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Rosie Revere, Engineer A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure. |
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Beautiful Oops! Demonstrates the many ways that torn, crinkled, and smudged bits of paper can be transformed into various shapes and images. |
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Ish Ramon loses confidence in his ability to draw, but his sister gives him a new perspective on things. |
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Not a Box To an imaginative bunny, a box is not always just a box. |
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Not a Stick An imaginative young pig shows some of the many things that a stick can be. |
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On a Beam of Light : A Story of Albert Einstein It’s not easy to explain the work of Albert Einstein to a young audience, but this marvelous book pulls it off. It does so by providing an overview of Einstein’s life: the way he thought and how his remarkable ideas changed the way scientists think. |
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Plant a Kiss One small act of love blooms into something bigger and more dazzling than Little Miss could have ever imagined. |
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I’m Here In a crowded park, a boy makes an airplane out of a piece of paper carried to him by a gentle breeze, sends it on its way, and watches a new friend bring it back to him. |
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Sky Color “Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can’t wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream”– |
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The Day the Crayons Quit When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them. |
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The Dot Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher’s encouragement leads her to change her mind. |
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A Little Bit of Oomph! Creativity is a focal point of this book presents its messages through a blend of mixed media artwork and pop-up book features including flaps, tabs, and rotating wheels. |
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore Morris Lessmore loves words, stories and books, and after a tornado carries him to another land, dreary and colorless, he finds a single book in color that leads him to an amazing library where, he learns, the books need him as much as he needs them. |
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Wildwood When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness–a dangerous and magical forest at the edge of Portland, Oregon–and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants. |
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Moon over Manifest Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past. |
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A Tangle of Knots “Destiny leads 11-year-old Cady to a peanut butter factory, a family of children searching for their own Talents, and a Talent Thief who will alter her life forever”–Provided by publisher. Includes cake recipes. |
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13 Treasures Bedeviled by evil fairies that only she can see, thirteen-year-old Tanya is sent to stay with her cold and distant grandmother at Elvesden Manor, where she and the caretaker’s son solve a disturbing mystery that leads them to the discovery that Tanya’s life is in danger. |
Dot Day
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September 15th, 2014 marks the fifth anniversary of “a global celebration of creativity, courage and collaboration,” Today, Dot Day has nearly one and a half million registered participants from over seventy-one countries. Its beginnings were humble. Dot Day began with one teacher, one class full of students and one book, The Dot by author/illustrator, Peter Reynolds. A reluctant artist, inspired by her teacher, finds a way to heed her teacher’s advice to make her mark. She begins with a single dot. Join the celebration to inspire the children in your life. You might even find that your creativity gets a boost as well. Connect with others across the country and around the globe. Make your mark on the world. Link to the official International Dot Day’s website to get inspired and connected. http://www.thedotclub.org/dotday/ In the meantime, check out this list of books that encourage readers to be creative, get inspired and find the beauty in each day. |
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