Five New Picture Books to Inspire Young Artists

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I am so excited today because I get to introduce you to Megan of Chickadee Lit! Megan is all about picture books, a world that I miss then much now that my kids are older. I absolutely dearest Megan'south Instagram feed considering it brings me dorsum to the days of reading on laps and snuggling with a cute book.

Today Megan will be introducing united states of america to the five best new picture books of 2016 that inspire young children to be creative. And oh my discussion, they are so good!

Here is Megan…

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"Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination." —bestselling author Sidney Sheldon

Off the top of my caput, I could proper noun a few dozen compelling reasons to read with children every twenty-four hour period. Reading helps kids form loving bonds, sets them upward for academic success, expands their perspectives on the world, and builds their disquisitional thinking skills. In the summertime months, reading takes on a special importance. Kids who read over long breaks from school retain more skills and noesis than those who do not.

Best of all, reading tin can spark creativity and lead to tons of hands-on fun. Here are five moving-picture show books from the beginning half of 2022 that will inspire kids to paint, doodle, glue, collaborate, photo, build, collect, dance, and more!

Swatch: The Daughter Who Loved Color,past Julia Denos (Amazon link)

Do you have a Swatch your life? Swatch is a wild girl who tames colors. She collects hues such equally "Rumble-Tumble Pink" in jam jars until she meets her match in "Yellowest Yellow." This special color teaches her to melody in to her collection; colors have voices of their ain and aren't meant to be tamed.

I enjoy reading this story considering it is celebration of creativity and living out loud, but the writing is wonderful in itself. Here is my favorite judgement: "Morning came, and at that place it was, fast fading and fierce, the King of All Yellows, blooming in the sidewalk scissure in spite of the shadows." I dear the assonance that Julia Denos creates here, and I beloved modeling this inventive use of language for my kids.

When my children and I read Swatch, they become securely still—completely absorbed by the story and images—which is unusual considering the illustrations in this book are all about motion. Vivid and richly-textured colors twirl, swirl, and soar along with Swatch, who reaches, leaps, and rides. These grand gestures seem to send them somehow.

Let's Play!, by Hervé Tullet (Amazon link)

Hervé Tullet is back in 2016! Take you seen this third interactive volume, Let's Play? A perfect companion to his pop titles Press Here and Mix Information technology Up!, Allow's Play! is a tactile experience that gets readers pushing, shaking, and swirling in a delightful chain of crusade-and-effect.

In this book, the main grapheme—an outgoing yellowish dot—invites the reader to trace along a continuous line that goes up, downwards, effectually, through, over, and every-which-way. My daughter loves all three of Tullet'south books, simply this i is especially fun for her because of the dot'south persona; it expresses emotion and breaks the quaternary wall to speak to her directly.

This is an all around fun read that can exist extended for tons of creative (what else) play.

Possibly Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood,  by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell, Illustrated by Rafael López (Amazon link)

What good tin a splash of color practice in a customs of gray? Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood answers this question in the best possible fashion.

This book tells the story of Mira, a niggling girl who sees possibility in art and in color. She says to herself, "Hmmm, maybe…," and begins passing her drawings to neighbors and taping them on buildings. She soon meets a human with a pocket full of paint brushes—a muralist who inspires her whole community to draw, paint, dance, sing, and imagine.

Possibly Something Beautiful is based on the true story of San Diego's E Hamlet neighborhood. Now a vibrant destination alive with the colour in the form of murals, mosaics, and other public artwork, the East Hamlet was gray and drab until husband-and-wife squad Rafael and Candice López began the Urban Art Trail organization and inspired their customs to create. Rafael López illustrates this volume, and his pictures are vibrant and thriving. I think you will especially love his vertical two-page spreads, which are an exciting surprise punctuating important turning points in the book's plot.

Louise and Andie: The Art of Friendship, by Kelly Light (Amazon link)

Practice you want to depict together? Louise and Andie is an adorable book (the follow-upward to Kelly Lite's 2014 book Louise Loves Art) all nigh collaboration. Louise is delighted when a new neighbor named Andie moves in. And—fifty-fifty better—Andie loves art, too. Simply what happens when two friends have creative differences?

Raising children who have the ability to communicate with others and creatively solve problems is high on my priority listing, and so this is a book that I'thou absolutely loving. Information technology helps that Louise is a fantastic grapheme—a corking and relatable role model for itty-fragmentary creatives. I love her un-ironic enthusiasm and how her signature red glasses pop against the book'south simple color palette. Also lovable are the book's charming action spreads, which are somewhat reminiscent of Archie comics, and the clever allusions to modernistic fine art. (Expect for the stack of Campbell's Soup cans in Andie's moving boxes…become it…Andie?)

Rain Fish, by Lois Elhert (Amazon link)

"When blueish sky turns greyness and it rains all day, that'south when rain fish come out and play.
They hide in debris until rain sets them free. Practise you see them, too? Or is it just me?"

Lois Elhert, the Caldecott Accolade–winning illustrator behind children's classic Chicka Chicka Boom Smash, has a new book. Rain Fish features over forty mixed-media fish—collages made from trash and other items Elhert nerveless over the class of a twelvemonth. The book's bright blue pages and elongated shape show off the creations, and the rhyming text is tons of fun to read aloud.

The inventive fine art shows readers a brand new fashion to look at litter. Just try and read this book without wanting to create some rain fish of your ain.

I would actually love to see your projects! Please tag me on Instagram if y'all make some fine art based on these or any other picture books.

A little most Megan: "I'm Megan Lingo: veteran teacher, Educational Therapist, and lifelong lover of books. I read to my three kids every twenty-four hour period. Just because I love them. And their books. And how quiet they are when I'm reading their books. Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest or my make-new web log Chickadee Lit, where I write about reading for kids and families."

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Ok, I don't know well-nigh you, but I have a deep demand to own all of these books immediately. I may not have minor children anymore, simply I teach little artists! So there's my alibi to buy more books. Of course, I might likewise only take a stroll down to the library and check them out for free!

Megan would love to see whatsoever and all art projects that you brand from these books – or any books. Tag her on Instagram at @chickadee.lit!

xo, Bar

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