Youth Services Librarian Amanda joins us to promote the 'Color Our World' Summer Reading Challenge which opened on June 14th and goes through August 9th. Learn more and register by visiting oakcreeklibrary.org/src. Or, visit our events calendar to stay up to date on all of the fun activities that will keep you and your family busy this summer: oakcreeklibrary.org/events.
Check out what we talked about:
Books mentioned:
Instructional drawing books by Ed Emberley and Ralph Masiello. "In Search of Van Gogh: Capturing the Life of the Artist Through Photographs and Paintings" by Gloria Fossi with readalike "Monet: the Restless Vision" by Jackie Wullschläger. "10 Cats: A Chaotic Colourful Counting Book" by Emily Gravett with readalike "Where’s My Cat?" by Seymour Chwast. "Painting Tools & Materials: A Practical Guide to Paints, Brushes, Palettes and More" by Elizabeth T. Gilbert with readalike "The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature" by Cathy Johnson. "Art Club" by Rashad Doucet with readalike series "Cat Kid Comic Club" by Dav Pilkey.
Websites mentioned:
The Met Collection – https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection
Art Collecting Information and Gallery Guides – https://art-collecting.com/index.htm
To access complete transcripts for all episodes of Not Your Mother's Library, please visit: oakcreeklibrary.org/podcast
The following music was used for this media project:
"Radio Martini" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Somewhere Sunny (ver 2)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Malt Shop Bop" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Super Friendly" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Porch Swing Days - faster" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Wallpaper" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Life of Riley" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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