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Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When her sister succumbs to a mood that makes the whole family feel topsy-turvy, Vanessa paints a wonderful imaginary place--a beautiful garden complete with a ladder and a swing--in a story loosely based on the writer Virginia Woolf and her artist sister, Vanessa Bell.
3) Horse
Author
Language
English
Description
"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history. Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
Author
Series
Sisters of the salt volume 2
Language
English
Description
"When the youngest Thaumas sister, Verity, leaves Salann for the lush Bloem on a painting commission, she quickly discovers that the intriguing Laurent family isn't as perfect as they appear"--
Despite dreams of adventures far beyond the Salann shores, seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas has remained at her family's estate, Highmoor, with her older sister Camille, while their sisters have scattered across Arcannia. When their sister Mercy sends word...
7) Art and Max
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Max wants to be an artist like Arthur, but his first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the two friends on a whirlwind trip through various media, with unexpected consequences.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist - and confidante - to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own...Known for her original designs and sage advice, Lakshmi must tread carefully to avoid the jealous gossips who could ruin her reputation...
10) Celebrity cat
Author
Publisher
F. Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
During Cats' Visiting Night at the art museum, cats tour the masterpieces, but Felissima, disappointed at the lack of cats in the art, remedies the situation using her unique artistic skills, in a story with reworkings of famous paintings, shown alongside the originals.
11) Nadia's hands
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A Pakistani-American girl takes part in her aunt's traditional Pakistani wedding.
12) Waking the dead
Author
Series
Cafferty and Quinn novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danielle Cafferty and Michael Quinn, occasional partners in solving crime, are quickly drawn into the case of a painting reputed to come to life--and to bring death. They begin to make connections between that summer in Switzerland and this spring in Louisiana. Danni, the owner of an eccentric antiques shop, and Quinn, a private detective, have discovered that they have separate but complementary talents when it comes to investigating unusual situations....
Author
Series
Aetherial tales volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"A painting, depicting haunting scenes of a ruined palace and a scarlet-haired goddess in front of a fiery city, arrives unheralded in an art gallery with a cryptic note saying, "The world needs to see this." The painting begins to change the lives of the woman who is the gallery's curator and that of an ancient man of the fey Aetherial folk who has mysteriously risen from the depths of the ocean. Neither human nor fairy knows how they are connected,...
14) Painting time
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painter, Paula Karst, who is enrolled at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. With the attention of a documentary filmmaker, de Kerangal follows Paula's apprenticeship, punctuated by brushstrokes, hard work, sleepless nights, sore muscles, and long, festive evenings. After completing her studies at the Institute, Paula continues to practice her...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...
16) The empty room
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When he and his family help finish a Habitat for Humanity house, Connor expects to be bored, but when another boy is assigned to help him paint a bedroom, the results are surprising.
18) Still life
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
As an artist demonstrates the strict rules for creating a still life painting, the painting disregards each one as it comes alive and tells its own story.
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
20) Portrait
Author
Publisher
Gallic Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Avid antiques collector Pierre-François Chaumont unearths the find of a lifetime at a Paris auction house: an eighteenth-century portrait of a gentleman who looks just like him. Researching into the painting's history, he has the chance to abandon his tedious existence and walk into a brand new life . . .
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