Amy Novesky
1) Me, Frida
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English
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Description
Artist Frida Kahlo finds her own voice and style when her famous husband, Diego Rivera, is commissioned to paint a mural in San Francisco, California, in the 1930s and she finds herself exploring the city on her own.
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English
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A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Cloth Lullaby stunningly captures the life of Louise Bourgeois and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all.
Before she became an artist, Louise Bourgeois was an apprentice in her family's tapestry shop, where her mother was a weaver of tapestries. Discover how Louise learned about form and color, and how memories of her...
8) Mary Poppins
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
A wind brings some English children a new nanny who slides up the bannister, introduces the two oldest to her friends, and takes them on many adventures.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
The author of Cloth Lullaby and the illustrator of When Green Becomes Tomatoes depicts Anne-France Dautheville's hazardous 1973 journey through remarkable world cultures, in a picture book biography of the first woman to ride a motorcycle around the world.
11) Love is a truck
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Series
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English
Description
Celebrates a child's love for a variety of trucks, from fire engines to cement mixers to ice cream trucks.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
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English
Description
"Young Mary Browne Robinson loved color, even her name had a color in it. All she wanted to do was to make art. But becoming an artist wasn't an easy. Her parents worked hard to provide her paper and paints, and Mary worked hard to enter contests and earn a spot at a school for the arts. She even had to work hard to find her place at the Walt Disney Studios. But Walt was easily impressed by Mary Blair. When she joined his trip to South America, Mary...
14) Finding Dory
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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
Dory has to make a trip across the ocean to get back to her mother and father.
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
Description
"Imogen's family didn't have much, and life was hard atop the wild hill they called home. But when Imogen declared she wanted to be a photographer, her father built a darkroom just for her. Flash forward. Imogen is a photographer and a mother. She has her hands full! How does she do it all? She turns the garden into a wonderland for her three growing boys and a workshop for herself. While she works, her boys play, and Imogen photographs them. CLICK....
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
After losing her mother, shy Natumi is rescued by a team from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an orphanage for baby elephants. At the shelter, Natumi hides behind keepers' legs to watch the other elephants at the shelter. But soon, she meets several other orphans, and the eight of them play together in the surrounding bush. As the babies become closer and more like a real family, they need a leader, someone they can trust. Can Natumi grow into...
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