Synopsis: The creators of THE RUNAWAY DINNER and PREVIOUSLY team up to imagine the comical world that comes to life when a lonely pencil starts to draw. "One day that little pencil made a move, shivered slightly, quivered somewhat . . . and began to draw." Welcome back Banjo, the boy from THE RUNAWAY DINNER! Once a pencil draws him, there's no telling what will come next — a dog, a cat, a chase (of course), and a paintbrush to color in an ever-expanding…

Synopsis: Introduces great artists, their techniques and materials used through different projects. Includes sculpture, mosaic, caricature, abstraction, etc. 8-12 yrs.

Synopsis: Using well-known pieces of art as a starting point, readers learn about a variety of art techniques and materials from photomontage to portrait to collage. Kids are encouraged to learn more about them by producing their own work. Hands-on projects, using readily-available materials, help readers explore painting, drawing, sculpting, printing and many other media.

Synopsis: An introduction to painting which covers the works of noted artists.

Synopsis: This book explores the choices and attitudes of thirty different artists. It helps stimulate children's own creativity and imagination by asking them to wonder why artists create things in the way that they do. It explores the various ideas, meanings, roles and functions of art by looking at painting, sculpture, photography and prints and helps develop children's understanding of colour, form, texture and pattern.

Synopsis: Artists have so many clever ways of showing you new and different ways of seeing. How do they show high speed movement? What do they do to create 3D effects? How do they create portraits whose eyes follow you around the room? How do they make textures that you want to reach out and touch? This fifth book of an outstanding, award-winning series for children on art explores all the techniques used by artists to tease, puzzle or thrill you.…

Synopsis: Abbeville Kids expands its award-winning series of interactive, inquiry-based books designed to teach children about the world by looking at art, and about art by looking at the world. In How Artists See Work children can see how Patrick Desjarlait showed in one painting the many tasks that go into making maple syrup; how the Limbourg Brothers created the feeling of a hot July day on a medieval farm; how Jacob Lawrence used bright, bold colors…

Synopsis: Abbeville Kids expands its award-winning series of interactive, inquiry-based books designed to teach children about the world by looking at art, and about art by looking at the world. In "How Artists See Families", children can see how Carmen Lomas Garza captured the simple pleasure of a family eating watermelon on the front porch; how Kikugawa Eizan used curved lines to show the gracefulness with which a mother carries her young son; how John…

Synopsis: Mice visit a museum and admire famous works of art in the different galleries, each of which is devoted to a specific subject or theme, in a picture book that includes information about the paintings and where they may be found in real life.

Synopsis: Elmer, the patchwork elephant, has been a favorite of children around the world since the first book debuted in 1989. Elmer's Special Day is the latest book in this classic series. It's almost Elmer Day again for the elephants, and they are getting their colorful parade outfits ready. But in their excitement they are making an awful lot of noise and upsetting the other animals. So Elmer changes the rules and invites every single animal to join…

Synopsis: A classic fable about the search for identity, from Caldecott Honor winning picture book creator Leo Lionni.Pezzettino lives in a world in which everyone is big and does daring and wonderful things. But he is small, just a “little piece,” which is the meaning of pezzettino in Italian. “I must be a piece of somebody. I must belong to someone else,” he thinks. How Pezzettino learns that he belongs to no one but himself is the joyous and satisfying…

Synopsis: In 26 never-before-published short and wonderfully clever poems, Langston Hughes takes children through both the alphabet and the animal world. From Ape to Zebra--with bees, camels, fish, and even a unicorn in between--he paints a picture of each animal with just a few simple, but telling, words.

Synopsis: A House for Hermit Crab

Synopsis: Just add Ed Emberley's simple ''alphabet'' to your thumbprints and fingerprints, and you can create funny thumbprint faces, animals, and bugs, as well as colorful fingerprint pictures including frogs, trains, and flowers. Easy and fun, these books provide hours of art-full entertainment.

Synopsis: No mystery is too great for super-sleuth Cam Jansen and her amazing photographic memory! Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes...even to summer camp. Cam and her best friend, Eric, are spending three weeds at Camp Eagle Lake. It's a summer filled with swimming, sports, canoeing, making new friends, and...solving mysteries! It's sure to be a fun--and challenging--summer for Cam Jansen!  The Cam Jansen books are perfect for…

Synopsis: A picture book biography introduces the ideas and accomplishments of a gifted and influential speaker by using some of his own words to tell the story.