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2) Horse
Author
Language
English
Description
"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
3) Glowrushes
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Artist Sakumat and eleven-year-old chronically ill Madurer forge a beautiful friendship as the painter brings landscapes to life in the boy's windowless rooms.
4) One boy
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A boy creates ten paintings in this counting book that also explores the relationship of words within words. Features die-cut pages.
6) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
Author
Language
English
Description
Rosamunde Pilcher's beloved, #1 New York Times-bestselling novel is the captivating story of one family -- mothers and daughters, husbands and lovers -- and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations. At the end of a long and useful life, Penelope Keeling's prized possession is "The Shell Seekers," painted by her father, and symbolizing her unconventional life, from bohemian childhood to wartime romance. When...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
11) Painting Pepette
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Paris, after Josette and her stuffed-animal rabbit Pepette encounter famous artists who try and paint Pepette's portrait, Josette realizes she is the perfect person to do the painting.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A teen activist and artistic prodigy presents this picture book inspired by his own life that follows a boy who has trouble with words until he learns, with paintbrush in hand, that finding your voice isn't about being perfect--it's about being true to yourself.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Penny Purple taught us how to be a purple person. A person who finds common ground with others while celebrating what makes them unique! Now Penny and her pals will put their purple skills into action in their very favorite place--their classroom! How do you make a purple school? It will take curiosity, sharing, hard work, and lots of laughs"--
16) The artist
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A brave little artist goes on an epic adventure to share her creativity with the world, adding color and life to a drab, gray city.
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