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2010 Best Children's Books: Great Books About the Arts

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Pub Date: Oct 12, 2010
Age Range: 10 - 16
The childhood of African-American literary giant Zora Neale Hurston is brought to life with this fictionalized account.
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Pub Date: Oct 4, 2010
Age Range: 4 - 10
Two lizards, one an unbridled enthusiast and the other a restrained snoot, stumble along a circuitous creative path together, making art through mishap and engaging all kinds of media along the way.
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Pub Date: Oct 1, 2010
Age Range: 8 - 18
Significantly updating the Caldecott Honor–winning Castle (1977) and Cathedral (1973) with new text and full-color illustrations, this hefty volume combines them with a very lightly revised Mosque (2003) for a three-in-one architectural spree.
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Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
Pub Date: Oct 1, 2010
Age Range: 6 - 11
Golio examines Jimi Hendrix's childhood creativity as a nurtured progression that stoked an explosively influential expression in the '60s.
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Pub Date: Sep 14, 2010
Age Range: 4 - 8
Stalwart friends Piggie and Gerald the elephant push the metafictive envelope in a big way when they realize that "someone is looking at us."
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Pub Date: Sep 1, 2010
Age Range: 5 - 8
This inventive book's $20,000 Pyramid category would be "What Mona Lisa Might Say."
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