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What Makes a Rainbow by Betty Ann Schwartz

BB Sch9

A rainbow of ribbons magically appears when you open the pages.

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The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

BB P48, and E P48

The book follows a rainbow fish with iridescent scales who is the most beautiful fish in the whole ocean. But since he is also vain and proud, he becomes more lonely over time.

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The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

E D33

When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.

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Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert

E Eh5

A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden.

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Banksy: Graffitied Walls and Wasn't Sorry by Fausto Gilberti

E 751.73 G37

A clever, quirky biography of a leading contemporary artist for children. Banksy is a world-famous graffiti artist who secretly spray paints pictures on streets and walls while no one is watching! His works are often about politics, war, and other important things, but he also likes to paint rats. Rats scurry around and hide, often creating a bit of a stir, just like he does! Millions of people know his work but no one really knows who Bansky is - his true identity is a secret.

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Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by Monica Brown

E 759.972 B81

Before Frida Kahlo was a famous artist, she was a little girl who lived in La Casa Azul with many pets. Through her life, she had two spider monkeys, a parrot, three dogs, two turkeys, an eagle, a black cat, and a fawn, and each of them inspired her art. Some of them even show up in her self portraits!

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Magic trash: a Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art by J.H. Shapiro

E 92 G99

Paintbrush in hand, Tyree transforms his decaying, crime-ridden neighbourhood into the Heidelberg Project, an interactive sculpture park. This story spans from Tyree Guyton's childhood in 1950's Detroit to his efforts to heal his community through art in the 1980s.

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Whirligigs: the wondrous windmills of Vollis Simpson's imagination by Carole Boston Weatherfod

E 730.92 W37

Vollis Simpson was a man with a curious mind--always eager to know how things worked and how to fix them. Growing up on a farm in North Carolina, he loved to tinker with machines. And when he served in the Army Air Corps during WWII, Vollis kept right on tinkering. His ingenuity allowed him to build things no one would have thought to create from scraps--a washing machine out of airplane parts and a motorcycle out of a bike. After the war, his passion for metal creations picked up speed--turning into a whirlwind of windmills as far as the eye could see. Luckily, Vollis's fanciful and colorful windmills have been preserved at a park in Wilson, NC, where visitors can behold his magnificent and towering creations forever whizzing in the air.

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Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and Wasn’t Sorry by Fausto Gilberti

E 709.2 G37

Yayoi Kusama dreamed of becoming a famous artist. Day and night she painted hundreds of dots onto large canvases. The dots soon came off her pictures and ended up on her dresses, tables, and walls. But she wasn't sorry! An inspiring story about one of the most popular contemporary artists in the world.

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Scribble Stones by Diane Alber

E AL1

This story starts off with a little stone who thinks he will be become something amazing but then soon realizes he had become a dull paper weight. He's on a mission to become something greater and in the process meets scribble and splatter and they all come up a creative way to bring joy to thousands of people. If you loved I'm Not just a Scribble... then you'll love Scribble Stones! And you'll even be inspired to make some scribble stones of your own!

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