Wall to Wall Mural Art around the World
ISBN: HB: 9781947440081, Getty Publications, May 2024
80 pp., 26,0x21,6 cm, 85 colour illus.
"Wall to Wall" presents an exciting tour of remarkable wall art around the globe, from prehistoric caves to futuristic wonders. People have been drawing on walls since ancient times. They do it to create beauty, to tell a story, to make a statement...
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If... 25th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: HB: 9781947440050, Getty Publications, March 2020
48 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, 30 colour illus.
Take a fantastical journey where anything can happen: leaves turn into fish, cats fly with wings, humans have tails, frogs eat rainbows, and dreams become visible. The Getty's first children's title, Sarah Perry's delightful picture book of "surreal...
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Don't Let the Beasties Escape This Book!
ISBN: HB: 9781947440043, Getty Publications, September 2019
36 pp., 26,0x21,0 cm, illus.
Young Godfrey and his family toil for the lord and lady of the castle. But when Godfrey stumbles upon an unfinished Book of Beasts, its splendid pictures of animals make him forget his chores. He invents the story of a brave knight, Sir Godfrey the G...
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Cleo and Cornelius
ISBN: HB: 9781947440036, Getty Publications, August 2018
32 pp., 25,8x23,5 cm, 23 colour illus.
Courageous Cleo and couch potato Cornelius live in ancient Egypt, where cats lie around all day, being pampered like gods and goddesses. One day Cornelius accidentally boards a boat headed to the faraway city of Rome, and Cleo sets off on a quest to...
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Therese Makes a Tapestry
ISBN: HB: 9781606064733, Getty Publications, March 2016
40 pp., 27,9x23,6 cm, colour illus.
Step back in time to seventeenth-century Paris with Therese, a talented young girl who lives and works at the Gobelins Manufactory, where Europe's greatest artisans make tapestries and luxury objects for King Louis XIV. Even though girls are not trai...
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£16.99
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King Seen from the Sky
ISBN: HB: 9781606064603, Getty Publications, October 2015
36 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, 32 colour illus.
This delightful book by award-winning children's book author and illustrator Bruno Gibert is intended for five- to seven-year-olds. It is inspired by the true story of the first flight of living creatures in a handmade aircraft. On September 19, 1783...
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£12.99
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Goldfish
ISBN: HB: 9781606060940, Getty Publications, December 2011
32 pp., 30,5x19,8 cm, colour illus.
This is a charming tale about the creation of a very unusual chandelier... Here is a different kind of adventure story; "The Goldfish in the Chandelier" takes place just outside of Paris in the early 1800s. Uncle Henri is stuck. He has been commissio...
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Renoir's Colors
ISBN: HB: 9781606060032, Getty Publications, May 2010
40 pp., 20,5x20,1 cm, 16 colour illus., 153 black&white illus.
This book helps children identify and explore colours through eight child-friendly paintings by the great Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Its engaging interactive format invites the reader to open a flap and see a beautiful colour detail...
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ABC of What Art Can Be
ISBN: HB: 9780892369997, Getty Publications, May 2010
40 pp., 28,3x14,2 cm, 40 colour illus.
This delightful book is a colorful reminder of the many things that visual art can be, become, and do. Whether it's weaving or making pottery or working on your computer or turning junk into something unexpected and wonderful, "An ABC of What Art Can...
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Pedro The Angel of Olvera Street
ISBN: HB: 9780892369904, Getty Publications, November 2009
32 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, colour illus.
This Caldecott Honor book from beloved children's book author Leo Politi, originally published in 1946, is set on Olvera Street, the site of Los Angeles' original Latino settlement, which is still preserved very much as it once was – a busy and colou...
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