Amy Novesky, illus. by Lisa Congdon. Cameron + Company (www.cameronbooks.com), $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-937359-32-4
Striking a tone of quiet intimacy and using simple sentence constructions, Novesky follows Georgia in Hawaii and Me, Frieda with another tribute to a female 20th-century artist. Young Imogen Cunningham's family had very little, but her father...
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Amy Novesky, illus. by Sara Gillingham. Cameron Kids (PGW, dist.), $12.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-937359-86-7
Novesky and Gillingham follow Love Is a Tutu with a lighthearted, vehicle-centric reflection on love. Some of the analogies in Novesky’s mostly unrhymed verse work better than others: the idea that “Love is a loader. Love is a lifter” in one...
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Amy Novesky, illus. by Brittney Lee. Disney Press, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4847-5720-8
Art imitates art-driven life in this uneven tribute to an iconic illustrator who climbed to admirable creative heights at Walt Disney Studios. Following a childhood in which her family had little money for paint supplies, Mary Blair trains as an...
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Amy Novesky, illus. by Gael Abary. Holiday House/Porter, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5695-6
This love letter to horseback riding offers warm encouragement, even to readers who may not have access to horses. Novesky (Girl on a Motorcycle) welcomes those riding only in their imaginations (“All you have to do is close your eyes”) or using...
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Amy Novesky, illus. by Jessica Love. Viking, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-593-52639-2
In the first of this collection of poems, Novesky compares the brief life and enduring work of bees with those of beekeeper and poet Sylvia Plath (1932–1963): “Love, bees don’t live long..../ But honey lives forever. Words, too.” Four delicate,...
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Amy Novesky, illus. by Vanessa Brantley Newton. Harcourt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205806-7
This biography of Billie Holiday (1915–1959) is as much a study of her dogs as of the singer. And there were a lot of them. “The Chihuahuas, Chiquita and Pepe, she fed with a baby bottle,” writes Novesky. “There was the Great Dane named Gypsy and...
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Amy Novesky, illus, by David Diaz. Abrams, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8109-8969-6
Novesky's (Elephant Prince) portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo depicts the artist as a reticent newcomer in a foreign country, who gradually gains self-confidence from her surroundings. Overflowing with compelling imagery ("Frida especially...
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Amy Novesky, illus. by Julie Morstad. Viking, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-593-11629-6
In 1973, a 28-year-old woman got on a motorcycle in Paris and circled the globe alone, crossing continents, scaling mountains, and visiting parts of the planet that most people never see. This engaging picture book biography by Novesky (Cloth...
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Amy Novesky, illus. by Yuyi Morales. Harcourt, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205420-5
While most people associate Georgia O’Keeffe with the landscape of the American Southwest, this picture book explores the time she spent in Hawaii. Commissioned by the
Hawaiian Pineapple Company to paint two works that “promote the delights of...
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Amy Novesky, illus. by Isabelle Arsenault. Abrams, $18.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1881-6
Novesky (Me, Friday) details the creative and passionate life of artist Louise Bourgeois. Arsenault’s mixed-media collages feature textile patterns and spider-web designs, evoking the influence of her family’s work restoring tapestries. The reds and
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