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Author
Series
Sisters of the salt volume 2
Description
When the youngest Thaumas sister, Verity, leaves Salann for the lush Bloem on a painting commission, she quickly discovers that the intriguing Laurent family isn't as perfect as they appear.
5) The portrait
Author
Formats
Description
A collector unearths the find of a lifetime: an eighteenth-century portrait of a man uncannily like him.
While wandering through a Paris auction house, avid collector Pierre-François Chaumont is stunned to discover the eighteenth-century portrait of an unknown man who looks just like him.
Much to his delight, Chaumont's bid for the work is successful, but back at home his jaded wife and circle of friends are unable to see the resemblance.
Chaumont...
9) My baby
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill ; 24 cm.
Description
As she waits for her baby to be born, a young African woman describes some of the sights and sounds of her Mali homeland as she creates a beautiful bogolan cloth for her child.
10) Purple is best
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Description
Sue's blue paint and Fred's red paint get mixed together and create purple, the best color of all.
11) Mouse paint
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 19 x 23 cm.
Formats
Description
Three white mice discover jars of red, blue, and yellow paint and explore the world of color.
12) Still-life stew
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Rosa grows a variety of bright and beautiful vegetables, picks them, paints a picture, and then makes them into a tasty stew.
13) The icon thief
Author
Series
Icon thief novels volume 1
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Three people--an ambitious young art buyer, a criminal investigator tracking a killer, and a Russian thief--all try to track down a priceless painting by Marcel Duchamp, the most influential artist of the twentieth century.
14) Elsina's clouds
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
In South Africa, a Basotho girl paints designs on her house as a prayer to the ancestors for rain.
15) Rickshaw girl
Author
Formats
Description
In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.
16) Virginia Wolf
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.
Description
When her sister succumbs to a mood that makes the whole family feel topsy-turvy, Vanessa paints a wonderful imaginary place--a beautiful garden complete with a ladder and a swing--in a story loosely based on the writer Virginia Woolf and her artist sister, Vanessa Bell.
19) Art & Max
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
Max wants to be an artist like Arthur, but his first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the two friends on a whirlwind trip through various media, with unexpected consequences.
Author
Series
Jellybeans books (Laura Numeroff) volume 4
Formats
Description
The Jelly Beans--four friends who like to do such different things as paint, play soccer, read, and dance--paint a mural on an outside wall of Mrs. Petunia Dinkley-Sneezer's candy shop that depicts them each doing what they love best.
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