Susan Goldman Rubin

Soup cans, dollar bills, movie stars, paint by numbers, is it art? Andy Warhol took ordinary objects from daily life and transformed them into enormous paintings using silk screens, acrylic paints, projections, and a team of helpers to achieve his goal. He was the leader of the American art movement known as Pop, short for "popular culture and changed the way we think of art.

Explores the life and work of the nineteenth-century French artist who devoted most of his artwork to the subject of ballet.

The story of Irena Sendler, a diminutive Polish social worker who helped spirit more than 400 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

Rubin and Himmelman present the only picture-book biography of infamous Jean Laffite, a real-life pirate who played a huge role in the history of the United States and the War of 1812. Full color.

The story of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and her exotic bohemian life.

"Diego Rivera offers young readers unique insight into the life and artwork of the famous Mexican painter and muralist. The book follows Rivera's career, looking at his influences and tracing the evolution of his style. His work often called attention to the culture and struggles of the Mexican working class. Believing that art should be for the people, he created public murals in both the United States and Mexico, examples of which are included."--Amazon.com....

Beatrice Alexander's family ran a doll hospital in their home in New York's Lower East Side, where she grew to love fixing and making dolls. Beatrice dreamed of becoming an artist, but her family couldn't afford to send her to sculpting school. She never stopped dreaming, and when World War I broke out, she came up with the idea to make dolls modeled after nurses to support the war effort and help keep children happy -- but they needed to be unbreakable...

Twelve diverse actors, directors, writers, editors, designers, and producers fought against sexism, racism and prejudice to have their voices heard and changed the industry forever.

"Mary Seacole was called to nurse the sick and wounded from bedside to battlefield. Nothing would stand in her way." -- Back cover.