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41) Claudia & Moth
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Claudia loves butterflies. Blue ones. Yellow ones. Purple ones with dots. And since she can't take them home, she paints them in all their beautiful colors. But when winter comes, there are no more butterflies to paint...until she finds a little moth. Suddenly, Claudia sees winter in a whole new light.
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"Emily thinks she's lost everything ... until a mysterious painting leads her to what she wants most in the world. Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad ran out on the family when she was a just a kid, her mom died when she was seventeen, and her beloved grandmother has just passed away as well. But when she's laid off from her reporting job, she finds herself completely at sea ... until the day she receives a beautiful, haunting painting...
43) One boy
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A boy creates ten paintings in this counting book that also explores the relationship of words within words.
44) Big brown bear
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A big brown bear turns blue while painting when a little bear playing with her baseball bat accidentally knocks him off his ladder.
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"Sam is working on making a clay dinosaur for the school art show and sale when the clay suddenly comes to life and attacks him, a sure sign that once again Orson Eerie, whose spirit inhabits the school, is up to something--and it is up to Sam, Antonio, and Lucy, to discover how a self-portrait of Orson figures into his evil plan."--
46) Bear's picture
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A bear continues to paint what he likes despite criticism from two passing gentlemen.
47) Crocodali
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Crocodali, the most talented painter in the world, invites the reader to help create a masterpiece by tilting, shaking, rubbing, and blowing on the book.
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Seventh-grader Claudia Miravista loves art, but socially she is always the odd girl out--but on a trip to the local art museum she sees a boy in a painting, who moves from painting to painting, and soon she embarks on an adventure behind the canvas, determined to free the boy Pim from the artistic prison he has endured for over three hundred years.
50) Mouse & Hippo
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"When Hippo saves Mouse after he falls into the lake, Mouse paints his new friend's portrait to thank him"--
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When he is unable to play baseball with other children because their loud noises hurt his head, a young autistic boy uses his love of painting and colors to find another way to make friends. Includes suggested activities.
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Tiz and Ott are drawing themselves a house. With the scritch scratch of her crayon, Tiz busily plants some seeds for the garden. Meanwhile Ott lies back lazily and makes a huge splodge for the sun. Then Tiz has a big idea. With a zig, a zag and a crash, she jolts Ott awake with a huge bolt of lightning! Together Tiz and Ott whip up a storm but as they soon find out, a storm isn't just lines on a page - Get carried away with Tiz and Ott as they use...
55) The mare's nest
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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.
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"When Shu Lin starts at her new school, she wears yellow rain boots and a pink coat. At recess, she stands alone in the playground. At lunchtime, she eats by herself from little boxes of brightly colored food. Her classmates aren't sure what to make of her. But one day, when Shu Lin's grandpa comes to school to share his amazing artwork, everything changes"--
57) Woodpecker girl
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A little girl was born with cerebral palsy, a condition that rendered her wheelchair bound. One day, her art teacher affixed a paintbrush to her forehead with a headband. From then on, the little girl was able to express herself and freely explore the world through her paintings.
58) The sign painter
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"A young mother struggles to get back on her feet after a devastating loss leaves her and her daughter alone and living on the street"--
60) Paw painters
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During art week in Mr. Lopez's classroom, hamsters Tip and Tucker escape their cage and make a mess--and some artwork--of their own.