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Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Wanting to know about the real man behind the sixteenth president's legendary character, a little girl learns about Lincoln's beliefs regarding universal freedom as well as lesser-known aspects of his life, from his love of Mozart and his wife's vanilla cake to his pet dog and the way he kept notes in his stovepipe hat.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The Principles of Uncertainty is an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country's most beloved artists. The result is a book that is part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and all Kalman. Her brilliant, whimsical paintings, ideas, and images--which initially appear random--ultimately form an intricately interconnected worldview, an idiosyncratic inner monologue....
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Women Holding Things includes the bright, bold images featured in the booklet as well as an additional sixty-seven new paintings highlighted by thoughtful and intimate anecdotes, recollections, and ruminations. Most are portraits of women, both ordinary and famous, including Virginia Woolf, Sally Hemings, Hortense Cezanne, Gertrude Stein, as well as Kalman's family members and other real-life people. These women hold a range of objects, from the...
9) Beloved dog
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Dogs have lessons for us all. In Beloved Dog, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman illuminates our cherished companions as only she can. From the dogs lovingly illustrated in her acclaimed children's books to the real-life pets who inspire her still, Kalman's Beloved Dog is joyful, beautifully illustrated, and, as always, deeply philosophical."--
10) Darling Baby
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
20210601.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the journal she kept when her granddaughter was new, Maira Kalman shares observations about a summer spent with a baby"--
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale."--Amazon.
14) Why we broke up
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Min Green writes a letter to Ed Slaterton in which she breaks up with him, documenting their relationship and how items in the accompanying box, from bottle caps to a cookbook, foretell the end.
16) 13 words
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A dog attempts to cheer up his friend, a despondent bird, in a tale that introduces a series of words from "baby" to "haberdashery."
18) American utopia
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A joyful collaboration between old friends David Byrne and Maira Kalman, American Utopia offers readers an antidote to cynicism, bursting with pathos, humanism, and hope--featuring his words and lyrics brought to life with more than 150 of her colorful paintings. The text is drawn from David Byrne's American Utopia, which has become a hit Broadway show and is soon to be a documentary from Spike Lee. The four-color artwork, by Maira Kalman, which...
