When Pigasso Met Mootisse

by Nina Laden

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Books for the Young

Ages 5-7. Unless children know about Picasso and Matisse and their famous feud, they won't get the parody here (Pigasso is a pig with definite cubist leanings who feuds with Mootisse, a bull who paints like 'a wild beast')-but that's okay. They'll like the loud, bright pictures that demand to be looked at and also the interesting contrast in the way Laden distinguishes the two rivals and their particular art styles.

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 Bijou, Bonbon & Beau : The Kittens Who Danced for Degas
by Joan Sweeney, Leslie Wu (Illustrator)
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Amazon.com ~ "On a blustery day long ago, a weary cat crossed a bridge over the river Seine in Paris. All afternoon, she had been searching for a warm place." So begins Bijou, Bonbon & Beau: The Kittens Who Danced for Degas
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Art Dog
by Thacher Hurd, Thatcher Hurd

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Arthur Dog, guard at Dogopolis Museum of Art and ardent fan of Leonardo Dog Vinci, leads a quiet life--except when the moon is full. On those nights something happens to Arthur. His eyes grow bright and his fur seems to glisten... and soon he is hatted and masked and out on the streets painting secret masterpieces.
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Child's Book of Art
by Lucy Micklethwait
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From Booklist , January 15, 1994
Ages 6-9. Micklethwait expands the idea she used so successfully in her I Spy Two Eyes: Numbers in Art in this combination concept and word book. The layout is spacious, and the reproductions are beautiful, with some large enough to be used effectively in class. Heavy on Western art, the selection also includes a sampling of work from Asian and other cultures, and while there could have been more contemporary examples, the works pictured still range widely--from a Greek vase painting and a detail from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling (no fig leaves, thank you) to paintings by modernist David Hockney. The pictures are grouped to illustrate broad subjects or concepts--work, boats, play, opposites, numbers--and each illustration is accompanied by a key word or phrase to guide the child who's looking at it. Although kids will see a rabbit instead of a "hare" and a turtle instead of a "tortoise," the word (the words aren't all "first words" in the traditional sense) and picture combinations work well. It's the opportunity to see paintings so different in technique side by side that is the book's crowning feature. The juxtaposition gives kids a wonderful chance to begin discovering their likes and dislikes as well as to see the many and beautiful ways art has evolved in other places and other times. Stephanie Zvirin
Copyright© 1994, American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Bunnies in My Head
by Tricia Tusa, M. D. Anderson

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Diane Stanley, author of children's books
The children's pictures are truly wonderful, full of charm and fancy. Tusa brings them all together perfectly with her hilarious paintings and a text that tells us that she, too, was once a child and will always be an artist.
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April Wilson's Magpie Magic : A Tale of Colorful Mischief

by April Wilson

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In this wordless picture book, a child's hands open a packet of colored pencils and get down to work drawing a magpie that is visible through a window.

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All I See
by Cynthia Rylant, Peter Catalanotto (Illustrator)

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"A dreamy piece about a young boy's awakening to artistic vision through his friendship with a lakeside painter. . . . The developing relationship parallels Charlie's inner process of getting to know the private, creative part of himself. . . . This is romantic, but not sentimental. It is eloquently done, and the whole--words and pictures--speaks and lingers."--School Library Journal, starred review. Full color.
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