Paint and Create!
Title: Art
By: Patrick McDonnell
Published: 2006
A rhyming tribute to a budding young artist by the famous cartoonist. Children are introduced to the imaginative world of art and how a picture really can be worth a thousand words. Age Range: 4 - 8 years
Call Number: JPicture Mcdon.P
Title: The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse
By: Eric Carle
Published: 2011
The artist in this book paints the world as he sees it, just like a child. There's a red crocodile, an orange elephant, a purple fox and a polka-dotted donkey. More than anything, there's imagination. Filled with some of the most magnificently colorful animals of Eric Carle's career, this tribute to the creative life celebrates the power of art. Age Range: 3 - 5 years
Call Number: JPicture Carle.E
Title: The Dot
By: Peter Reynolds
Published: 2003
Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind. With a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices even the stubbornly uncreative among us to make a mark -- and follow where it takes us. Check out more Peter Reynolds books about painting: Willow, Ish, Sky Color and more! Age Range: 5 - 9 years
Call Number: JPicture Reyno.P
Title: I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
By: Karen Beaufort
Published: 2005
David Catrow's illustrations are fantastic in this crazy rhyming ode to getting paint on every part of your body and home! Age Range: 6 - 12 years
Call Number: JPicture Beaum.K
Title: Mouse Paint
By: Ellen Stoll Walsh
Published: 1989
One day three white mice discover three jars of paint--red, blue, and yellow. But what happens when they splash in the colors, mixing the red and blue? Or dance in the blue and yellow? This playful introduction to colors will appeal to any budding artist or curious preschooler. Age Range: 2 - 6 years
Call Number: JPicture Walsh.E
Title: The Noisy Paint Box : the Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art
By: Barbara Rosenstock
Published: 2014
Describes how modern painter Wassily Kandinsky's creative life was profoundly shaped by a neurological condition called synesthesia which caused him to experienced colors as sounds and sounds as colors. Age Range: 4 - 8 years
Call Number: x759.7 Kandi.W Rosen.B
Title: Paint Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Painting and Mixed-media
By: Stephanie Corfee
Published: 2015
Paint Lab for Kids is an inspiring collection of fresh, kid-friendly projects for nurturing an artistic spirit through working and playing with paint. Popular artist Stephanie Corfee offers an exciting resource of easy-to-follow instructions supported throughout with step-by-step, full-color photographs for projects that teach techniques, stimulate new ideas, explore color, combine materials in interesting ways, and encourage self-expression. Age Range: 6 - 12 years
Call Number: x751.4 Corfe.S
Title: Paper Son
By: Julie Leung
Published: 2019
2021 Asian/Pacific American Award for Best Picture Book! Before he became an artist named Tyrus Wong, he was a boy named Wong Geng Yeo. He traveled from China to America with only a suitcase and a few papers. Once in America, Tyrus seized every opportunity to make art. Eventually, he was given the opportunity of a lifetime! Using sparse brushstrokes and soft watercolors, Tyrus created the iconic backgrounds of Bambi. Age Range: 4 - 8 years
Call Number: xBiog Wong.T Leung.J
Title: Radiant Child: the Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
By: Javaka Steptoe
Published: 2016
Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award! Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Age Range: 4 - 8
Call Number: xBiog Basqu.J Stept.J
Title: A Splash of Red : the Life and Art of Horace Pippin
By: Jen Bryant
Published: 2013
The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor winner and Schneider Family Book Award. Be inspired by the passion and perseverance of artist Horace Pippin in this engaging picture book biography. The tightly woven narrative coupled with mixed media collage, watercolor and gouache illustrations capture the essence of Pippin's life and work. Age Range: 5 - 8 years
Call Number: xBiog Pippi.H Bryan.J
Title: Viva Frida
By: Yuyi Morales
Published: 2014
A 2015 Caldecott Honor Book and a 2015 Pura Belpré (Illustrator) Award winner,
this book explores the passionate, imaginative life of the incomparable Frida Kahlo. Age Range: 4 - 8 years
Call Number: Spanish xBiog Kahlo.F Moral.Y