Hugo Marston, head of security for the U.S. Embassy in Paris, puts his life in danger when he investigates the murder of a celebrated artist, all the while fending off an assassin looking to settle an old score against him.
Hugo Marston accompanies his boss, US Ambassador J. Bradford Taylor, to the first night of an art exhibition in Montmartre, Paris. Hugo is less than happy about going until he finds out that the sculptures on display...

Housekeeper Amelia Bedelia wreaks havoc when she volunteers to help out at the school science fair.

A work created on the occasion of the Edward Hopper exhibition Musee Cantini, Marseilles, June 23-Sept. 24, 1989. Originally published Marseille: Musee Cantini, 1989. Includes bibliographical references (p.113).

Mean Mrs. Green says that everyone has to invent something for the school science fair. But everyone would rather invent a way to get out of it! Hubie can't decide on what he's going to do. He thinks all the good inventions have been done already. And all of his friends have figured out what they are going to do. He tries to decide between cloning himself or building a laugh machine. After a bad dream about cloning, he decides to build a laugh machine....

'Art, my dear boy,' said Mr Askern, 'especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock of our art . . .' He broke off, staring at the woman in front of him. Her face seemed to lose all definition and her skin turned an unnatural shade of putty-coloured grey. 'Art,' she said, her voice scarcely more than a whisper. 'Art! Oh my God, art!' She swayed dangerously. Jack leapt forward, catching her as she fell. Jack Haldean expected Lythewell...

"Kate's school is having their first-ever STEM Night and the prizes are incredible! Kate is determined to win and comes up with the perfect experiment. But as she and her best friend, Birdie, start preparing, they find that Kate's project keeps getting messed up. Will Kate be able to use her science know-how to find out who is behind the STEM night sabotage? And will she fix her project before it's too late?"--

"Jane Prescott is taking a break from her duties as lady's maid for a week, and plans to begin it with attending the hottest and most scandalous show in town: the opening of an art exhibition, showcasing the cubists, that is shocking New York City. 1913 is also the fiftieth anniversary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation speech, and the city's great and good are determined to celebrate in style. Dolly Rutherford, heiress to the glamorous Rutherford's...

Along with his comments about the thirty-six Sunday pages he chose for the exhibit, Watterson reflects on the cartoon from the perspective of six years, and provides insight into his life as a syndicated cartoonist.

After winning the science fair with the giant robot she has built, a little girl realizes that there is a major problem.

"Sam is working on making a clay dinosaur for the school art show and sale when the clay suddenly comes to life and attacks him, a sure sign that once again Orson Eerie, whose spirit inhabits the school, is up to something--and it is up to Sam, Antonio, and Lucy, to discover how a self-portrait of Orson figures into his evil plan." --