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Ha inventato uno stile copiato in tutto il mondo, ma c’è un aspetto di Palladio che nessuno conosce. Mentre a Firenze si prepara la festa della Rificolona con le sue lanterne colorate, Nina, Jamal e Lorenzo vengono catapultati nel lontano 1560 a Vicenza, tra le mura di Palazzo Porto. L’incarico assegnato da Mercurio ai ragazzi è più misterioso che mai: il primo passo è raggiungere Palladio, il grande architetto, che sta costruendo la splendida Villa Barbaro a Maser.

Build a traditional Cree tipi. Add the poles to the structure one by one and learn what each pole means.

"It means I'm an artist, just like Michelangelo!" Ida answered. In this fun and delightful story, young listeners are invited on a playdate with Ida as she engages in imaginative play with ordinary common objects. Repetition and rhyming are used in a realistic way to stimulate and celebrate creative thinking in children. The role parents play in nurturing their child's or children's imagination and creativity is vividly illustrated by Ida's affectionate interaction with her mother. 

Meet the cool creatives behind awe-inspiring art, with this non-fiction title for kids. Pour paint onto a canvas with Jackson Pollock, laugh along with the pranks of Hokusai, and find beauty in your self-portrait with Frida Kahlo, as you follow the stories of more than 50 fabulous artists and their groundbreaking work. Through charming storytelling rich in detail, Artists covers celebrated figures as well as lesser-known trailblazers, each with a tale as intriguing as it is unique.

Cars, trains, boats, and planes all come to life on the page with your own personal touch.

Little fingerprint people of all shapes and sizes come to life with your own personal touch.

Cats and dogs, birds and frogs all come to life on the page with your own personal touch.

Es hora de elegir un nuevo Papa. Cientos de miles de personas se reúnen frente a la Basílica de San Pedro para saber quién será el próximo líder de la Iglesia Católica. Una bocanada de humo blanco procedente de una chimenea indica que los cardenales (los "príncipes" de la iglesia) han elegido a uno de los suyos que seguirá siendo el líder de la fe que ha existido durante más de dos mil años.

Nine African American students made history when they defied a governor and integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957. It was the photo of one of the nine trying to enter the school a young girl being taunted, harassed, and threatened by an angry mob that grabbed the world's attention and kept its disapproving gaze on Little Rock, Arkansas.

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing different types of dogs, using circles, squares, triangles, and other simple shapes.

Have you ever seen the Eiffel Tower? Gustave Eiffel’s tower is one of the most recognized landmarks in the world, but it wasn’t an easy path to turn his idea into a reality. Listeners will love learning the story behind the name as they follow along with Gustave’s beginnings as a bridge designer and the engineer behind the Statue of Liberty, the criticism and personal attacks by the media he faced while building the tower, and his eventual world-renowned success.

Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time. She’s lived in so many houses, each more broken than the last, that home to Alice is nothing more than a place you fix and then a place you leave. After all, who needs a permanent home when you’re a whiz at fixing things? But when Alice arrives at her new home, she can’t take her eyes off the house next door, the stately dark house that hulked in the dimming light. The once-grand mansion, now dilapidated and condemned, beckons Alice; it's the perfect new repair job!

In YOU GOTTA MEET MR. PIERCE, young listeners step back in time to visit with Pierce in his Columbus, Ohio barbershop, where, in between cutting customers’ hair, he crafted thousands of figures in wood. They’ll discover how this son of a former enslaved man taught himself to carve, and then went on to become one of the first famous black folk artists, gaining worldwide fame at the age of 81.

Minoru Yamasaki described the feeling he sought to create in his buildings as “serenity, surprise, and delight.” Here, his granddaughter Katie Yamasaki charts his life and work: his childhood in Seattle’s Japanese immigrant community, paying his way through college working in Alaska’s notorious salmon canneries, his success in architectural school, and the transformative structures he imagined and built. A Japanese American man who faced brutal anti-Asian racism in post-World War II America and an outsider to the establishment, he nonetheless left his mark on the world.

This audiobook provides step-by-step instructions for drawing different types of monsters, using circles, squares, triangles, and other simple shapes.

Most famous for his surrealist painting The Persistence of Memory and its melting clocks, Salvador Dalí combined his dreamlike ideas with his excellent technical skills to become one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century. Beyond painting, Dalí pursued the arts in many other mediums including sculpture, film, fashion, photography, architecture, and more. He was friends with many of his famous contemporaries, including Picasso, Bunuel, Miro, and Duchamp.

Hong Mien was tickled by Ha Mi's words, but it was clear at it for her mobile number. You know mi did it because he wanted Tri's phone, but I didn't expect him to text her. Hong Mien tried to focus on listening to lectures, but could not. That's it! It's awkward, so Tri shouldn't have done it because he wasn't delicate at all.

In 1884, Sarah Winchester began building a large mansion in Santa Clara County, California. Under Sarah's direction, the house rose to be seven stories high and filled with mysterious features, including stairs that lead to nowhere and windows that look into other interior rooms. The house is more than just oddly designed, however: Many people believe that it is haunted.

This is Anna. No, this is Anna. Follow along as Anna draws a picture of herself, and see how well she does!

Dans la nuit, au printemps et même en cuisine, il était une fois un Loup... qui découvrait que l'Art était partout ! Qui est Rosa Bonheur ? Est-ce que les peintres y voyaient clair la nuit ? Est-ce que le désordre dans une chambre peut être de l'art ? Est-ce que danser, c'est de l'Art ? C'est à ces questions parfois loufoques, mais pleines de bon sens que Loup, entouré de ces précieux amis, va écouter, sentir, et expérimenter les arts.