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Anna at the Museum by Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert

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Anna at the Museum by Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert

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"“Lively and expressive, the digital pictures complement the empathetic, well-structured story, but it’s the visual interplay between illustrated characters and museum art that makes this such an engaging, enjoyable picture book.” Booklist

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Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos by Monica Brown

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Frida Kahlo and her Animalitos by Monica Brown

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Educator Guide

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Great book for teaching about "What is Art?" The book has many images of what art is - and shows students that art can be anywhere from outside in nature to sculpture in a park.

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Classroom Guide
"Just make a mark and see where it takes you." This sage advice, offered by her intuitive, intelligent teacher, sets our young heroine on a journey of self-expression, artistic experimentation, and success."  - School Library Journal
Dot Lesson Inspiration

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A Splash of Red the Life and Art of Horace Pippin

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A Splash of Red the Life and Art of Horace Pippin

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The Noisy Paint Box The colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art by Barb Rosenstock

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The Noisy Paint Box The colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art by Barb Rosenstock

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Nek Chand, a Changing India, and a Hidden World of Art by Barb Rosenstock
Video of sculpture and mosaic walls
Art Lesson Plans

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The World is Not a Rectangle a Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid by Jeanette Winter

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The World is Not a Rectangle a Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid by Jeanette Winter

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Architecture and how the natural world influences design. Female, Muslim artist.

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Maya Lin Artist-Architect of Light and Lines by Jeanne Walker Harvey

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Maya Lin Artist-Architect of Light and Lines by Jeanne Walker Harvey

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The Inspirational Story of Maya Lin. The artist-architect who designed the Vietnam veterans memorial.
Video of Vietnam Memorial
Video Art 21

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Magic Trash a story of Tyree Guyton and His Art by J.H. Shapiro

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Magic Trash a story of Tyree Guyton and His Art by J.H. Shapiro

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Video of the Heidelberg Project
"A call to find and make beauty wherever we are." Booklist

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The Pot that Juan Built by Nancy Andrews-Goebel

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The Pot that Juan Built by Nancy Andrews-Goebel

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Video of Juan Quezada
"This informational picture book about the renowned potter Juan Quezada of Mexico is organized in a three-part structure. The basic story of how Quezada makes his pots according to the ancient methods of the Casas Grandes people is told in the form of a rhyme based on “The House That Jack Built.” Narrative prose accompanies each verse with more detailed information about the process. Photographs and additional information about the artist and the community in which he lives and works are given at the end of the book." -Lee&Low Books

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Through the Window views of Marc Chagall's life and art by Barb Rosenstock

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Through the Window views of Marc Chagall's life and art by Barb Rosenstock

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Lesson Plan Idea from Dick Blick

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Dave the Potter Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill

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Dave the Potter Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill

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Video Dave the Potter

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Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

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Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

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Jackson Pollock in action
K-2 Lesson Plan

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The Wonderful Towers of Watts by Patricia Zelver

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The Wonderful Towers of Watts by Patricia Zelver

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Video of Watts Towers 1995
Video of Watts Towers 2016

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Faith Ringgold Video and Tar Beach
Ringgold recounts the dream adventure of eight-year-old Cassie Louise Lightfoot, who flies above her apartment-building rooftop, the 'tar beach' of the title, looking down on 1939 Harlem. Part autobiographical, part fictional, this allegorical tale sparkles with symbolic and historical references central to African-American culture. The spectacular artwork resonates with color and texture. Children will delight in the universal dream of mastering one's world by flying over it. A practical and stunningly beautiful book.

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Funny Bones Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh

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Funny Bones Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh

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Educator Guide with Lesson
Teaching ideas and review

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Between the Lines how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the Art Gallery

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Between the Lines how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the Art Gallery

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Classroom Resources

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Discussion Guide
Interview with Georgia O'Keeffe
"Jen Bryant's story of Georgia O'Keeffe celebrates the famous artist's fascination with natural shapes, "common objects" and her unusual way of looking at the world."

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Follow the line that runs through this picture book and turns itself into all kinds of things: the waves above an octopus, the veins in a leaf, the wrappings curling around a mummy, and the trapping threads of a spiderweb. Candace Whitman's catchy rhyming text is brought to life by a host of creepy critters from first-time illustrator Steve Wilson.

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Steve Wilson (Illustrator)

Comprehension Strategy: Synthesizing

Art Modality: Creative Movement

Here's the gist of this monstrously fun book written by Candace Whitman. Through the book runs a line of rhyming text that reads with a steady beat. A glittery purple line that wiggles, bends, curves, and curls also runs through the book. The illustrator, Steve Wilson, tops the book off with creepy and creepy and creative creatures. Sound inviting? You and your little ones won't be able to take your hands off of it!

streamers, colorful scarves or fabric ribbons

Lines that Wiggle is a great book for teaching rhyming and for teaching lines in art. But after moving my finger along the glittery purple line that runs through this picture book, I wanted to move more! I can say with a giggle, Lines that Wiggle is a great book for teaching movement, too!

For a sneak peek inside, visit the publisher's site here.

I have three suggestions for using the book to help little learners discover how their own bodies are "lines that can wiggle" through the space around them.

Simply stop after you read each page. Ask the children to explore how they can make their own bodies wiggle like the line on that page. Can they move just their arms like the line? How about just their legs? Can they move their feet to make an imaginary line on the floor that looks like the line on the page?

Provide your listeners with lengths of ribbon or scarves. Again stop after you read each page. Encourage the youngsters to make matching lines with their ribbons on the floor. Can they make the same lines in the air with their ribbons?

If you have the space, use painter's masking tape to create all kinds of lines on the floor-wavy, straight, curvy, crisscrossed and more! Encourage the children to move along the lines. How would you move on lines that scurry? How would you move on lines that twist? How would you move on lines that sway? Of course, adding music makes the movement more fun.

So what does this book have to do with reading and how does it lead to a better understanding of synthesis?! Well, remember that line that runs through the whole book? It changes and represents different things, but it's always there.

When you read you constantly gain information and so your thinking changes. Every new piece of information changes your understanding and helps you make meaning. In the end, you put it all together to make big conclusions.

When explaining your thinking about this book to your students, you might say, "At first I thought the line would be a snake and then I thought it would be a bridge. Then I saw that the line could be whiskers or even waves. At the end of the book, I realized that lines can change. When lines change they can remind me of different things."

Synthesis combines new information with old information to create new meaning. Your thinking out loud might sound like this, "At first I just looked at the line, but then I looked at the other art around it. When I looked at everything, my thinking changed. The head at the end of this line, made the curvy line a snake."

You can use this book conversation to start your little readers on a path to understanding how to synthesize, or you can use the book with older readers as a simple reminder of how synthesizing works.

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Steve Wilson (Illustrator) Comprehension Strategy: Synthesizing Art Modality: Creative Movement Here's the gist of this monstrously fun book written by Candace Whitman. Through the book runs a line of rhyming text that reads with a steady beat. A glittery purple line that wiggles, bends, curves, and curls also runs through the book.