Is your child drawn to a story’s artwork?
Draw!
Author: by Raul Colon
Illustrator: Raul Colon
Publisher: A Paula Wiseman Book, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Recommended Age Range: 4 to 8
Whether your child loves drawing, safaris, the animals that live there, or all of the above, this book is for you. With stunning images of a boy’s imaginative journey to visit, and sketch, the animals that live in the African Savanna, this book is a true work of art.
Awards: ALA Notable Children’s Book; International Latino Book Award 1st Place; KSRC Primary Titles – TOP PICK; NCTE Charlotte Huck Outstanding Fiction Recommended Title; Wisconsin State Reading Association’s Reading List
I Ain’t Ganna Paint No More!
Author: Karen Beaumont
Illustrator: David Catrow
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Recommended Age Range: 3 to 7
A hilarious romp of one little girl’s lack of willpower when it comes to painting, well…herself! Don’t miss this toe-tapping, yell-out-the-answer, kind of book that will get those giggles into full-blown belly laughs by the end. A great read-aloud!
Awards: 2006 American Library Association Notable Book Award; 2010 Georgia Children’s Picture Book Award; 2009 Tennessee State Picture Book Award; 2008 Arizona Library Association Picture Book Award; 2008 South Dakota Library Association Picture Book Award; 2007 Elementary California Collection; 2007 Kentucky State Book Award; 2006 New Hampshire Center for the Book – Picture Book Award; 2006 Alabama Children’s Choice Award; 2005 (Spring/Summer) Top 10 Children’s Books – Book Sense; 2005 Top 10 Children’s Books – Miami Herald; 2005 Top 5 Children’s Books – Nick Jr. Family Magazine (voted Funniest Book of 2005, and Most Likely to Get Kids in Trouble); 2005 Michigan Library Association Picture Book Award; 2005 Missouri Library Association Picture Book Award; 2005 Wilde Award for Best Rhythm and Rhyme; 2005 Bright Horizons “Book of Excellence;” 2005 New York Public Library recommended title
The Book of Mistakes
Author: Corinna Luyken
Illustrator: Corinna Luyken
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin Young Readers Group
Recommended Age Range: 4 to 8
Awards: Golden Kite Award
The First Drawing
Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Illustrator: Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Recommended Age Range: 3 to 6
“Can you imagine who made the world’s first drawing?” This is the question that inspired this terrific picture book. Based on a drawing recently discovered in a cave in southern France, one with an eight-year old’s footprints next to it, the book expresses what the author believes – that who else, but a child, could have created the first drawing. This is storytelling at its best.
Awards: 2014 Massachusetts Book Award: Children/Young Adult (Winner); Fall 2013 Parents’ Choice Award: Picture Book (Silver Medal Winner); Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College 2014 Best Book of the Year