I’ve got some adorable books to share with you! These three charming picture books that are a great way to keep kids engaged and learning whether at home or school this fall.
How to Spot an Artist
by Danielle Krysa
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Grade Level : Preschool – 3
Hardcover : 40 pages
Publisher : Prestel Junior; Illustrated Edition (September 1, 2020)
Reading level : 4 – 8 years
How to Spot an Artist is a vividly illustrated, funny, and endlessly encouraging picture book “about being an artist, even when someone tells you not to be.”
With over 200,000 Instagram followers, Danielle Krysa has helped a lot of people overcome the fear that they “aren’t creative.” In How to Spot an Aritist, Krysa wants to reach readers as kids before their inner critics arrive on the scene. She uses her characteristic playfulness, lively illustrations, and humor to help kids overcome negativity about their artistic endeavors–and helps them redefine what being an artist means.
Every page delivers encouragement to the kid who thinks artists all live in cities, or that art has to look like something familiar. Or that painting and drawing are the only way to make art. In a world that drastically undervalues creative freedom, Krysa’s whimsical paintings and collages joyfully proclaim that art is essential and that artists are everywhere.
Additionally, a page at the back of the book includes ideas for art projects–because who wants fewer art projects? Nobody!
Purchase: Amazon
Danielle Krysa
DANIELLE KRYSA is the creator of The Jealous Curator, a highly influential contemporary art blog. Her previous books include Creative Block, Collage, Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk, and A Big Important Art Book–Now With Women. She lives in British Columbia, Canada.
Follow Danielle:
IG: @thejealouscurator
Twitter: @jealouscurator
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thejealouscurator
School
by Britta Teckentrup
Grade Level : 3 – 7
Hardcover : 128 pages
Publisher : Prestel Junior; Illustrated Edition (September 15, 2020)
Reading level : 8 – 12 years
School takes readers inside a busy school to follow different students through their day–in class, during free time, at lunch, and through swimming lessons.
We come across a variety of faces and expressions that reflect the enormous range of emotions and experiences that each school day brings. There are arguments and hurt feelings, encouraging hugs and deeply felt smiles. The gentle text explores issues that we’ve all encountered–bullying and loneliness as well as friendship and achievement.
While the school in this book could exist anywhere, young readers will recognize themselves in this beautifully and compassionately wrought story by bestselling author Britta Teckentrup, whose warm and wonderfully detailed illustrations are a marvelous portal to feelings, facts, and fun.
Purchase: Amazon
Britta Teckentrup
BRITTA TECKENTRUP is the author and illustrator of dozens of well-loved books for children, including My Little Book of Big Questions, The Egg, and Birds and Their Feathers (all by Prestel). She lives in Berlin, Germany.
Follow Britta:
IG: @britta_teckentrup
Twitter: @BTeckentrup
This Thing Called Life
by Christian Borstlap
Hardcover : 56 pages
Publisher : Prestel Junior; Illustrated Edition (October 6, 2020)
Grade Level : Preschool – 3
Reading level : 4 – 8 years
This Thing Called Life shows the many shapes and forms life takes all around us, from the smallest specks of life to the largest creatures.
What is life? It’s constantly moving, growing, reproducing, and dying. It’s happening now, all the time, and it’s everywhere around us. From little helicopter seed pods that float through the air to blue whales in the ocean, the world is filled with all different types of odd and familiar kinds of life.
This whimsical picture book helps young readers see the connections between all living things.
Author and illustrator Christian Borstlap’s furry, feathery, smooth, and spiky creatures crawl, eat, growl, fly, and interact with one another. While most of his creations are imaginary animals, they all depict real things that organisms must do to survive and thrive. Bold and quirky illustrations tug at kids’ imaginations and help demonstrate complex concepts that can be hard to put into words.
The book leaves lots of room for discussion and for new discoveries with each reading.
Purchase: Amazon
Christian Borstlap
CHRISTIAN BORSTLAP is an illustrator, designer, art director, and founder of Part of a Bigger Plan, a creative agency whose clients include Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Apple, Vogue, Rijksmuseum, and many others. This is his first picture book.
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