Jan Greenberg

New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art

Heart to Heart 

George E. Ohr, the self-described "Greatest Art Potter on Earth," was an unusual man who made unusual pottery. Though he was virtually unknown after his death in 1918, his legacy thrives today. The coauthor is Sandra Jordan.

George E. Ohr, eccentric genius

The mad potter

Sandra Jordan

"Biography of legendary artist Cindy Sherman"--

Artist, Photographer, Chameleon

Meet Cindy Sherman

A compilation of poems by Americans writing about American art in the twentieth century, including such writers as Nancy Willard, Jane Yolen, and X. J. Kennedy.

Heart to Heart

Imagines Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses.

Action Jackson

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Iceberg and Its Shadow

New research shows that early mathematics knowledge is an important predictor of later school success. Yet maths is one of the most miss understood topics in early childhood. Many people think that maths is simply counting and recognizing numbers through school-based activities, but mathematics is so much more! When parents provide rich, everyday maths experiences at home, children gain a critical foundation for future learning - and an important connection is made between the home and school experience. This easy-to-read, beautifully illustrated booklet shows parents how they can help their children (birth to five years) gain the mathematical thinking and skills they need through incorporating the concepts of number, geometry, measurement, patterns, change, collecting and organising information into their everyday routines and conversation.

What Parents Can Do in the First Five Years

Math Right from the Start

Covers the early life and career of Christo and Jeanne-Claude and then a focus on their 2005 installation in Central Park of over seven thousand saffron panels.

Through the Gates and Beyond

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Introduces the life of renowned modern artist Louise Bourgeois, who is known primarily for her sculptures.

The Artist Louise Bourgeois

Runaway Girl

A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan tell the story behind the scenes of the collaboration that created APPALACHIAN SPRING, from its inception through the score's composition to Martha's intense rehearsal process. The authors' collaborator is two-time Sibert Honor winner Brian Floca, whose vivid watercolors bring both the process and the performance to life.

Making Appalachian Spring

Ballet for Martha

Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist was named a Robert F. Sibert Honor book by the ALA. This is the enthralling biography of the nineteenth-century Dutch painter known for pioneering new techniques and styles in masterpieces such as Starry Night and Vase with Sunflowers. The book cites detailed primary sources and includes a glossary of artists and terms, a biographical time line, notes, a bibliography, and locations of museums that display Van Gogh’s work. It also features a sixteen-page insert with family photographs and full-color reproductions of many of Van Gogh’s paintings. Vincent Van Gogh was named an ALA Notable Book and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and has been selected as a Common Core State Standards Text Exemplar (Grades 6–8, Historical/Social Studies) in Appendix B.

Portrait of an Artist

Vincent Van Gogh

The first children’s book about Dale Chihuly, the world-renowned glass sculptor His crew calls him Maestro. Thousands of fans call him a magician. Over the past five decades, Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) has created some of the most innovative and popular works of art in museums and gardens around the world. Authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan met with Chihuly in his studio for exclusive interviews discussing his early life, his passion for glassblowing, and his dazzling works. Lavishly illustrated with Chihuly’s art and family photographs, this book discusses Chihuly’s workshop and his glassblowing technique. The book includes a step-by-step look at how blown glass is created, a list of places to see Chihuly’s artwork, endnotes, a bibliography, and an index.

The Art of Dale Chihuly

World of Glass

Profiles the turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh from his birth in the Netherlands, through his attempts to be a clergyman, to his years of painting, and finally, to his death in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris. An ALA Notable Book. Reprint.

“IN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY will be world famous for 15 minutes.” The Campbell’s Soup Cans. The Marilyns. The Electric Chairs. The Flowers. The work created by Andy Warhol elevated everyday images to art, ensuring Warhol a fame that has far outlasted the 15 minutes he predicted for everyone else. His very name is synonymous with the 1960s American art movement known as Pop. But Warhol’s oeuvre was the sum of many parts. He not only produced iconic art that blended high and popular culture; he also made controversial films, starring his entourage of the beautiful and outrageous; he launched Interview, a slick magazine that continues to sell today; and he reveled in leading the vanguard of New York’s hipster lifestyle. The Factory, Warhol’s studio and den of social happenings, was the place to be. Who would have predicted that this eccentric boy, the Pittsburgh-bred son of Eastern European immigrants, would catapult himself into media superstardom? Warhol’s rise, from poverty to wealth, from obscurity to status as a Pop icon, is an absorbing tale—one in which the American dream of fame and fortune is played out in all of its success and its excess. No artist of the late 20th century took the pulse of his time—and ours—better than Andy Warhol. Praise for Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist: “This outstanding, well-researched biography is fascinating reading.”—School Library Journal, Starred “Readers will see not just the man but also the paintings anew.”—The Bulletin, Starred “An exceptional biography that reveals the humanity behind the myth.”—Booklist, Starred A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book An ALA Notable Book

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