Great Fiction & Nonfiction Books
Age Level: 3-6 years old


1 2 3: I Can Make Prints!
By: Irene Luxbacher
Age Level: 3-6 years old

1-2-3 I Can Collage!
By: Irene Luxbacher
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A brief explanation of what collage is and a list of readily available materials begins a can-do...

A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi
By: James Yang
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Stones look like birds. And birds look like stones. Imagine a day in the boyhood of Japanese...

A World of Colors: Seeing Colors in a New Way
By: Marie Houblon
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Crisp, color photographs of people and places from around the world are used to introduce and...

Animals: A First Art Book
By: Lucy Micklethwait
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Art
By: Patrick McDonnell
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A young artist named Art lives up to his name and takes the reader on a vibrant journey where...

Begin at the Beginning: A Little Artist Learns About Life
By: Amy Schwartz
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Brush of the Gods
By: Lenore Look
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Wu Daozi's brush created images that seemed to come alive. Travel to ancient China to meet Daozi...

Colores de la Vida
By: Cynthia Weill
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Concept Book
Animal sculptures on carefully composed pages with the color words provide a fine introduction...

Colorful Dreamer: The Story of Artist Henri Matisse
By: Marjorie Blain Parker
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Cooking Art: Easy Edible Art for Young Children
By: Mary Ann Kohl, Jean Potter
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Art is meant to be enjoyed, and sometimes even eaten! Create, then consume, the attractive,...

Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes
By: Hena Khan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Concept Book
Handsomely illustrated, shapes both simple (square, rectangle) and complex (cone, hexagon) are...

Drawn Together
By: Mihn Lê
Age Level: 3-6 years old
A child visits his grandfather but has trouble communicating; they literally don’t speak the...

Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors
By: Hena Khan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
This picture book celebrates Islam's beauty and traditions. From a red prayer rug to a blue...

Josefina
By: Jeanette Winter
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Concept Book
Count along in English and Spanish with a Mexican folk artist as she sculpts her world from clay...

Lily Brown's Paintings
By: Angela Johnson
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Lily Brown loves her family and the world they share, but she also loves to paint and travel the...

Magritte's Marvelous Hat
By: D.B. Johnson
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Making a Great Exhibition
By: Doro Globus
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
How does an artist make a sculpture or a painting? What tools do they use? What happens to the...

Maybe Something Beautiful
By: F. Isabel Campoy, Theresa Howell
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Mira brings color and builds community through her beautiful art which she first gives to...

Mix It Up!
By: Herve Tullet
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Are you ready to shake and mix to make new colors? “Tap the gray spot…to see what happens.”...

Monsters Love Colors
By: Mike Austin
Age Level: 3-6 years old

Painting the Wind
By: Paticia MacLachlan, Emily MacLachlan
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Fiction
Summer has finally arrived to the young narrator’s island home. With it come four different...

The Dot
By: Peter Reynolds
Age Level: 3-6 years old

The Pot that Juan Built
By: Nancy Andrews-Goebel
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
A cumulative poem (in the cadence of "The House that Jack Built") chronicles the work and life...

Visiting the Art Museum
By: Laurene Krasny Brown
Age Level: 3-6 years old
Nonfiction
Enjoy Van Gogh, Picasso, primitive and contemporary art, sculpture, and more with a boy, a girl...
Age Level: 6-9 years old


The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon: The True Story of Alan Bean
By: Dean Robbins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Alan Bean was not the first but the fourth man to walk on the moon. However, he was the first...

A Book About Design: Complicated Doesn’t Make It Good
By: Mark Gonyea
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Concept Book
Attractive, bold and crisp visuals, and a limited text in ten short chapters introduce art and...

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
By: Jen Bryant
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Action Jackson
By: Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Illustrations and text bring to life the work and impact of Jackson Pollack in this riveting...

An Eye for Color: The Story of Josef Albers
By: Natasha Wing
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
As a child, "Josef Albers saw art in the simplest things…" His interest in color and the way...

Art from Her Heart
By: Kathy Whitehead, Shane Evans
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Self-taught artist Clementine Hunter used paint and canvas to record life in the rural south....

Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins
By: Michelle Meadows
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A lyrical picture book biography of Janet Collins, the first African American principal dancer...

Building on Nature: The Life of Antoni Gaudí
By: Rachel Rodriguez
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Chasing Vermeer
By: Blue Balliett
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
As mysterious things happen in and around their Chicago school, Petra and Calder use their...

Creative Crafts for Kids
By: Gill Dickinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Crisp color photographs with numbered instructions and recommended ages make this extensive...

Diego
By: Jonah Winter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The early life of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera is presented in simple, yet revealing language...

Dreamer from the Village: The Story of Marc Chagall
By: Michelle Markel
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Easy-to-Make Pop-Ups
By: Joan Irvine
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Edward Hopper Paints His World
By: Robert Burleigh
Age Level: 6-9 years old
In an afterword, the author asks if an artist can be a hero or an explorer. The answer is sure...

Faith Ringgold
By: Mike Venezia
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
By: Monica Brown
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Featuring charming visuals and lively, often lyrical prose, this picture book introduces Mexican...

Gugu's House
By: Catherine Stock
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Set in Zimbabwe, Kukamba leaves the city to visit her grandmother, Gugu, in her small village....

Hand Art
By: Rachel Tandy
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Create bugs, birds, and more, starting with a pattern of your hand. Easy directions provide...

Hey, Wall: A Story of Art and Community
By: Susan Verde
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
There is a wall in Ángel’s neighborhood. Around it, the community bustles with life: music,...

I Spy Colors in Art
By: Lucy Micklethwait
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A familiar game focuses the reader's eye on fine art, ranging from Picasso to Velaszquez — with...

In Her Hands: The Story of Sculptor Augusta Savage
By: Alan Schroeder
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Augusta Savage was a born artist, making clay figures even as a child. She pursued her passion,...

It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
By: Don Tate
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Jacob Lawrence
By: Mike Venezia
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Let's Make It Pop-Up
By: David Carter, James Diaz
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Look! Body Language in Art
By: Gillian Wolfe
Age Level: 6-9 years old
How does classical art relate to contemporary children? By recognizing that there are universal...

Magical Life of Mr. Renny
By: Leo Timmers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
With the help of a little bit of magic, Mr. Renny's paintings come to life, literally. But when...

Masterpiece Mix
By: Roxie Munro
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
As an artist lays out tools needed to paint, she seeks inspiration from the masters. Along the...

Museum Trip
By: Barbara Lehman
Age Level: 6-9 years old

My Name is Georgia: A Portrait
By: Jeannette Winter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
"When I was twelve years old, I knew what I wanted — to be an artist." So begins this lovely...

My Pen
By: Christopher Myers
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
A boy in a fedora uses his pen to travel, grow, “make giants of old men/who have seen better...

Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci
By: Gene Baretta
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Even though Leonardo da Vinci lived a long time ago (born in 15th century Florence), his ideas...

Piñata Maker/el piñatero
By: George Ancona
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
By: Javaka Steptoe
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Jean-Michel Basquiat, an American artist born of a Haitian father and a Brooklyn born mother of...

Ralph Masiello's Ancient Egypt Drawing Book
By: Ralph Masiello
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Sandy's Circus: A Story about Alexander Calder
By: Tanya Lee Stone
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Alexander Calder — Sandy — had a vivid imagination and a fascination with the circus; his...

Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
By: Susan Hood
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
This book of poems introduces fourteen revolutionary young women—each paired with a noteworthy...

Shaped By Her Hands: Potter Maria Martinez
By: Anna Harber Freeman
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
The most renowned Native American Indian potter of her time, Maria Povika Martinez learned...

Sister Corita’s Words and Shapes
By: Jeanette Winter
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A picture book biography of Sister Corita, a nun, educator, and activist who became a celebrated...

Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee!
By: Andrea J. Loney
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
James VanDerZee (1886–1983) was a prolific photographer who used his camera to capture the...

The Bluest of Blues: Anna Atkins and the First Book of Photographs
By: Fiona Robinson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Born in England in the early 19th century, Anna was encouraged by her father to observe, study,...

