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Blue Grass Boy: The Story of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass Music
A highly recommended purchase for most libraries, especially those in Kentucky and the surrounding states where the music was born, and in any collections looking to bolster their juvenile biography section.
The Secret Kingdom: Nek Chand, a Changing India, and a Hidden World of Art
A captivating biographical narrative, this book is an ideal choice for expanding any visual arts—focused picture book collection.
Vincent Can't Sleep: Van Gogh Paints the Night Sky
This versatile book is both an outstanding choice for reading aloud or for introducing art history concepts to young audiences.
Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth
A solid introduction to one of America's most celebrated photographers.
Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention
This delightful adaptation would make a great addition to public and school library collections.
Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention
K-Gr 3—Before he was an inventor, before he was a statesman, before he was a printer, Franklin was a young son of a soapmaker with big ideas and a penchant for swimming in the Charles River of Boston...
The Streak: How Joe DiMaggio Became America's Hero
Gr 2–5—Placed within the historical context of the last perfect baseball summer before America's involvement in World War II, Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak of 1941 becomes even more impressive...
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art
Gr 1–4—A stirring tribute to a prominent pioneer of abstract art, Paintbox follows the life of Russian-born artist Vasya Kandinsky from his childhood to adulthood, conveying the astounding imagery conjured in the painter's (probably genetic) condition, synesthesia, which caused sensory fields to collide in explosions that enabled him, for example, to hear colors...
Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library
Gr 1–5—It is no small feat to entertain children in a book about loving books (an increasingly crowded shelf), but this duo succeeds admirably through well-chosen facts, staggering statistics, an interactive text, and humor...
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