Great Books for the Elementary Art Room

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The Dot
The Dot 4.26 avg rating — 34,502 ratings
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Ish
Ish 4.38 avg rating — 11,916 ratings
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Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1)
Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 146,268 ratings
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Beautiful Oops [Board book]
Beautiful Oops [Board book] 4.57 avg rating — 4,425 ratings
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Not a Box
Not a Box 4.25 avg rating — 14,490 ratings
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Linnea in Monet's Garden
Linnea in Monet's Garden 4.19 avg rating — 3,609 ratings
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Sky Color
Sky Color 4.29 avg rating — 3,043 ratings
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The Day the Crayons Quit
The Day the Crayons Quit 4.42 avg rating — 58,581 ratings
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Green: (Caldecott Honor Book)
Green: (Caldecott Honor Book) 4.03 avg rating — 5,737 ratings
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Mouse Paint
Mouse Paint 4.17 avg rating — 16,274 ratings
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A Book About Design: Complicated Doesn't Make It Good
A Book About Design: Complicated Doesn't Make It Good 4.09 avg rating — 105 ratings
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White Rabbit's Color Book
White Rabbit's Color Book 4.24 avg rating — 962 ratings
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Art & Max
Art & Max 4.07 avg rating — 7,205 ratings
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Planting a Rainbow
Planting a Rainbow 4.13 avg rating — 6,315 ratings
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Little Blue and Little Yellow: A Story for Pippo and Other Children
Little Blue and Little Yellow: A Story for Pippo and Other Children 4.14 avg rating — 6,571 ratings
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Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors
Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors 4.08 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Picture This: How Pictures Work
Picture This: How Pictures Work 4.19 avg rating — 4,796 ratings
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Animalia
Animalia 4.27 avg rating — 23,012 ratings
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Red: A Crayon's Story
Red: A Crayon's Story 4.40 avg rating — 9,211 ratings
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The Arrival
The Arrival
by: Shaun Tan
4.35 avg rating — 59,076 ratings
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Action Jackson
Action Jackson 3.90 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail: The True Story of Picasso's Real-Life Muse (Anholt's Artists Books For Children)
Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail: The True Story of Picasso's Real-Life Muse (Anholt's Artists Books For Children) 4.18 avg rating — 343 ratings
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I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! 4.26 avg rating — 11,985 ratings
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The Magical Garden of Claude Monet
The Magical Garden of Claude Monet 4.17 avg rating — 522 ratings
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Camille and the Sunflowers: A Story About Vincent van Gogh
Camille and the Sunflowers: A Story About Vincent van Gogh 4.11 avg rating — 839 ratings
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Leonardo and the Flying Boy
Leonardo and the Flying Boy 4.02 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Tar Beach
Tar Beach 4.14 avg rating — 9,145 ratings
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The Art Lesson
The Art Lesson 4.24 avg rating — 4,342 ratings
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Zoom
Zoom 4.30 avg rating — 3,829 ratings
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Press Here
Press Here 4.42 avg rating — 24,915 ratings
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Chasing Vermeer (Chasing Vermeer, #1)
Chasing Vermeer (Chasing Vermeer, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 31,108 ratings
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Red Sings from Treetops
Red Sings from Treetops really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,059 ratings
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Round Trip
Round Trip
by: Ann Jonas
4.23 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
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Georgia's Bones
Georgia's Bones 3.82 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Henri's Scissors
Henri's Scissors 4.03 avg rating — 878 ratings
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A Day With No Crayons
A Day With No Crayons 4.07 avg rating — 515 ratings
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Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals 4.51 avg rating — 793 ratings
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Babar's Museum of Art
Babar's Museum of Art 4.04 avg rating — 294 ratings
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My Name Is Georgia: A Portrait by Jeanette Winter
My Name Is Georgia: A Portrait by Jeanette Winter 3.95 avg rating — 332 ratings
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No One Saw: Ordinary Things Through the Eyes of an Artist
No One Saw: Ordinary Things Through the Eyes of an Artist 4.04 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Uncle Andy's: A Faabbbulous Visit with Andy Warhol (Picture Puffin Books)
Uncle Andy's: A Faabbbulous Visit with Andy Warhol (Picture Puffin Books) 4.07 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Iggy Peck, Architect: A Picture Book
Iggy Peck, Architect: A Picture Book 4.43 avg rating — 6,284 ratings
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Degas and the Little Dancer: A story about Edgar Degas
Degas and the Little Dancer: A story about Edgar Degas 4.17 avg rating — 432 ratings
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Matisse: The King of Color (Anholt's Artists Books for Children Series)
Matisse: The King of Color (Anholt's Artists Books for Children Series) 4.26 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Cézanne and the Apple Boy
Cézanne and the Apple Boy 4.05 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Through Georgia's Eyes
Through Georgia's Eyes 3.75 avg rating — 236 ratings
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When Pigasso Met Mootisse
When Pigasso Met Mootisse 3.98 avg rating — 765 ratings
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Lines That Wiggle
Lines That Wiggle 3.96 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Adventures in Cartooning
Adventures in Cartooning 4.15 avg rating — 2,938 ratings
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Another Book About Design: Complicated Doesn't Make It Bad
Another Book About Design: Complicated Doesn't Make It Bad really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 67 ratings
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How the Sphinx Got to the Museum
How the Sphinx Got to the Museum 3.90 avg rating — 284 ratings
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A Book About Color: A Clear and Simple Guide for Young Artists
A Book About Color: A Clear and Simple Guide for Young Artists 4.12 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Wright 3 (Chasing Vermeer, #2)
The Wright 3 (Chasing Vermeer, #2) 3.91 avg rating — 9,978 ratings
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When Clay Sings
When Clay Sings 3.78 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Lemons Are Not Red
Lemons Are Not Red 4.03 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
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Millions of Cats
Millions of Cats 4.09 avg rating — 22,600 ratings
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Color Zoo
Color Zoo 3.96 avg rating — 3,245 ratings
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Linnea's Almanac
Linnea's Almanac 4.31 avg rating — 178 ratings
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The Firebird
The Firebird
by: Demi
4.13 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours 3.87 avg rating — 717 ratings
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Ed Emberley's Drawing Book: Make a World
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book: Make a World 4.49 avg rating — 695 ratings
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Corgiville Fair
Corgiville Fair 4.13 avg rating — 536 ratings
63.
