Children's books about the arts: Recently received
This guide lists children's books and young adult literature about the arts and artists including the performing arts.
Recently received
Houses with a story: a dragon's den, a ghostly mansion, a library of lost books, and 30 more amazing places to explore by Seiji Yoshida; Jan Mitsuko Cash (Trans.)
Publication Date: 2023Ages 10 and up.
In Houses with a Story, more than 30 imaginative houses and the people who make them home offer unexpected worlds to wander through and explore.Before colors: where pigments and dyes come from by Annette Bay Pimentel; Madison Safer (Ill.)
Publication Date: 2023Ages 8-12. Gr.3-7.
Colors don't come out of nothing. They always start somewhere . . . With something . . . With someone.Sitti's bird: a Gaza story by Malak Mattar
Publication Date: 2024Ages 4-7; Gr.1-2.
Malak is a little girl who lives in Gaza with her parents. She goes to school, plays in the ocean, and visits Sitti's house on Fridays. One day while she is in school, bombings begin. She spends the next 50 days at home with her parents worrying and feeling scared, until one day she picks up her paintbrush.Holding her own: the exceptional life of Jackie Ormes by Traci N. Todd; Shannon Wright (Ill.)
Publication Date: 2023Ages 7-10; Gr.2-5; Coretta Scott King award, honor, 2024.
An evocative picture book biography about the prolific life of Jackie Ormes, whose groundbreaking cartoons became some of the first empowering depictions of Black women in America! Jackie Ormes made history. She was the first Black woman cartoonist to be nationally syndicated in the United States. She was also a journalist, fashionista, philanthropist, and activist, and she used her incredible talent and artistry to bring joy and hope to people everywhere.The artivist by Nikkolas Smith
Publication Date: 2023Lexile measure 540L; Ages 4-8; PrK-Gr.3.
When a young boy realizes the scope of inequities in the wider world, he's seized with the urge to do more. He decides to bring together the different parts of himself-the artist and the activist-to become. . . an Artivist. After his mural goes viral, he sets out to change the world one painting at a time.The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity by Nicholas Day; Brett Helquist (Ill.)
Publication Date: 2023Lexile measure 780; Ages 8-12; Gr.4-6.
A "witty thriller" for middle-grade readers about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world--and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all.
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