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Action Jackson
Watercolors and text invite the reader to accompany Jackson Pollock as he creates his famous 1950 action painting, "Lavender Mist." A biography and bibliography expand information about the artist.
| Author: Greenberg, Jan & Jordan, Sandra |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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All I See
Shy Charlie admires the painter Gregory's work from afar. The child and adult become friends, and Gregory teaches Charlie about painting, senses, imagination, and friendship.
Black Cat
A black cat explores an urban neighborhood. The stunning illustrations are a combination of painting and photography.
| Author: Myers, Christopher |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Blues Singers, The
The author tells his granddaughter about the origin of blues in America through 10 stories of great blues musicians he and his father had known. The interesting illustrations are done in a thick line, solid color style. A bibliography and a recording li
| Author: Lester, Julius |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Celebrate America in Poetry and Art
This is a collection of poetry (from more than 100 U.S. poets) and paintings, sculpture, drawings, photographs, and other works of art-- all from the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Biographical notes and an index conclude the vo
| Author: Panzer, Nora (Ed.) |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Chuck Close Up Close
This biography of the contemporary artist Chuck Close captures his inventiveness in text and vivid color photographs. An index of illustrations, an essay on portraits, a bibliography, and a list of museums that display the artist's work provide informati
| Author: Greenberg, Jan & Jordan, Sandra |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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City by Numbers
This is a wordless book containing photographs of numerals in the context of shapes and objects found in a city.
| Author: Johnson, Stephen T. |
HSE Descriptors:
math
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Diego Bigger Than Life
These short poems tell about the life of the artist Diego Rivera, his various loves, his life as an artist, and his unusual and intense life. It ends with a one paragraph comment by his last wife, Frida Kahlo. Back matter includes a wealth of information
| Author: Bernier-Grand |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Edward Hopper: Painter of Light and Shadow
Illustrated with beautifully reproduced paintings in chronological order, this biography of the American artist Edward Hopper recounts his long, productive life, his marriage to artist Josephine Nivison, and his friendships with fellow artists Guy Pene du
| Author: Rubin, Susan Goldman |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau, The
Whimsical biography of Henri Rousseau illustrated in his style of artwork. This book recounts the life of Henri Rousseau who began painting at the age of 41. Spare text written in lovely figurative language - "the flowers open their hearts" and "He holds
| Author: Markel, Michelle |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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First Impressions: Andrew Wyeth
This biography of Andrew Wyeth is the result of a friendship between the artist and the author. The book focuses on Wyeth's early years, his relationship with his father, and his development as an artist. One reader felt that the vocabulary might be diff
| Author: Meryman, Richard |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Georgia's Bones
A biography of the artist Georgia O'Keeffe's early years "celebrates her fascination with natural shapes and 'common objects'" with rich text and color-saturated illustrations. The text explores themes including creativity, diversity (in ways of being in
| Author: Bryant, Jen |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Ghost Train
Choon-yi is a painter. Her father leaves China for North America to find work. He asks her to join him, but when she arrives, she discovers that he has been killed on the job. As Choon-yi tries to paint the train, a ghostly presence beckons her.
Heart to Heart
Contemporary poets create poems in response to works of modern American art. The reproductions are very good. An introduction, index, and biographical notes of poets and artists extend the scope of the book. The poems are uneven in quality.
| Author: Greenberg, Jan (Ed.) |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Ingenious Mr. Peale, The
Charles Wilson Peale's life spanned the early years of the U.S. He was an acclaimed portrait painter, established the first portrait gallery in the nation, and pursued other interests, such as natural history.
| Author: Wilson, Janet |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Jabberwocky
With his wonderfully bright, energetic illustrations, Myers gives an Mezo-American and African American spin to the famous poem by Lewis Carroll.
Myer's "reimagined" famous poem by Carroll is unique in its contemporary setting of an urban street basket
| Author: Carroll, Lewis |
HSE Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Kamishibai Man
The award-winning author/illustrator introduces the reader to the street storytelling tradition of the "paper-theater man" from his Japanese childhood.
