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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Jerry Pinkney, Caldecott Medal winner and illustrator of over one hundred books, tells the story of his childhood and how he developed his artistic talent"--
8) Dr. Seuss
Author
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the childhood, education, and career of children's author, Dr. Seuss.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to Rockwell Land," writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided twentieth-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Norman Rockwell mingled fact and fiction in paintings that reflected the, we-the-people, communitarian ideals of American democracy. Freckled Boy Scouts and their mutts,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of renowned children's author and illustrator Ted Geisel, popularly known as Dr. Seuss, focusing on his childhood and youth in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What is it like to be an artist? There does inspiration come from? (And where do you look for your art supplies?) One of the most gifted picture book makers of our time, Lois Ehlert opens the doors to her studio and to her life and shares her thoughts about her creative process in this moving, intimate, and inspiring glimpse into her colorful world."--Book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life and work of author and illustrator Edward Gorey and explains how, although it took him a long time to achieve all he wanted to do, he sought to be himself throughout his life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan's premier cartoonist. Drawing from memory is Allen Say's own story of his path to becoming the renowned artist he is today. Shunned by his father, who didn't understand his son's artistic leanings, Allen was embraced by Noro Shinpei, Japan's leading cartoonist and the man he came to love as...
15) We were brothers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Preeminent illustrator Barry Moser renders the memories of his youth--in luminous drawings and candid prose--on his quest to understand how he and his identically raised brother could have become such very different men. Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents, were raised in the same small Tennessee community where they slept in the same bedroom and were poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Brush up your knowledge on popular American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell with this exciting Who Was? title. Norman Rockwell often painted what he saw around him in nostalgic and humorous ways. After hearing President Franklin Roosevelt's address to Congress in 1943, he was inspired to create paintings that described the principles for universal rights: four paintings that portray iconic images of the American experience. Over the course...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019].
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gyo Fujikawa's iconic children's books are beloved all over the world. Now it's time for Gyo's story to be told--a story of artistic talent that refused to be constrained by rules or expectations. Growing up quiet and lonely at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gyo learned from her relatives the ways in which both women and Japanese people lacked opportunity. Her teachers and family believed in her and sent her to art school and later Japan,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It seems entirely fitting that Maurice Sendak was born on the same day that Mickey Mouse first made his cartoon debut--June 10, 1928. Sendak was crazy about cartoons and comic books, and at twelve, after seeing Disney's Fantasia, he decided that he was going to become an illustrator. His love of childrens books began early: often sick and confined to bed, little Maurice read and read and read. Though many of his own stories were light and funny,...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim? But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and determination that gets people through the most troubled of...
20) Sometimes you have to lie: the life and times of Louise Fitzhugh, renegade author of Harriet the spy
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh's masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation after generation of readers. Harriet is an erratic, unsentimental, and endearing prototype--someone very like the woman who dreamed her up, author and artist Louise Fitzhugh. Born in 1928, Fitzhugh was raised in a wealthy home in segregated Memphis, and she escaped her cloistered world and made a beeline...
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