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The World Needs More Purple Schools by Kristen Bell

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The World Needs More Purple Schools by Kristen Bell

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Key Concepts from the Book:

Being a "Purple Person": A person who is kind, curious, empathetic, and unique.

Making a "Purple School": A place where everyone's different talents and ideas mix to create something special.

Core Ingredients: Curiosity, sharing, hard work, and laughter.

How it Works:
The book uses the metaphor of mixing colors (like purple) to show how different people and ideas come together to make something wonderful and unique in a school setting. It encourages students to ask questions, share, be silly, and work together to build a positive community.

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * It's back to school with Kristen Bell and Benjamin Hart! Learn how to paint your school purple with this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller The World Needs More Purple People.Penny Purple taught us how to be a purple person. A person who finds common ground with others while celebrating what makes them unique! Now Penny and her pals will put their purple skills into action in their very favorite place -- their classroom! How do you make a purple school? It will take curiosity, sharing, hard work, and lots of laughs!

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The World Needs More Purple Schools (My Purple World)

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Penny Purple taught us how to be a purple person. A person who finds common ground with others while celebrating what makes them unique! Now Penny and her pals will put their purple skills into action in their very favorite place -- their classroom! How do you make a purple school?

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Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream.

Encourage students to reimagine the colors of an everyday in image in a fun and unexpected way!

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Sonic and Amy Rose Growing Up / 30 LOL Surprise DIYs

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Every child has the ability to make a  difference

-Amanda Gorman (The Author)

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A young boy named Louis doesn't want his beloved older brother, Nico, to leave for the army. Nico can see the world from their home, he thinks, with their house, the river, and the "Parque de las Ardillas." However, while waiting for his brother's return, Luis's own world expands, and he learns to admire his Dominican neighborhood even more.

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Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas

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Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas

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Ablaze with Color | Jeanne Walker Harvey | Children's Book Author

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Ablaze with Color is a children's picture book biography of painter Alma Thomas

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This year we chose to recreate an illustration from Susan Hood’s The Last Straw, as she was visiting us! It is page 11 of her book recreated—- page 11 -ish. Check out Peter Reynold’s Ish to see what I mean! Great with all ages, especially K-2.

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written by Chingyen Liu and I-Tsun Chiang; Illustrated by Heidi Doll

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This picture book tells a fictionalized version of Yipei Huang's story. https://www.slj.com/review/woodpecker-girl

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Violet picks up forgotten scraps to create something beautiful.

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The Color Collector is a poignant story about newness, friendship, and common ground. When a boy notices the new girl picking up all manner of debris and litter on their walks home from school he wants to know why. So she shows him the huge mural she's created in her room that reminds her of the ...

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Armed with pencils, paints, dreams, and Grandma Addy's memories of how beautiful the neighborhood once was, Angel and others paint the big wall that had been cold, empty, and cheerless.

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Naomi has always loved her vibrant neighborhood but things are changing quickly so, inspired by Mr. Ray, she paints murals to preserve her favorite memories.

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by Margy Burns Knight (author) Anne Sibley O'Brien (illustrator)

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In English  and Spanish

by Jeannette Winter
and Jonah Winter (text)

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by Corinna Luyken

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by Monica Kulling (Author), Dean Griffiths (Illustrator)

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Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines

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Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines

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Designer of the Vietnam Veteran's War Memorial by Jeanne Walker Harvey (author) and Dow Phumiruk (illustrator)

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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

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By Javaka Steptoe

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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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By Jen Bryant (author) and Melissa Sweet (illustrator

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Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing

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Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing

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By Kay Haring (author) and Robert Neubecker (illustrator)

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Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade

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Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade

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By Melissa Sweet

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Sandy's Circus: A Story about Alexander Calder

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Sandy's Circus: A Story about Alexander Calder

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By Tanya Lee Stone (author) and Boris Kulikov (illustrator)

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By Jeanette Winter

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Ana Aranda. Check out her website. She's an illustrator & muralist. Watch an interview with her HERE.

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by Duncan Tonatiuh

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Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art 

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Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art 

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by Eric Carle Museum

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Maybe Something Beautiful...How Art Transformed a Neighborhood

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Maybe Something Beautiful...How Art Transformed a Neighborhood

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by F. Isabel Campoy (Author), Theresa Howell (Author), Rafael López (Illustrator)

You can visit the Maybe Something Beautiful website to learn all about this book.

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by Susan Verde (Author) and Peter Reynolds (Illustrator)

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The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art 

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The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art 

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by Barb Rosenstock (Author) and Mary GrandPre (Illustrator)

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by Laurence Anholt.
Part of a series of beautiful picture books which celebrate the work of significant artists.