Amazing Art!

This week at our Summer Library Club we are getting creative and making art! We're hosting some workshops inspired by Hervé Tullet's work and his book Art Workshops for Children. Hervé Tullet is the artist behind the great picture books Press Here, Mix it Up!, and so many more! Some of the art we make this week will be featured permanently in our meeting room, so come by and check it out!

In honor of our week of Amazing Art, here are some amazing books for kids about art and artists.



Artists

Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg
Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois by Amy Novesky
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours by Duncan Tonatiuh
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Weatherford Boston
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse by Patricia MacLachlan
My Name is Georgia: A Portrait by Jeanette Winter
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippen by Melissa Sweet
Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian by Margarita Engle
Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales

Stories About Creating & Making

Art & Max by David Wiesner
Beautiful Oops by Barney Salzberg
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
The Dot by Peter Reynolds
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Nico Draws a Feeling by Bob Raczka


How To & Inspiring Ideas

Art World Series by Kate Riggs
The Artful Parent: Simple Ways to Fill Your Family's Life with Art and Creativity by Jean Van't Hul
The Big Book of Art by Hervé Tullet
Busting Boredom with Art Projects by Mary Boone
Checkerboard How To Library by Anders Hanson
How to Draw Books - Nonfiction 740