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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Flattered at first that all the other fairies and sparrow men want her to paint their portraits, Bess soon begins to feel overwhelmed and tries to find a way to return to the kind of painting she really wants to do.
7) Art dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Mona Woofa is stolen from the Dogopolis Museum of Art, a mysterious character who calls himself Art Dog tracks down and captures the thieves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pigasso, a talented pig, and Mootisse, an artistic bull, live across the road from one another, but when conflicts arise they build fences that ultimately become modern art masterpieces. Includes biographies of the real-life artists, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
12) Matthew's dream
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A visit to an art museum inspires a young mouse to become a painter.
14) Willy's pictures
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Willy the chimp paints pictures that are tributes to art masterpieces, including "American Gothic," "The Birth of Venus," and "Mona Lisa."
15) All I see
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child paints with an artist friend who sees and paints only whales.
16) Me, Frida
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
17) The orange shoes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delly Porter enjoys the feel of soft dirt beneath her feet as she walks to and from school, but after a classmate makes her feel ashamed of having no shoes she learns that her parents and others, too, see value in things that do not cost money.
18) A carousel tale
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Given the responsibility of taking care of his favorite carousel dog's tail during the winter, Ernst, the young blue crocodile, finds, as time goes by, that he cannot resist his own artistic urges.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A bear explains how he became an artist, first experimenting with simple drawings, then continuing to draw both things around him and things in his imagination. Includes tips for drawing.