It’s time to go outside with Ms. Simone’s art class and do your best impression of Impressionism. A dab here, a dab there, and voilà! All is going well…until the clouds move in.Suddenly, young Justine finds her beautiful view ruined, and she can’t think of what to do next. But her classmates Paris and Manet know a secret that will unlock her creativity again. With a little imagination and the magic word wackadoey.“The dreamed of him, and then—Hurray! Standing in front of them was Claude Mo...

After losing her brother, parents, and first love, alongside immigration, heartbreak, and divorce, Levy was repeatedly asked by life to begin again. Blending Kabbalah, psychology, neuroscience, and quantum physics, she reveals how grief becomes resilience, and pain becomes purpose. Blending emotional honesty with spiritual insight, Butterfly Bites explores the invisible threads that connect our souls, the signs that guide us through darkness, and the inner voice that leads us back to ourse...

This “luminescent” (Kirkus Reviews) story of anger and art, loss and redemption will appeal to fans of Lisa Graff’s Lost in the Sun and Vince Vawter’s Paperboy.NOMINATED FOR 16 STATE AWARDS!AN ALA NOTABLE BOOKAN ILA TEACHERS CHOICEA KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEARArthur T. Owens grabbed a brick and hurled it at the trash picker. Arthur had his reasons, and the brick hit the Junk Man in the arm, n...

Features an audio read-along! With a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices even the stubbornly uncreative among us to make a mark -- and follow where it takes us.Her teacher smiled. "Just make a mark and see where it takes you."Art class is over, but Vashti is sitting glued to her chair in front of a blank piece of paper. The words of her teacher are a gentle invitation to express herself. But Vashti...

Art, mystery, fun and friendship, combine in this illustrated middle grade series debut. Sixth grader Edmund Xavier Lonnrot, codename "Eddie Red," has a photographic memory and talent for drawing anything he sees. When the NYPD is stumped by a mastermind art thief, Eddie becomes their secret weapon to solve the case, drawing Eddie deeper into New York's famous Museum Mile and closer to a dangerous criminal group known as The Picasso Gang.With page-turning adventure and fun characte...

A visit to a private London museum takes a sinister turn when fifteen-year-old Sunni Forrest and her friend Blaise are lured through a painted doorway into the past. As a clandestine, eighteenth-century world of art thieves, forgers and bodysnatchers closes in on them, they must take their chances on the treacherous streets of the city. Can they evade their captors and keep an ancient secret from falling into the wrong hands? And will they find the key to unlock the only way home - before ...

Features an audio read-along! A creative spirit learns that thinking “ish-ly” is far more wonderful than “getting it right” in this gentle new fable from the creator of the award-winning picture book The Dot.Ramon loved to draw. Anytime. Anything. Anywhere.Drawing is what Ramon does. It¹s what makes him happy. But in one split second, all that changes. A single reckless remark by Ramon's older brother, Leon, turns Ramon's carefree ...

This book is a story . . . a story about Leland. He is in fourth grade and has not done well in school. He become acquainted with a Certified Zentangle Teacher, a CZT, and learn how to create beautiful artwork by drawing tangles. Zentangle is a focused method of drawing repetitive patterns to make tiles. Children as well as adults can learn to create these patterns by following along as Leland learns to draw these repetitive patterns called tangles. Some of the tangles Leland (and the read...

The remarkable hero of this book is Rom, a wombat. By chance he meets the sad Jenny, who dreams of being a ballet dancer. Her nasty classmates however won't let her.Rom joins forces with Miss Tiptoe, the driving force behind the Petrova School of Ballet.This formidable pair makes for a blistering 'finale'.

When a mysterious old oil lantern and a box of painted slides appear at Blackhope Tower, Sunni and Blaise are drawn back to the place where their adventures first began. On discovering that the slides conceal secrets about artist-magician Fausto Corvo, the pair find themselves caught up in a deadly pursuit. An old enemy is still tracking Corvo and he will stop at nothing to find him.Sunni and Blaise must fight to protect Corvo's secrets and rid themselves of Soranzo's evil threat o...

Filled with magic, mystery, miniatures, and adventure, the Sixty-Eight Rooms is the perfect series for fans of Chasing Vermeer, The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and The Dollpeople!Chicago sixth graders Ruthie and Jack think they’ve learned everything about the magic of the Art Institute’s Thorne Rooms. But the magic starts to act strangely when Ruthie and Jack discover two rings that are out of place—and out of time—and a portal th...

From 2015–2017 Children's Laureate and beloved author and illustrator Chris Riddell, 100 Hugs is a beautiful collection of illustrated hugs – from the owl embracing the pussycat, to two cuddling otters.This is the perfect gift for a loved one, or to cheer yourself up on a dark day when all you need is a hug.The one hundred beautiful and intricate illustrations from the three-times winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal includes a hug for every em...