Cho, Lian
Summary: "Presenting Olive Chen! The most magnificent and brilliant artist in the whole wide world! Her parents are also artists--serious artists--who paint prim, proper, perfect shapes. They know Olive has the talent to follow in their footsteps. But Olive likes to smear, splatter, splash, and even lick. With a brush in each hand, Olive cascades through town with her friends in tow, painting what she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHOOrtiz, Raquel M.
Summary: Young Sofi enters a New York City community garden and finds a half-painted mural. It's full of big, leafy plants in blue and yellow, and a vibrant emerald green color appears where the two colors meet. As Sofi runs her fingers over the image, she is suddenly transported to a beautiful place with plants just like the ones on the wall! Sofi finds herself in the Dominican Republic, where she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG ORTMack, Jeff
Summary: When a little girl asks meaningful questions about creating art, her questions are answered by a diverse group of artists throughout time and history. This inspiring picture book about making art doubles as an introduction to the multifaceted and global history of art. Making both art history and art creation accessible to all, "Time to Make Art" nourishes creativity, encouraging young readers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MACOlson, Jessica S.
Summary: She's a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies, which is a talent some would kidnap, blackmail, and worse to control. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone. But one frigid night, the governor's wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra is she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC OLSAnders, Charlie Jane
Summary: "From the international bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders, comes Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, the sequel to Victories Greater Than Death in the thrilling adventure Unstoppable series. They'll do anything to be the people they were meant to be - even journey into the heart of evil. Rachael Townsend is the first artist ever to leave Earth and journey out into...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TOR Teen, Tom Doherty Associates 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANDTaylor, Laini
Summary: "Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TAYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TAYHenry, Marguerite
Summary: With his beloved black cat Grimalkin as his constant companion, the young Quaker boy Benjamin West discovers and develops his talent as an artist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HENMillner, Denene
Summary: In this heartfelt story about self-discovery, Miles Morales, aka Spider-Man, explores what it means to be an artist, a superhero and himself as he befriends a fellow artist who helps him learn more about his Puerto Rican heritage and the importance of his neighborhood.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2023