Full name: My Best Friend Is As Sharp As a Pencil: And Other Funny Classroom Portraits

Author: Hanoch Piven Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Art Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780375956294 9780375853388 0375956298 0375853383

Here's the perfect back-to-school gift for budding artists. Like the creator's previous picture book, My Dog Is as Smelly as Dirty Socks, this picture book encourages children to be creative and make their own object portraits. It's a fun activity for home or for the classroom. You can even check out portraits made by other readers in the "kids' gallery" of author Hanoch Piven's Web site, www.pivenworld.com--and while you're at it, send in your own! Learn how to create a funny librarian, a colorful art teacher, or your best friend by seeing how one girl does it in this simple, playful picture book that's comprised of portraits made of objects. Once the girl has talked about--and drawn--the key figures in her school, she ends with the piece de resistance--a class portrait! From the Hardcover edition. Similar books: Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg Mix It Up! by Herve Tullet Zoom by Istvan Banyai Parker Looks Up by Parker Curry The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaola The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau by Jon Agee When Pigasso Met Mootisse by Nina Laden Art Dog by Thacher Hurd Magritte's Marvelous Hat by D. B. Johnson My Blue Is Happy by Jessica Young My Pen by Christopher Myers If I Were a Book by Jose Jorge Letria Simon's Book by Henrik Drescher Roberto: The Insect Architect by Nina Laden Jeremy Draws a Monster by Peter McCarty Museum Trip by Barbara Lehman Grandma in Blue with Red Hat by Scott Menchin