Imagination runs wild on eight tiny legs in this fun adventure book by La Grange artist-turned-author Christine Banks. Join Beanie the Spider as she floats, flies and sails the seas of imagination! Taking place in a fine art gallery featuring real artwork, Adventures of Beanie the Spider is a creative way to introduce children to art galleries and spark interest in the arts. Inspired by a spider living on one of Christine's paintings, it's a sweet story about imagination, adventure, and friendship. Written in rhyme, it's fun for adults to read to children and for young independent readers -- a repeatable favorite for the whole family. Enjoy engaging after-the-story activities at the end of the book.
Join Beanie the Spider as she floats, flies and sails the seas of imagination in book 2 of this fun & artsy adventure series! In this story, Beanie helps a new friend while going on a new make-believe adventure in her fine art gallery. Taking place in a fine art gallery featuring real artwork, Adventures of Beanie the Spider is a creative way to introduce children to art galleries and spark interest in the arts. Inspired by a spider living on one of Christine's paintings, it's a sweet story about imagination, adventure, and friendship. Written in rhyme, it's fun for adults to read to children and for young independent readers ? a repeatable favorite for the whole family. Enjoy engaging after-the-story activities at the end of the book.
This Holiday season, a Santa in need, needs a Beanie indeed! When Santa makes an emergency stop at the art gallery where Beanie the Spider lives, and there is no one around to help, a tiny spider comes to the rescue. Written in rhyme, it's fun for adults to read to children and for young independent readers alike. The adventures continue with engaging after-the-story activities at the end of each book. A repeatable favorite for the whole family, with more stories on the way!
A musical reception has come to Beanie's art gallery, but her friend, the Kid, is missing! Follow along in the Adventures of Beanie the Spider as she explores her surroundings in a fine art gallery -- learning new things and making new friends along the way. Bonus! After-the-Story activities are included at the end of the book.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author “It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read.”—The Washington Post Book World One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Decade • Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize A “towering, swash-buckling thrill of a book” (Newsweek), hailed as Chabon’s “magnum opus” (The New York Review of Books), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a triumph of originality, imagination, and storytelling, an exuberant, irresistible novel that begins in New York City in 1939. A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant corner of Brooklyn, Sammy is looking for a way to cash in on the craze. He finds the ideal partner in the aloof, artistically gifted Joe, and together they embark on an adventure that takes them deep into the heart of Manhattan, and the heart of old-fashioned American ambition. From the shared fears, dreams, and desires of two teenage boys, they spin comic book tales of the heroic, fascist-fighting Escapist and the beautiful, mysterious Luna Moth, otherworldly mistress of the night. Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building, Joe and Sammy carve out lives, and careers, as vivid as cyan and magenta ink. Spanning continents and eras, this superb book by one of America’s finest writers remains one of the defining novels of our modern American age. Winner of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and the New York Society Library Book Award
