If you liked SCRIBBLE or BLUE CHICKEN...BOOKS ABOUT ART AND IMAGINATIONMartha Alexander, Blackboard BearHenrik Drescher, Simon's Book Polly Dunbar, Flyaway Katie Sue Heap, Danny's Drawing Book Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and other "Harold" books Randell Jarrell and Maurice Sendak, The Bat-Poet Elisa Kleven, The Paper Princess, The Puddle Pail Ruth Krauss and Maurice Sendak, A Very Special House, I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue Andrew Larsen and Irene Luxbacher, The Imaginary Garden Peter McCarty, Jeremy Draws a Monster Hanoch Piven, My Dog is As Smelly As Dirty Socks Jacques Prevert and Mordicai Gerstein, How to Paint the Portrait of a Bird Elizabeth Rusch and Chad Cameron, A Day With No Crayons Sam Swope and Barry Root, The Araboolies of Liberty Street Bill Thomson, Chalk Natasha Wing, Go to Bed, Monster! MORE ART-RELATED STORIESAllan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman, The PencilAndrea Beaty and David Roberts, Iggy Peck Architect Karen Beaumont and David Catrow, I Ain't Goona Paint No More! Margaret Wise Brown, Alice and Martin Provensen, The Color Kittens Kate Duke, The Tale of Pip and Squeak Don Freeman, The Chalk Box Story Leo Lionni, Little Blue and Little Yellow, Matthew's Dream, Frederick Peter Reynolds, Ish, The Dot Alan Say, Emma's Rug Lore Segal and Boris Kulikov, Morris the Artist Chris Van Allsburg, Bad Day at Riverbend David Wiesner, Art & Max STORIES ABOUT ART AND ARTISTSJon Agee, The Incredible Painting of Felix ClousseauQuint Buchholz, The Collector of Moments Barbara Cooney, Hattie and the Wild Waves Tomie dePaola, Mr. Satie and the Great Art Contest Olivier Dunrea, The Painter Who Loved Chickens Arthur Geisert, The Etcher's Studio Wendy Kesselman and Barbara Cooney, Emma Kathryn Lasky and Ora Eitan, Georgia Rises STORIES ABOUT ART AND MUSEUMSBlue Balliett and Brett Helquist, Chasing VermeerDon Freeman, Norman the Doorman E. L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Barbara Lehman, Museum Trip Jan Mark and Richard Holland, The Museum Book (nonfiction) Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, Seen Art? Nancy Elizabeth Wallace and Linda Friedlaender, Look! Look! Look! OTHER BOOKS TO SPARK THE IMAGINATIONRemy Charlip, Arm in ArmBeatrice de Regniers and Maurice Sendak, What Can You Do With a Shoe? Beatrice de Regniers and Irene Haas, A Little House of Your Own Stephen Gammell, Will's Mammoth, Mudkin Mini Grey, Traction Man Is Here! Mary Ann and Norman Hoberman, What Jim Knew Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson, How to Make an Earthquake Suzy Lee, Wave, Shadow, Mirror Alice McLerran and Barbara Cooney, Roxaboxen Antoinette Portis, Not a Box Maurice Sendak, The Sign on Rosie's Door Dr. Seuss, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street Uri Shulevitz, The Moon in My Room Peter Sis, Madlenka, Madlenka's Dog Chris Van Allsburg, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick David Wiesner, Sector 7 Richard Wilbur, Opposites, More Opposites, and a few Differences, and with Henrik Drescher, Runaway Opposites Marjorie Winslow and Erik Blegvad, Mud Pies and Other Recipes: A Cookbook for Dolls Cybčle Young, A Few Blocks This list is always evolving - please come back again! |