May 21, 2025
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Take a time trip with this hilarious collection of 140 history-themed jokes. Young readers will be able to pun about this past – from Vikings, to Victorians – with this brilliant joke book, featuring wacky cartoon illustrations.
This book builds general knowledge and their playful jokes are great to share with family and friends.
Q: When did early people start wearing uncreased clothes?
A: In the Iron Age
Take a time trip with this hilarious collection of 140 history-themed jokes. Young readers will be able to pun about this past – from Vikings, to Victorians – with this brilliant joke book, featuring wacky cartoon illustrations.
This book builds general knowledge and their playful jokes are great to share with family and friends.
Q: When did early people start wearing uncreased clothes?
A: In the Iron Age
How many art styles can you name? Can you tell the difference between Naturalism and Realism? How about Cubism and Impressionism? In this book, art lover Bob Raczka clearly explains the basics of fourteen different art styles, spanning the 1430s to the 1970s. He also introduces such stylish artists as Jan van Eyck, Joseph Turner and Juan Gris. So get ready to “brush up” on your sense of style!
As a child in the late 1800s, Horace Pippin loved to draw: He loved the feel of the charcoal as it slid across the floor. He loved looking at something in the room and making it come alive again in front of him. He drew pictures for his sisters, his classmates, his co-workers.
Even during W.W.I, Horace filled his notebooks with drawings from the trenches . . . until he was shot. Upon his return home, Horace couldn’t lift his right arm, and couldn’t make any art. Slowly, with lots of practice, he regained use of his arm, until once again, he was able to paint–and paint, and paint!
William Playfair was a dreamer and a joker. He saw the world differently from most and wasn’t one to always follow the rules.
The scientists of his day believed in numbers and formulas, and turned up their noses at his zany idea to present
data visually. But Will was sure that his line graphs, bar graphs and pie charts would help people understand
information more easily.
And now, more than a hundred years later, graphs can be found everywhere, from science journals to kindergarten
classrooms!
Lines, Bars and Circles is a playful introduction to a little-known original thinker and the fascinating story of modern infographics.
This vibrantly illustrated graphic novel anthology brings to life the childhood experiences of beloved artists and illustrators such as Wanda Gág, Maurice Sendak, Tove Jansson, Jerry Pinkney, Yuyi Morales and Hayao Miyazaki. Stylish illustrations paired with small vignettes and anecdotes from the artists’ early lives helps illuminate the hard work, triumphs, failures, and inspiration that helped forge their successful careers.
Children will see themselves in these portraits and wonder if they, too, might have it in them to make art. A celebration of creativity, this collective graphic biography is sprinkled throughout with writing wisdom and inspiring quotes.
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