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Blackhope enigma trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Fourteeen-year-old Sunni, her stepbrother Dean, and an art-student friend trace the footsteps of a labyrinth built in Blackhope Tower by a mysterious and brilliant sixteenth-century artist, and suddenly find themselves trapped inside his enchanted painting, trying desperately to get out.
4) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Language
English
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When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
5) Glowrushes
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Language
English
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Description
Artist Sakumat and eleven-year-old chronically ill Madurer forge a beautiful friendship as the painter brings landscapes to life in the boy's windowless rooms.
Author
Series
Jellybeans books (Laura Numeroff) volume 4
Language
English
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The Jelly Beans--four friends who like to do such different things as paint, play soccer, read, and dance--paint a mural on an outside wall of Mrs. Petunia Dinkley-Sneezer's candy shop that depicts them each doing what they love best.
Author
Series
Blackhope enigma trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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"During what seems like an ordinary museum visit, a tour guide lures Sunni and Blaise through a painted doorway-and they discover they've stepped into eighteenth-century London. When they realize their "tour guide" will do anything to get more information about what Sunni and Blaise know about magical paintings, they attempt to flee and encounter body snatchers, art thieves and forgers"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Language
English
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Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s, and how his art, banned by the Nazi regime, inspired young Eric Carle.
13) Bear's picture
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A bear continues to paint what he likes despite criticism from two passing gentlemen.
16) Mouse and Hippo
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Hippo saves Mouse after he falls into the lake, Mouse paints his new friend's portrait to thank him"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
Seventh-grader Claudia Miravista loves art, but socially she is always the odd girl out--but on a trip to the local art museum she sees a boy in a painting, who moves from painting to painting, and soon she embarks on an adventure behind the canvas, determined to free the boy Pim from the artistic prison he has endured for over three hundred years.
18) Art & Max
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Max wants to be an artist like Arthur, but his first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the two friends on a whirlwind trip through various media, with unexpected consequences.
20) Mouse paint
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Language
English
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Three white mice discover jars of red, blue, and yellow paint and explore the world of color. Board book.
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