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32 pp.
| Candlewick |
August, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-2345-6$14.00
(3)
K-3
Artist Marisol's class sets out to paint a mural for the library, and she excitedly takes on painting the sky. There's no blue paint, but Marisol finds an "all-together new color" for it. In his ode to creativity, Reynolds's delicate small-scale art in pen, ink, watercolor, gouache, and tea is spare and mostly black-and-white, except for bursts of warm "sky color."