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The art of Eric Carle

Eric Carle · 127 pages

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Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art

Eric Carle, Mitsumasa Anno, Quentin Blake, Ashley Bryan, Nancy Ekholm Burkert, Tomie dePaola, Jane Dyer, Mordicai Gerstein, Robert Ingpen, Steven Kellogg, Leo Lionni, Petra Mathers, Wendell Minor, Barry Moser, Jerry Pinkney, Alice Provensen, Matthew Reinhart, Robert Sabuda, Maurice Sendak, Gennady S · 105 pages

Twenty-three illustrators of children's literature discuss their lives, inspirations, and creative backgrounds and present photographs of themselves and their work spaces along with examples of their illustrations.

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Bill Peet: An Autobiography

Bill Peet · 190 pages

The well-known author and illustrator relates the story of his life and work.

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Me, Frida

Amy Novesky · 32 pages

Artist Frida Kahlo finds her own voice and style when her famous husband, Diego Rivera, is commissioned to paint a mural in San Francisco, California, in the 1930s and she finds herself exploring the city on her own.

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Wall and Piece

Banksy · 207 pages

From the Publisher: Graffiti artist Banksy decorates streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cities throughout the world. His identity remains unknown but his work is witty, subversive and prolific. And now, he's put together the best of his work in a fully illustrated color volume.

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What It Is

Lynda Barry · 208 pages

***What It Is*** demonstrates a **tried-and-true creative method** that is playful, powerful and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or remember. Bursting with full-colour drawings, comics and collages, autobiographical sections and ***gentle creative guidance***, each page is an invigorating example of exactly ***what it is: 'The ordinary is extraordinary'.*** Lynda Barry e

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Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman

George Herriman, Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, Georgia Riley de Havenon · 224 pages

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How About Never—Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons

Bob Mankoff · 285 pages

"Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New YorkerPeople tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the

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Henri Cartier-Bresson Photo Poche

Photo Poche · 144 pages

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The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse

Patricia MacLachlan · 40 pages

If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures? Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by acclaimed author and Newbery Medal-winning Patricia MacLachlan and innovative illustrator Hadley Hoope

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The Noisy Paint Box

Barb Rosenstock · 33 pages

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmAD630L Lexile

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Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings

Rainer Metzger · 312 pages

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Henri's Scissors

Jeanette Winter · 36 pages

"When Henri Matisse was a boy, he drew pictures everywhere. And when he grew up, he became a famous artist whose paintings were beloved around the world. Them late in life, a serious illness confined Henri to just his bed and a wheelchair. But amazingly, from there he created some of his finest works , the enormous and breathtaking paper cut-outs."--Jacket flap.

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe · 134 pages

"Starting in the '20s - when Georgia was recognized as one of the most important protagonists of modernism in America - until his death, the artist and his works have attracted a great interest in the arts community and the American public. Despite the great gained recognition in America and Europe, only a few of his works have been exhibited to the European public. Artist and woman, Georgia O 'Ke

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Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery

David Attenborough, Susan Owens · 223 pages

Describes the methods by which selected European artists, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Mark Catesby, portrayed the natural world during the Age of Discovery.

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Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams

Diane Waldman · 152 pages

"Out of the fantasies that enriched a private, often reclusive life, Joseph Cornell created a "poetic theater of memory." His box constructions and collages feature such characters as a Medici princess, birds, ballerinas, and movie stars. Using the seemingly commonplace materials that he collected in five-and-dime stores and other shops in New York City - cordial glasses, mirrors, marbles, and ma

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Dalí

Robert Descharnes, Gilles Neret · 224 pages

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The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin

Bernard Meehan · 95 pages

The Book of Kells is the most spectacular of a group of manuscripts created in Ireland and northern Britain between the seventh and tenth centuries, a period when Irish monasticism was in the vanguard of Christian culture. Its earliest history remains controversial but it was in the keeping of the monastery of Kells, Co. Meath, for most of the Middle Ages - hence its name - and has been in the lib

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