You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum
You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum 4.09 avg rating — 721 ratings
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Let's Paint a Rainbow
Let's Paint a Rainbow 3.69 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Dogs' Night
Dogs' Night 4.24 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Celebrity Cat: With Paintings from Art Galleries Around the World
Celebrity Cat: With Paintings from Art Galleries Around the World 3.32 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Pencil
The Pencil really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,197 ratings
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3-D ABC: A Sculptural Alphabet
3-D ABC: A Sculptural Alphabet 3.84 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Virginia Wolf
Virginia Wolf 4.16 avg rating — 2,334 ratings
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Name That Style: All About Isms in Art
Name That Style: All About Isms in Art 3.92 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Here's Looking At Me: How Artists See Themselves
Here's Looking At Me: How Artists See Themselves 3.98 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Artful Reading
Artful Reading 4.35 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Art Is...
Art Is... 4.06 avg rating — 67 ratings
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I Spy Shapes in Art
I Spy Shapes in Art 3.92 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Goat in the Rug
The Goat in the Rug 4.26 avg rating — 274 ratings
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The Wonderful Towers of Watts (Reading Rainbow Books)
The Wonderful Towers of Watts (Reading Rainbow Books) 3.97 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Diego
Diego 3.84 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Frida
Frida 4.17 avg rating — 1,443 ratings
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Matthew's Dream
Matthew's Dream 3.92 avg rating — 519 ratings
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Art Fraud Detective (Art Mysteries, #1)
Art Fraud Detective (Art Mysteries, #1) 4.25 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Perfect Square
Perfect Square 4.11 avg rating — 4,994 ratings
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Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters (Bright Ideas for Learning
Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters (Bright Ideas for Learning 4.23 avg rating — 484 ratings
81.
How to Set Up Photography Lighting for a Home Studio
How to Set Up Photography Lighting for a Home Studio 3.70 avg rating — 172 ratings
81.
Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder
Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder 4.03 avg rating — 429 ratings
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Rosebunny Designs Love Inspire Create Coloring Book
Rosebunny Designs Love Inspire Create Coloring Book it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Adult Color Book: Relax in the Garden
Adult Color Book: Relax in the Garden it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
81.
What Dragons Like
What Dragons Like 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Kids' Crazy Art Concoctions: 50 Mysterious Mixtures for Art & Craft Fun (Williamson Kids Can! Series)
Kids' Crazy Art Concoctions: 50 Mysterious Mixtures for Art & Craft Fun (Williamson Kids Can! Series) 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
88.
Anna's Art Adventure (Picture Books)
Anna's Art Adventure (Picture Books) 3.68 avg rating — 59 ratings
90.
The E.L. Konigsburg Collection
The E.L. Konigsburg Collection 4.23 avg rating — 257 ratings
90.
123 I Can Draw!
123 I Can Draw! 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Mudpies Activity Book: Recipes for Invention
The Mudpies Activity Book: Recipes for Invention 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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What Does Bunny See?: A Book of Colors and Flowers
What Does Bunny See?: A Book of Colors and Flowers 3.78 avg rating — 413 ratings
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Mousterpiece: A Mouse-Sized Guide to Modern Art
Mousterpiece: A Mouse-Sized Guide to Modern Art 3.80 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Lotions, Potions, and Slime: Mudpies and More!
Lotions, Potions, and Slime: Mudpies and More! 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Bring on the Blue (My First Colors Series)
Bring on the Blue (My First Colors Series) 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Mudpies Book of Boredom Busters
The Mudpies Book of Boredom Busters 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Hugo and Miles in I've Painted Everything
Hugo and Miles in I've Painted Everything 3.87 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Who Stole Mona Lisa?
Who Stole Mona Lisa? 3.74 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Blue Goose
Blue Goose 3.84 avg rating — 688 ratings
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