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Luckybug’s
Art Gallery

A four-page gallery story about an unexpected splash, a new idea and a painting made together.

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Luckybug mixes orange paint on a palette beneath the gallery's empty centre frame.
Page 1 of 4

Luckybug mixes a sunset orange on her palette for the gallery’s empty centre wall. She wants her first large painting to be perfect.

Quill-Berry holds Ted's portrait beside a sunset canvas as blue paint splashes across it.
Page 2 of 4

Quill-Berry carries over Ted’s portrait—and bumps the table. A blue splash lands across Luckybug’s glowing sky.

Luckybug, Quill-Berry and Flutter-Butter turn the blue splash into a river through a moonlit town.
Page 3 of 4

Luckybug nearly hides the canvas. Then Flutter-Butter says the splash looks like a river, so all three turn the smudge into a moonlit town.

Gallery visitors admire the finished river painting with Luckybug, Quill-Berry and Flutter-Butter.
Page 4 of 4

At the gallery opening, visitors point first to the blue river. Luckybug signs all three names because the accident became their shared idea.

The end · Great reading

What did the friends turn the blue splash into?

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A moonlit river.

What did Luckybug learn about mistakes?

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They can become new ideas.

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