Bob Raczka

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Rhyming text and illustrations portray the sights and sounds of autumn, from "rakers, leapers, and corn crop reapers" to "trickers, treaters, and turkey eaters."

3) Summer wonders

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Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the sights and sounds of summer, from days of diving and swimming to nights of stargazing and fireflies.

4) Snowy, blowy winter

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Illustrations and simple rhyming text portray winter activities, from snowman-building, sledding, and sitting by a fire to feeding birds.

5) Guyku: a year of haiku for boys

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Raczka and Reynolds present a humorous haiku collection perfect for guys (big and small) that celebrates outdoor fun throughout the seasons.

6) Beware!

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"Using words made up of only the five letters "beware," a little bear named Abe and a bee named Bree, who have been warned about each other, compete for the flowers in their meadow, but end up as friends willing to put aside their differences and share"--Provided by publisher.

7) Spring things

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A. Whitman

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2007

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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

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Winter melts into spring with the sights and sounds of hopping and skipping, sowing and mowing, and blading and lemonading.

8) Name that style: all about isms in art

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Bob Raczka's art adventures

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Millbrook Press

Pub. Date

c2009

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32 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

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Introduces different movements in art, including naturalism, romanticism, pointillism, and photorealism, discussing when each movement was popular, its important characteristics, and famous painters who used each style.

9) Nico dibuja un sentimiento

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Oceano Travesía

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2018.

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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

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"No one understands the abstract pictures that Niko draws until a new friend sees the thought and feeling within his shapes and forms"--

10) Lemonade, and other poems squeezed from a single word

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Roaring Brook Press

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2011

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43 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

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Part anagram, part rebus, part riddle--this brand new poetic form turns word puzzles into poetry.

11) Wet cement: a mix of concrete poems

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Roaring Brook Press

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2016.

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43 pages ; 24 cm

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Poetry Month for Kids

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"Who says words need to be concrete? This collection shapes poems in surprising and delightful ways.Concrete poetry is a perennially popular poetic form because they are fun to look at. But by using the arrangement of the words on the page to convey the meaning of the poem, concrete or shape poems are also easy to write! From the author of the incredibly inventive Lemonade: And Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word comes another clever collection...

12) You are a story

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Holiday House

Pub. Date

[2023]

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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

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"An empowering reflection on the many things we are and the ways we relate to the world"--

13) Unlikely pairs: fun with famous works of art

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Millbrook Press

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c2006

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31 p. : col. ill ; 27 cm.

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Invites the reader to look at twenty-six paintings from different eras and styles presented in pairs. Each pair lends itself to a story the reader can discover by looking at the paintings in a new way.

14) Before they were famous: how seven artists got their start

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Bob Raczka's art adventures

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Millbrook Press

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c2011

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32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

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This book focuses on the childhood works of seven artists, with lots of interesting facts about who or what influenced them when they were children and young adults. Three works from each artist are included, showing how their style developed and changed over time.

15) Fall mixed up

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Carolrhoda Books

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c2011

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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

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The delights of autumn are described in mixed-up verse and illustrations, and the reader is challenged to uncover the errors.

16) More than meets the eye: seeing art with all five senses

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Millbrook Press

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c2003

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32 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

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Provides images of paintings and new, sensory ways to experience them, such as tasting the milk in Vermeer's "The Milkmaid," hearing the music in Tanner's "The Banjo Lesson," or feeling the fur in da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine."

17) The Power of Snow

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Two flakes play. / Four flakes sashay. / Eight flakes twirl. / Sixteen flakes swirl. Experience a snowstorm that brings together playful rhyming verse with the power of exponential growth! Bob Raczka's clever rhymes come to life in the dynamic illustrations of Bryony Clarkson. The artwork includes the precise number of snowflakes mentioned in the text, starting with 2 and ending with an astonishing 16,384!

18) Like Best Friends

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Boy meets girl in this story of reluctant friendship that introduces young readers to the concept of similes. Summer drags, like a book that starts out good, then isn't. The boy is bored, like a frog waiting for a fly to buzz by. So the boy hops on his bike and heads for the playground, where he finds a girl on a swing who beckons him to join her. At first, the boy is reluctant, but soon they are having fun like best friends, like characters in a...

19) Presidential Misadventures: Poems That Poke Fun at the Man in Charge

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A spoonful of poetry helps the mockery go down! This collection of presidential poems is historical and hysterical. The clerihew is a simple poetic form specifically invented to make fun of famous people-and who is more famous than the misbehaving presidents of the United States? Here are forty-three poems teasing the commander-in-chief that are fun to read aloud and even more fun to write yourself. From the author of the incredibly inventive Lemonade:...

20) The Poet of Piney Woods

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