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Author
Language
English
Description
Henrietta and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Hen is an illustrator, works nearby, and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. When they meet the neighbors next door, she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband's office shelf: a sports trophy exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Hen has long had been obsessed with...
Author
Publisher
Centennial Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Modern Fashion Illustration is a how-to book that offers step-by-step the art of fashion illustration, and how to promote it in today's world of social media. It also includes a collection of whimsical fashion illustrations by the author, featuring illustrations waiting to be colored in by novices and practiced illustrators alike.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss. Give grief a chance. Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years--ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thoughts later, she's just starting to get the hang of this widow thing. She can now get her two girls to school, show up to work, and...
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a visual survey of Lois Ehlert's artistic career that reflects on her parents' support, her early creative experiments, and her behind-the-scenes book-making processes.
10) Fun/no fun
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
The author recalls events in his childhood and divides them into two important categories.
Author
Publisher
3DTotal Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Wander into the immersive illustrated universe of Beatrice Blue. Filled with playful characters, enchanting natural scenery, and captivating narratives, Beatrice's designs will appeal to everyones inner child. Her fantastic use of vibrant color and luminous finishes give her imaginative scenes life and vigor, while her expressive texturing techniques embellish her already intricately detailed works further, to create designs with depth and integrity....
13) Dean
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dean is an illustrator whose unwillingness to deal with the recent death of his mother means escaping his hometown of New York for an interview with an ad agency in Los Angeles. His retired engineer dad Robert takes a more regimented approach to grief, including putting the family home up for sale. Both father and son set out on their own paths to find a new normal as unexpected circumstances and potential new love interests threaten to thwart all...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As an artist creatively incorporates her slipups into a drawing, readers see the ways in which 'mistakes' can provide inspiration and opportunity, and reveal that both the art and artist are works-in-progress"--
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
Presents the life of the influential illustrator and author, including her childhood, her love of drawing, her family's internment during World War II, and her groundbreaking work in children's literature.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Continuing their efforts in the ever-expanding treehouse, Andy and Terry tackle the mystery of their missing publisher, Mr. Bignose, whose disappearance has made completing their next book rather difficult.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side - the Communist side - of the Iron Curtain. Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sis shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Andy and Terry are once again inviting readers to come hang out with them in their astonishing 39-story treehouse (it used to be 13 stories, then 26 stories, but they keep expanding). And this year they will have even more time to jump on the world's highest trampoline, toast marshmallows in an active volcano, swim in the chocolate waterfall, pet baby dinosaurs, and go head-to-trunk with the Trunkinator, since Terry has created the greatest invention...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quick! If you don't move fast, you're going to miss him -- there he goes-- Randolph Caldecott, future famous illustrator. His sketchbook is full of hurly-burly; wild weather, frisky animals and people so sprightly they can barely hold on to the pages. But in the 1850s, there are no children's books like that. Not yet. Many are published, but their pictures look still, full of pretty poses and cluttered scenery. No one has imagined how much fun an...
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