The Book of Mistakes
By: Corinna Luyken
Age Level: 6-9 years old
A mistake: a splat of ink. In fact, “it started with one mistake.” That mistake became a...

The Colors of Us
By: Karen Katz
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her...

The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
By: Natashcha Biebow
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
You may not have heard of Edwin Binney but chances are you’ve used his invention: Crayola...

The East-West House: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan
By: Christy Hale
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
A biography of Isamu Noguchi, Japanese American artist, sculptor, and landscape architect,...

The First Drawing
By: Mordicai Gerstein
Age Level: 6-9 years old
An illustration of a contemporary boy with pencil in hand stands in front of a blank piece of...

The Great Art Caper
By: Victoria Jamieson
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Fiction
GW, the hamster enjoys his evenings with his animal friends and is even beginning to like the...

The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane
By: C.M. Millen
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Brother Theophane is unlike the other monks in the mountains of Mourne (Ireland). While most...

The Jumbo Book of Outdoor Art
By: Irene Luxbacher
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Full-color illustrations combine with clear instructions organized into four sections drawn from...

The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art
By: Barb Rosenstock
Age Level: 6-9 years old

The Secret Cave: Discovering Lascaux
By: Emily Arnold McCully
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
While looking for gold, four French boys accidentally discovered what was to be considered the...

The Sound of Colors
By: Jimmy Liao
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Vincent Can't Sleep: Van Gogh Paints the Night Sky
By: Barb Rosenstock
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Nonfiction
Vincent Van Gogh often had trouble sleeping. As a child, his parents fussed but Vincent...

Viva Frida
By: Yuyi Morales
Age Level: 6-9 years old

Wanda Gag, the Girl Who Lived to Draw
By: Deborah Ray
Age Level: 6-9 years old
The author/illustrator of much-loved picture books is introduced here from her Minnesota...

What Can You Do With a Paper Bag?
By: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Age Level: 6-9 years old
With a paper bag and a few other supplies, kids can make history come to life, travel to far-off...

Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art
By: Belinda Rochelle
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
African-American poetry and art take wing and soar in this collection compiled by Belinda...

World Make Way: New Poems Inspired by Art from the Metropolitan Museum
By: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Poetry
What does a piece of art make you feel? This is what the poet/editor, Lee Bennett Hopkins, asked...

Yellowstone Moran: Painting the American West
By: Lita Judge
Age Level: 6-9 years old
Tom Moran dreamed of seeing the western United States, painting places that were unknown to most...
Age Level: 9-12 years old


Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop
By: Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Andy Warhol became well-known as an artist whose impact on pop culture continues to be felt....

Black Artists Shaping the World
By: Sharna Jackson
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Dedicated to the work of contemporary Black artists from around the world, this engaging book...

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Through the Gates and Beyond
By: Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Orange fabric created The Gates which unfurled in New York’s Central Park to temporarily...

Firebird
By: Misty Copeland
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Misty Copeland, the African American Ballet Theater soloist, has an encouraging conversation...

Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
By: Roxanne Orgill
Age Level: 9-12 years old
In 1958, photographer Art Kane gathered up a who’s who of jazz musicians on a New York City...

Lives of the Artists: Masterpieces, Messes (and What the Neighbors Thought)
By: Kathleen Krull
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Short, clever, sometimes irreverent snapshots introduce a range of artists and their...

Meet Matisse
By: Jean-Vincent Senac
Age Level: 9-12 years old
An unnamed narrator dreams he has visited the studio of artist Henri Matisse where he meets the...

Murals: Walls That Sing
By: George Ancona
Age Level: 9-12 years old

Stone Giant: Michelangelo’s David and How He Came to Be
By: Jane Sutcliffe
Age Level: 9-12 years old

The Inker’s Shadow
By: Allen Say
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
The author/illustrator’s look back at his early years started in...

The Secret World of Walter Anderson
By: Hester Bass
Age Level: 9-12 years old
Nonfiction
Walter Anderson "may be the most famous American artist you've never heard of." But he and his...

You Call That Art?!
By: David Carter
Age Level: 9-12 years old
In an attractive, sturdy package, readers are invited to learn about the history of sculpture...