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10 Books To Read AloudAugust 2015
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Mix it up!
by Hervé Tullet
Using no special effects other than the reader's imagination, simple directions lead the reader to experiment with mixing and changing colors on the printed page.
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Duck! Rabbit!
by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Two unseen characters argue about whether the creature they are looking at is a rabbit or a duck.
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I'm the best artist in the ocean
by Kevin Sherry
In addition to being able to squirt his own ink, a giant squid decides to demonstrate his most impressive talent by painting a one-of-a-kind masterpiece that is sure to impress all the other squids, sharks, and fish in the sea.
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The dot
by Peter Reynolds
Trying to make a point to her teacher that she has no artist talent, Vashti jabs the brush onto the canvas in a fit of anger, yet in doing so, Vashti sees something special and soon works with it--making her one crazy dot into a real work of art.
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I ain't gonna paint no more!
by Karen Beaumont
Excited with the art he has created on the walls, a young artist decides to continue on with his vibrant creations--soon painting the floors, ceiling, and himself in the process!
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Round trip
by Ann Jonas
Silhouettes illustrate a family's trip to a large city and their return trip home to the country.
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The art of Miss Chew
by Patricia Polacco
Deciding that she wants to be an artist after spending a summer with her artist grandmother, Trisha successfully gains acceptance into a special art class at school but is frustrated by a substitute teacher's claim that she is wasting her time.
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The Noisy Paint Box : The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art
by Barb Rosenstock
An exuberantly illustrated introduction to the early life of abstract painter Vasya [Wassily] Kadinsky describes how his creative life was profoundly shaped by a neurological condition called "synesthesia," which caused him to experienced colors as sounds, and sounds as colors.
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A Splash of Red : The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
by Jennifer Bryant
The creators of the Caldecott Honor-winning A River of Words present a sumptuously illustrated introduction to the life and work of artist Horace Pippin, describing his childhood love for drawing and the World War I injury that challenged his career.
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Masterpiece
by Elise Broach
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as a present for James, a human boy with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Dürer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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