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Making Picture Books
Author Libby Gleeson
Illustrator
Publisher Scholastic Australia
Price $29.99
This is a book about the making of picture books, written from the point of view of the writer and the illustrator.
It takes you from the first idea for a story, through the planning and writing, through revision, editing, illustrating, design and production until there is a book in your hands. |
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there you go - camel
Author Jenepher Svendsen
Illustrator
Publisher Lothian Books
Price $39.95
Welcome back to the exuberant world of children's art, where there's a scarecrow who swallowed a cabbage, a cat who lays eggs, and a ladder you can climb to hang the washing on the sun.
In There You Go Camel, Jenepher Svensden shares her vibrant collection of young children's art work, gathered during 25 years of kindergarten teaching. |
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Animals - a First Art Book
Author Lucy Micklethwait
Illustrator
Publisher Frances Lincoln
Price $24.95
Here are 18 exciting pictures showing animals with simple words used to describe them, painted by artists such as Renoir, Hokusai and Andy Warhol, a perfect introduction to art for the very young. |
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Frida
Author Jonah Winter
Illustrator Ana Juan
Publisher Arthur A Levine Book
Price $32.95
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico in 1907. This is the story of how she learnt to paint, how painting saved her life, and why her paintings are like no one else's.
Like Frida's art, it is a work of the imagination,
but it is also true. |
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How Are You Peeling?
Author Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers
Illustrator
Publisher Published by Scholastic Press
Price $26.95
How are you feeling?
This is a book that asks all the right questions...
and leaves you feeling great no matter what the answers are... |
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Awesome! - Australian Art for Contemporary Kids
Author By Laura Murray Cree
Illustrator
Publisher Published by Craftsman House
Price $45.00
Magical paintings and fantastic video stills.
Unreal plastic blow-ups and intricate models.
Weird and wonderful photographs. Grass art. Art about secrets, wishes and dreams. Art that remembers. Art for life now. |
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Dali and the Path of Dreams
Author Written by Anna Obiols
Illustrator Subi
Publisher Published by Francis Lincoln Children`s Books
Price $24.95
Once upon a time there was a little boy whose name was Salvador, though everyone called him Salvi.
One afternoon Salvi is playing on the beach when he sees something gleaming in the water. It's a little key, a magic key to the drawer where Salvador Dali stores his dreams...
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the dot
Author Peter H Reynolds
Illustrator
Publisher Walker Books
Price $15.95
"Just make a mark and see where it takes you."
Vashti says she can't draw. Her teacher thinks she can. She knows there's a creative spirit in everyone, and where there's a dot, there's a way... |
