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A rhyming tribute to a budding young artist.

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A rhyming tribute to a budding young artist.

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Art serves as a boy's name and favorite pastime in this cheerful sequence, which echoes Crockett Johnson's Harold and the Purple Crayon. McDonnell (The Gift of Nothing) lures readers along with antic visuals and a catchy rhyming text about "Art and his art/ Can you tell them apart?" The boy stands about an inch-and-a-half tall in the squarish pages, and in one Jackson Pollock-esque spread, he is indeed covered in his medium. Wearing his blue baseball hat backward and attired in Dennis the Menace fashion, he reaches with a brush to fill the vast white space all around him with red, yellow and blue daubs and spatters, zigzags and spirals, drips and dots. Then he grabs a thick black pencil and doodles a flat house, a basic tree and a cartoon dog. All this activity wears him out, and when he wakes from a nap, he sees his creations tacked to the fridge: "Held there by magnets/ (stars and a heart)/ Put there by mother/ 'Cause mother loves Art." The hero, drawn neatly in a clean black line, with his compact body, shock of hair and giant smile, recalls everybody from Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid to Bill Watterson's Calvin. McDonnell takes a familiar topic-an imaginative boy who loves to draw-and injects this volume with an exuberant comic-strip sensibility. Ages 3-6. (Apr.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Talented cartoonist Patrick McDonnell, whose comic strip Mutts is widely syndicated throughout the country, has produced a simple but thought-provoking picture book for young readers. The title is a double entendre, both the name of the young protagonist and his obsession. Yes, Art is an artist, whose brush produces graceful pastel-colored squiggles, dramatic splatters, intricate repetitive lines, and a myriad of other shapes. He races from page to page with dizzying energy, producing abstractions that ultimately resolve themselves into doodles illustrating a dream almost as energetic as Art himself. And when Art wakes up, he finds his pictures displayed on the refrigerator because, as McDonnell endearingly puts it, "MOTHER LOVES ART." This would make a delightful read-aloud book for the very young, with its play on words and simple, rhyming text, as well as the engaging illustrations in the artist's signature style. 2006, Little Brown and Company, Ages 3 to 5.
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School Library Journal
PreS-Gr 3-In a play on words that carries throughout the story, Art, a young boy, joyfully tries his hand at all kinds of art. He "DRAWS SCRIBBLES THAT SQUIGGLE," "SPLOTCHES WITH BLOTCHES," "ZIGS" and "ZAGS," doodles and dogs, and so much more. His creations, rendered in watercolor and crayon, extend from the drizzles on the title page to swirls and curls and Jackson Pollock-like spreads until the doodles become a picture in which Art and his dog blast off for the moon: "THERE'S NO STOPPING ART...WHEN ART IS INSPIRED." He falls asleep amid his work and awakens to find it on the refrigerator, "PUT THERE BY MOTHER 'CAUSE MOTHER LOVES ART." The rhyming text is brief and takes a backseat to the little boy's exuberant pictures. This story, along with Peter H. Reynolds's The Dot (Candlewick, 2003), can free up hesitant artists to let their talent shine.-Marianne Saccardi, formerly at Norwalk Community College, CT Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
Art's art moves and explodes. There are splatters, squiggles and curls, zigs, zags and doodles and loads of color. After all that energetic creativity, Art "flops in a heap / and among his creations / he falls fast asleep." When he awakens, his drawings are on the refrigerator, placed there by his mother because she loves Art. McDonnell's minimalist rhyming text flies across the pages in large bold block letters. Even the youngest reader can discern the basic pun, and more sophisticated readers will enjoy finding deeper variations. It is both a slight tale of a creative child and a glimpse into the nature of art. The primary color illustrations are exuberant and joyful and seamlessly match the text. Art runs from page to page with paintbrush or colored pencil, drawing as he goes, paying direct homage to Harold and the Purple Crayon. Harold now has a perfect companion in Art. Sheer delight. (Picture book. All ages)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780316114912
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Publication date: 4/12/2006
  • Pages: 48
  • Sales rank: 115,356
  • Age range: 4 - 6 Years
  • Product dimensions: 8.37 (w) x 9.25 (h) x 0.37 (d)

Meet the Author

Patrick McDonnell
Patrick McDonnell

Patrick McDonnell is the creator of the Mutts comic strip, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. He has illustrated for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, Time, Parents, and other journals, done CD covers for the Greatest Hit classical music series, and created a license plate for his home state of New Jersey. Hailed as "the next Charles Schulz," Patrick sits on the board of directors of the Humane Society of the United States, and has won numerous awards for both Mutts and his animal welfare work. He is the co-author of Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman and also contributed a story to Little Lit: It Was a Dark and Silly Night, edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly (HarperCollins, 2003).

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 4, 2008

    Inspiring

    This book encourages children to be artists and promotes fun lessons and art ideas!

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