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Best Children's Books of 2012: Nonfiction [showing slide 21 of 26]

CHUCK CLOSE: FACE BOOK by Chuck Close
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by Chuck Close
"Art lovers of all ages will revel in this vivid, wonderfully affecting book, which is almost as ingenious and memorable as Close himself. (timeline, glossary, list of resources and illustration credits) (Nonfiction. 8-12)"
A magnificent interactive "face book" portrait of the artist. Read full book review >
THE IMPOSSIBLE RESCUE by Martin W. Sandler THE MIGHTY MARS ROVERS by Elizabeth Rusch FIFTY CENTS AND A DREAM by Jabari Asim ELECTRIC BEN by Robert Byrd ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS by Russell Freedman SPIRIT SEEKER by Gary Golio THE AMAZING HARRY KELLAR by Gail Jarrow I HAVE A DREAM by Kadir Nelson WE'VE GOT A JOB by Cynthia Y. Levinson CASTLE by David Macaulay LITTLE WHITE DUCK by Andrés Vera Martínez ONE TIMES SQUARE by Joe McKendry GEORGIA IN HAWAII by Amy Novesky TWELVE KINDS OF ICE by Ellen Bryan Obed HAND IN HAND by Andrea Davis Pinkney MONSIEUR MARCEAU by Leda Schubert DISCOVERING BLACK AMERICA by Linda Tarrant-Reid IT JES' HAPPENED by Don Tate OCEAN SUNLIGHT by Molly Bang ISLAND by Jason Chin CHUCK CLOSE: FACE BOOK by Chuck Close A BLACK HOLE IS NOT A HOLE by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano DREAMING UP by Christy Hale THE BEETLE BOOK by Steve Jenkins ZOMBIE MAKERS by Rebecca L. Johnson YOU ARE STARDUST by Elin Kelsey