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BOOKS ABOUT ART AND IMAGINATION

Martha Alexander, Blackboard Bear
Henrik Drescher, Simon's Book
Polly Dunbar, Flyaway Katie
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
Jacques Prevert and Mordicai Gerstein, How to Paint the Portrait of a Bird
Sam Swope and Barry Root, The Araboolies of Liberty Street
Natasha Wing, Go to Bed, Monster!


MORE ART-RELATED STORIES

Andrea Beaty and David Roberts, Iggy Peck Architect
Margaret Wise Brown, Alice and Martin Provensen, The Color Kittens
Don Freeman, The Chalk Box Story
Leo Lionni, Little Blue and Little Yellow, Matthew's Dream, Frederick
Barbara McClintock, The Fantastic Drawings of Danielle
Hanoch Piven, My Dog is As Smelly As Dirty Socks
Peter Reynolds, Ish, The Dot
Alan Say, Emma's Rug
Lore Segal and Boris Kulikov, Morris the Artist
Ellen Stoll Walsh, Mouse Paint


STORIES ABOUT ART AND ARTISTS

Jon Agee, The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau
Quint 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


STORIES ABOUT ART AND MUSEUMS

Blue Balliett and Brett Helquist, Chasing Vermeer
Don 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 IMAGINATION

Remy Charlip, Arm in Arm
Beatrice de Regniers and Maurice Sendak, What Can You Do With a Shoe?
Beatrice de Regniers and Irene Haas, A Little House of Your Own
Mini Grey, Traction Man Is Here!
Mary Ann and Norman Hoberman, What Jim Knew
Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson, How to Make an Earthquake
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



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Deborah Freedman is the author and illustrator of SCRIBBLE, Knopf, May 2007.

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