Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Liang and the magic paintbrush	Demi	A poor boy who longs to paint is given a magic brush that brings to life whatever he pictures.	OL103648W
Painted dreams	Karen Lynn Williams	Because her Haitian family is too poor to be able to buy paints for her, eight-year-old Ti Marie finds her own way to create pictures that make the heart sing.	OL15125003W
Soggy Saturday	Phyllis Root	After a hard rain, the animals on Bonnie Bumble's farm all turn blue.	OL15273752W
The picture of Dorian Gray [adaptation]	Fern Siegel	An incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corru…	OL15393132W
Oh no, not again!, or, How I built a time machine to save history (or at least my history grade)	Mac Barnett	When she does not get a perfect score on her history test, a young girl builds a time machine to remedy the situation.	OL15946566W
Greg and the mural	Thalia Wiggins	When Greg's design wins the contest for the mural in the new community center, he has to deal with the malicious anger of one of the losers, as well as the jealousy of his older cousin James.	OL16002904W
The Blackhope enigma	Teresa Flavin	Fourteeen-year-old Sunni, her stepbrother Dean, and an art-student friend trace the footsteps of a labyrinth built in Blackhope Tower by a mysterious and brilliant sixteenth-century artist, and sudde…	OL16212076W
Let's paint the garage!	Melinda Melton Crow	It is time to paint the Wonder Wheels Garage.	OL16343087W
Splat! the tale of a colorful cat	Jane Seymour	When Big Jim Cat is left in charge of his kittens, the results of the painting project he suggests are not quite what he expected.	OL1812165W
Maria's cave	William H. Hooks	A young Spanish girl discovers the first prehistoric paintings ever seen in modern times in a cave at Altamira, Spain.	OL19140853W
When Sophie's feelings are really, really hurt	Molly Bang	In addition to the book's subtle art lesson (imagine the skies of Vincent van Gogh, for example), readers have the opportunity to compare and contrastall the paintings done in Sophie's class. In the …	OL20009037W
Caught blue-handed	Sheila Sweeny	"The mystery pox is spreading! Help Doc find out why"--P. [4] of cover.	OL22645384W
Pearl paints	Abigail Thomas	Using her new set of watercolors, Pearl paints a masterpiece.	OL2669513W
Painting the wind	Emily MacLachlan Charest,Patricia MacLachlan	Several artists who paint different things, with different kinds of paint, and at different times of the day, all paint the same island that they visit each summer.	OL2949975W
The mare's nest	Gary Bowen	In nineteenth-century Vermont, an itinerant artist who travels the New England countryside painting portraits of livestock and pets discovers a mystery involving some stolen animals.	OL3678932W
Charlotte in Paris	Joan Knight	The young daughter of American artists living in Giverny, France, in 1893, records in her journal her exciting trip to Paris to attend an Impressionist art exhibition. Includes biographical sketches …	OL442219W
Where can Bunny paint?	Michael Rex	After several failed attempts, Bunny finally gets to paint something.	OL484454W
Painting with Picasso	Julie Merberg	Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist, Pablo Picasso, rhyming text explores the expressions and activities of various people, from a young girl catching a dove to a serious boy s…	OL5717306W
The painter and the wild swans =	Claude Clément	Transfixed by the beauty of a passing flock of white swans, a Japanese painter finds that he cannot work until he sees them again.	OL830917W
The gentleman and the kitchen maid	Diane Stanley	When two paintings hanging across from each other in a museum fall in love, a resourceful art student finds a way to unite the lovers.	OL98349W