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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:49:33 -0500
Let's start our topic for the first part of April: Art and Artists in Literature for Children and Teens.
Among the brand new books we are already excited about here at the CCBC are "Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies" by Nell Beram and Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky (Amulet/Abrams, 2013), which offers young artists and musicians and, yes, Beatles fans, such insight into the vision and approach of this inspiring, groundbreaking artist; and "Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet" by Andrea Cheng (Lee and Low, 2013), a moving journey in poems through the life a man for whom reading was dangerous knowledge. There is something incredibly powerful to me in the idea of Dave carving something so forbidden into his pots.
I'll add our current book of the week, "A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin" by Jen Bryant, with illustrations by Melissa Sweet (Alfred K. Knopf, 2013), to that list of new books we've especially enjoyed
I'm actually quite amazed at the number and quality of books on this topic. And just when I'm thinking "Oh, another book about _____,"
someone comes along and does something wholly new, like Duncan Tonatiuh's "Diego Rivera: His World and Ours," from 2011, which was such a fresh way of familiarizing young reader's with Rivera's work and getting them to think more deeply about it. (Diego Rivera has been the subject of quite a few singular books, actually!)
What are some of your favorite books about art and artists (but not music and musicians—we'll talk about them in the second half of April!)
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
608/262-9503 schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Wed 03 Apr 2013 03:49:33 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:49:33 -0500
Let's start our topic for the first part of April: Art and Artists in Literature for Children and Teens.
Among the brand new books we are already excited about here at the CCBC are "Yoko Ono: Collector of Skies" by Nell Beram and Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky (Amulet/Abrams, 2013), which offers young artists and musicians and, yes, Beatles fans, such insight into the vision and approach of this inspiring, groundbreaking artist; and "Etched in Clay: The Life of Dave, Enslaved Potter and Poet" by Andrea Cheng (Lee and Low, 2013), a moving journey in poems through the life a man for whom reading was dangerous knowledge. There is something incredibly powerful to me in the idea of Dave carving something so forbidden into his pots.
I'll add our current book of the week, "A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin" by Jen Bryant, with illustrations by Melissa Sweet (Alfred K. Knopf, 2013), to that list of new books we've especially enjoyed
I'm actually quite amazed at the number and quality of books on this topic. And just when I'm thinking "Oh, another book about _____,"
someone comes along and does something wholly new, like Duncan Tonatiuh's "Diego Rivera: His World and Ours," from 2011, which was such a fresh way of familiarizing young reader's with Rivera's work and getting them to think more deeply about it. (Diego Rivera has been the subject of quite a few singular books, actually!)
What are some of your favorite books about art and artists (but not music and musicians—we'll talk about them in the second half of April!)
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
608/262-9503 schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu
www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Wed 03 Apr 2013 03:49:33 PM CDT