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The
This book is a wonderfully retold version of the classic story by Washington Irving. The illustrations contribute to the mysterious mood.
| Author: Irving, Washington |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Michelangelo
Diane Stanley has added to her work another stunningly visual biography filled with details of the painter, sculptor, and poet Michelangelo Buonarroti. The beautiful illustrations refer to famous works and people of the times. The book includes a useful
| Author: Stanley, Diane |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Mona Lisa, The
Archival prints, photographs, reproductions, and illustrations introduce the reader to the world and life of Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa.
| Author: Kalz, Jill |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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My Dream of Martin Luther King
The author tells the story of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. as a dream with King as a young boy suffering the injustices of segregation. Her strong paintings, more somber than her usual colorful quilt-like illustrations, give a solidity to the drea
| Author: Ringgold, Faith |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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My Name is Georgia
This simple biography of Georgia O'Keefe describes how she was true to her life-long goal of being an artist and how she gained inspiration for her paintings from the natural world around her.
| Author: Winter, Jeanette |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Romeo and Juliet, (The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of)
This lively, clear, prose retelling of
Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet follows the original story very closely.
| Author: Shakespeare, William |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Second Mrs. Gioconda
In this fictionalized story of real people, Salai, servant of Leonardo da Vinci, tells how the painting of Mrs. Gioconda known as the Mona Lisa came to be painted.
| Author: Konigsburg, E. L. |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Skytree
The 14 paintings of a tree in various seasons and weather are accompanied by one or two descriptive sentences and a question that connects art with science.
| Author: Locker, Thomas |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Starting Home
The full title of this book is Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter. Lyons tells the story of Pippin, an African-American painter, with a style that makes compelling reading. The book chronicles the effect of history and the impac
| Author: Lyons, Mary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence
This biography of the African American painter Jacob Lawrence, known for his series Migration and Toussaint L'Ouverture, is illustrated by the painter's works.
| Author: Duggleby, John |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Toussaint L'Ouverture
The author wrote the biography of Haiti's hero, Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the fight for liberation from France and Spain, to accompany Jacob Lawrence's paintings.
| Author: Myers, Walter Dean |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Tree Is Older Than You Are, The
In the introduction to this bilingual anthology of Mexican poems, stories, and paintings, the author relates her personal ties to Mexico, "a country of spirit where miracles feel close and possible." The author also includes an excellent index and a Note
| Author: Nye, Naomi (comp.) |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Unlikely Pairs
Contrasting works of art are juxtaposed on facing pages to stimulate thought and discussion. The author includes brief biographies of the artists.
| Author: Raczka, Bob |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Wake Up Our Souls
Well-written biographies and stunning reproductions of the work of approximately 30 African American artists introduce us to painters, photographers, and mixed-media artists born between 1830 and the present. The design makes the book beautiful and the e
| Author: Bolden, Tonya |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Walking the Log
The author paints scenes and reminisces about her childhood in the turn of the century South. The books contains information about daily life, work (especially picking cotton), childhood games, family values, and the author's life long interest in art.
Water Dance
Told in a first-person poetic narrative with illustrations that elicit emotional responses, water is described in its many forms--clouds, mist, rainbows, and rivers. A separate section explains the water cycle.
| Author: Locker, Thomas |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Women of the Bible
Each of these seventeen stories of courageous women from both the Old and New Testaments is accompanied by a famous painting. The author includes a pictorial index of each entire painting and its museum location.
| Author: Armstrong, Carole |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Yellow House, The
During a brief few months of their productive artistic years, the painters Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin shared a yellow house in Arles, in southern France. The book is illustrated with their works of art and the illustrator's researched depiction of
| Author: Rubin, Susan |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Yellowstone Moran:Painting the American West
A true story of how Tom Moran traded his city environs for a chance to join a scientific expedition to Yellowstone and record the wonders in his paintings. The author researched letters and journals of the famous Hayden expedition into Yellowstone Nationa
| Author: Judge, Lita |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies | language arts - writing
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Art and Photography > art > painting > trompe l'oeil
Artistic Trickery
An engaging and thorough explanation of trompe l'oeil art and how it works.
Delicious: The Life & Art of Wayne Thiebaud
Illustrated with lush reproductions of his paintings, this biography of painter Wayne Theibaud recounting his long career and late fame, is a story of perseverance from outside the mainstream. Thiebaud paints "things that have been overlooked," like food,
| Author: Rubin, Susan Goldman |
HSE Descriptors:
literature and arts
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Delicious: The Life & Art of Wayne Thiebaud
Illustrated with lush reproductions of his paintings, this biography of painter Wayne Theibaud recounting his long career and late fame, is a story of perseverance from outside the mainstream. Thiebaud paints "things that have been overlooked," like food,
| Author: Rubin, Susan Goldman |
HSE Descriptors:
literature and arts
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