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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss. Give grief a chance. Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years--ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thoughts later, she's just starting to get the hang of this widow thing. She can now get her two girls to school, show up to work, and...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Filled with insights that span Helen Oxenbury's life -- from her early childhood through a career in children's books that started in the 1960s and is still going strong today -- here is an exquisitely designed and thoroughly entertaining celebration of one of the finest illustrators of our time."--
Author
Series
Treehouse series volume 6
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Andy and Terry must get past their differences to save their story ideas from a herd of spy cows.
Author
Series
Treehouse series volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Andy and Terry try to solve the mystery of: What happened to Mr. Big Nose? After all, it's hard to turn in your next book when your publisher has vanished.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Andy and Terry live in a 117-story treehouse. (It used to be a 104-story treehouse, but it just keeps growing!) It now has a pajama-party room, a water-ski park filled with flesh-eating piranhas, an Underpants Museum, a giant-fighting-robot arena, and the Door of Doom (don't open it or you'll be COMPLETELY and UTTERLY DOOMED!). For as long as Andy and Terry have been writing books together, Andy has always been the narrator and Terry has always...
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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When Miss Greer asks each child in the class to write a story, second-grader Aaron, who loves to draw but struggles with reading, creates a story using pictures.
10) Storymakers
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Storymakers features internationally known Australian writers and illustrators of children's books. The series is designed to develop children's awareness of how books are conceived and created, and to encourage a love of books and reading. Each film in the series highlights different aspects of the process of creating a book. A Film Australia National Interest Program. 2011 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Executive Producer: Janet Bell....
13) Beyond the page
Author
Publisher
Tate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The author is one of the best known illustrators in the world, creating iconic characters for amongst others Russell Hoban, Joan Aiken, Michael Rosen, and Roald Dahl. In this title, he writes about his projects and describes his working processes, his collaborators, his travels, and his various projects and commissions.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Step-By-Step Guide to Becoming the Next Big Fashion Illustrator. You've got a knack for designing--now what? With the help of successful fashion artist Holly Nichols, you'll learn how to take your passion to a new level. Elevate your designs with guides for drawing figures of all sizes, tools for digital creation and lessons on how to market your art to the right audiences on social media...With Holly's advice and expert tips, it's easier than...
Author
Publisher
Centennial Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Modern Fashion Illustration is a how-to book that offers step-by-step the art of fashion illustration, and how to promote it in today's world of social media. It also includes a collection of whimsical fashion illustrations by the author, featuring illustrations waiting to be colored in by novices and practiced illustrators alike.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
As soon as Wanda learned to draw, she dreamed of becoming an artist. But when her father died, a teenaged Wanda put her family before her art, taking care of her ailing mother and six siblings. When she knew that her family could support themselves, she finally attained her dream, winning a scholarship to a famous art school in New York City.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known--in the late 1940s, no less--to traipse around...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"As an artist creatively incorporates her slipups into a drawing, readers see the ways in which 'mistakes' can provide inspiration and opportunity, and reveal that both the art and artist are works-in-progress"--
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