Picture book, pre school
from the back cover: Join Peppa and her friends on their class trip to the top of the mountain. What fun things will they find?
Meet Millie, the charming but somewhat cursed daughter of Princess Emma and Prince Eadric. Why cursed? Every time Millie gets mad (and she gets mad a little too often) she turns into a dragon. And not a cute pink dragon either. She becomes a full-on, green scaled, huge-winged, fire-breathing dragon - big enough to scare suitors who come to see about her hand in marriage. Its embarrassing even …
Fourteen-year-old Jimmy Kelly is Fat Boy Fat, the largest kid in his Scottish community, who’s made to feel useless at everything. Only his family knows he’s a whiz in the kitchen, and Jimmy is determined to keep it that way. So when GI Joe, the toughest coach at school, finds out his secret, Jimmy is sure he’s doomed. But Coach proposes a deal: If Jimmy helps him, Coach will help Jimmy …
Andy Warhol, the iconic Pop artist, presented himself as the vacuous, dumb kid, famously saying, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings, and there I am. There's nothing behind it." This book penetrates the surface and explores Warhol's art from his beginnings as a commercial artist to his apotheosis as a society portrait painter. Vivid illustrations…
"In 1956, Time magazine referred to Pollock as 'Jack the Dripper'. His iconic paintings stretch out with the generosity and scale of America's Western landscape where the artist grew up. Pollock said that he painted 'out of his conscious': the cathartic dribbled paint reflected his troubled mind. This book traces Pollock's career and discusses how his loose, individual style was used as a polit…