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Summary: Prep school teacher Jack Marcus meets his match in Dina Delsanto, an abstract painter and new teacher on campus. He challenges her to a war between words and pictures, and in the process, sparks an unlikely romance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Words 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOR RATED PG-13

Jenkins, Peter

Summary: Photographic record of the author's two-year trip around the Gulf Coast, from the Florida Keys to the Texas/Mexico border, with stories about some of the people he met and places he visited along the way. Companion piece to the author's book, Along the edge of America.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rutledge Hill Press 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 976 JEN

Monet, Claude

Summary: Presents paintings of Claude Monet, accompanied by phrases in the painter's own words, edited to form a simple rhyme that runs through the text.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MON

Selznick, Brian.

Summary: Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2011

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SEL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEL

Mirren, Helen.

Summary: An illustrated account of the life and career of the esteemed actress traces her Russian ancestry and early life through her numerous achievements in a variety of performance venues.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MIRREN, HELEN MIR

Dickson, Paul.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File Publications 1986

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027.73 DIC

Gogh, Vincent van

Summary: Combines van Gogh's paintings with his own words, describing each work of art and introducing young readers to the concept of color.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.9492 VAN

Katzenstein, Jason

Summary: Visually engaging illustrations and comic text by the New Yorker cartoonist describe his life struggle with OCD and daily efforts to feel comfortable in the world and carve out a less-limited life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.852 KAT

Newman, Melissa

Summary: An invitation to the private world of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, one of America's most iconic couples, in a lavishly illustrated oversize photo book affectionately curated by their daughter Melissa Newman. Their love story is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman became not only movie stars and stage actors, but also artistic collaborators, political activists,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious/Little, Brown and Company 2023

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Gloeckner, Phoebe

Summary: The turbulent life of a teenage girl portrayed through diary entries and comic strips.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLO

Selznick, Brian.

Summary: When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

2 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SEL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION SEL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC Sel

Gansworth, Eric

Summary: "The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GAN

Metselaar, Menno.

Summary: Photos of the famous diary, school pictures, and the rooms in which she lived with her family while hiding from the Nazis for two years are compiled in this moving biography about the short life and enduring spirit of this young girl and talented writer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Pr. 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.5318 MET

Contents: I witnessed the end of the world! / Kurt Busiek.--The hydra and the lion / Mike Mignola.--A tropical horror / William Hope Hodgson.--The weave a lover.--Arvid Nelson.--The horror beneath / Leah Moore & John Reppion.--Hidden / Scott Allie.--A dog and his boy / Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2003

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAR

Peters, Jeffrey Edward.

Summary: "Divides the creative writing process into five simple steps, from inspiration to publishable story, and includes in-depth treatment of the graphic novel genre with writing prompts"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2013

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808.3 PET

Laskas, Jeanne Marie

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LAS

Summary: This anthology, featuring such top artists as Tony Millionaire, Mike Mignola, and Jill Thompson, has predictable appeal. However, the images chosen for the cover and the book design, which evoke the Dark Ages, belie the range, depth, complexity, originality, and ambition of this remarkably modern compendium. The eight substantial horror tales include cartoon witches from Macbeth, a "Hellboy"...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAR

De Coteau Orie, Sandra.

Summary: Pictures and words pay homage to the Oneida Indians' view of the cycle of spring.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1995

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Abel, Jessica.

Summary: A course on comic creation--for college classes or for independent study--that centers on storytelling and concludes with making a finished comic. With chapters on lettering, story structure, and panel layout, the fifteen lessons offered--each complete with homework, extra-credit activities and supplementary reading suggestions--provide a solid introduction for people interested in making their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2008

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.5 Abe

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.51 ABE

Updike, John.

Summary: In this posthumous collection of John Updike's art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed "Just Looking "(1989) and "Still Looking" (2005), readers are again treated to "remarkably elegant essays" ("Newsday") in which "the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a deep understanding of the art emerges" ("The New York Times Book Review"). " Always...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 Updike

Fisher Price

Summary: Introduces the letters of the alphabet in pictures and words associated with school.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1998

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC FIS

Summary: "Reprints complete comic book and comic strip stories, most of which are being reprinted here for the first time since their initial publication"--jacket note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NAD

Lichtenstein, Roy

Contents: Perfect pictures / Robert Fitzpatrick -- The misanthrope manqué : through a glass lightly / Dorothy Lichtenstein -- Framing George / Leo Castelli -- Words and pictures / Cassandra Lozano -- Roy / Sidney B. Felsen -- Plates -- The Interior prints.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 Lichtenstein

Morris, Ting.

Summary: Discusses the everyday arts and crafts of ancient Egypt, covering such specialties as painting, sculpture, pottery, and gemstones, along with instructions for young readers for making an amulet, a mummy case, a wall painting, and a scarab seal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Smart Apple Media 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 MOR

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