Anywhere: the artist way (Keywords)

Liz Lennon explores topics such as litter, waste, energy use and plastic. In a very gentle way, she encourages children to be green and appreciate the planet.

A heartfelt story about family, exploration and celebrating the great outdoors from award-winning artist, Carolina Rabei. When a little girl loses her fox toy, she discovers it's been taken by a real-life fox cub, but the real fox cub is lost too - can she help it find its way home, with ...

Mole is stuck inside his hole. Every day he tries to get out, and every day the rocks block his way. Mole can't understand it. After all, he's never been any trouble to anyone. Has he? Find out whether Mole will ever get above ground again in this riotously funny story about how NOT to be a g...

An internationally renowned writer, Valeria Costas has dedicated her life to her work and to her secret lover, Marti..n Acla, a prominent businessman. When his sudden stroke makes headlines, her world implodes; the idea of losing him is terrifying. Desperate to find a way to be present during...

Meet Robin Wilde: mum, newly-appointed official girlfriend, make-up artist extraordinaire and general plate-spinning, life-juggling, balance-seeking badass. Or so she likes to think. Everything seems to be slotting into place, not just for Robin but for her close-knit little world of friends an...

In 1520, Albrecht Durer, the most celebrated artist in Northern Europe, sailed to Zeeland to see a whale. As the cynosure of the Renaissance, no one had painted or drawn the world like him. He had drawn a hare or a rhinoceros in the way he painted saints and madonnas. They were all ...

Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman's struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel. Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-ol...

Liz Lennon explores topics such as litter, waste, energy use and plastic. In a very gentle way, she encourages children to be green and appreciate the planet.

David Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960 with his revolutionary photographs for Vogue. Discarding the rigid rules of a previous generation of portrait and fashion photographers, he channelled the energy of London's newly informal street culture into his work. Funny, brutally honest and fer...

William Shakespeare's comedy about four lovers' mishaps in an enchanted forest is unforgettably re-imagined by Shakespeare's Globe as a picture book for very young readers. With detailed illustrations from the acclaimed artist Jane Ray, who has been shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal,...

An epic graphic novel about a jealous witch, a withering curse, and one girl's journey to save her family— no matter the cost. When Vonceil's older brother, Elber, comes home to their family's Oklahoma farm after serving on the front lines of World War I, things aren't what she expects. His ...

Artist Philipp Deines traces the story of now world-famous af Klint's unique life and groundbreaking oeuvre through five chapters featuring her development as an artist, her family background, and her relationship to the spiritual. Highlighting how she came to her distinctive paintings, h...

Follow Jo as he journeys through the world of colour and creativity in an empowering story of confidence and imagination. Jo is a little boy who desperately wants to 'see like an artist'. He tries as hard as he can to see the things the way Mo the artist does, and when he starts to ...

Is it a stone? Or perhaps a cloud? Is that a person or maybe a mountain? Take a closer look inside - what do you see? Barbara Hepworth was a 20th-century British artist who found a way to capture entire worlds in her bold sculptures. Hepworth loved the shapes and textures that she saw in t...

From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, science cannot tell us how to measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or how to sculpt stone into all kinds of shapes...

How to work with a limited palette, with step-by-step demonstrations. One of the world's best art teachers shows you how to give spontaneity and lightness to your work with a limited palette. Using only three colours (up to five at the very most), is the most effective way to give your ar...

March, 1914. When talented artist Isobel embarks on a journey to Egypt, it's to reunite her best friend Alice with her husband, Wilfred - and to use the stunning sights of Cairo as inspiration for her own paintings. A whirlwind romance was the last thing she expected, but when Isobel meets ...

Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan delivers a concise and approachable guide to portrait painting, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations. Whether you are using watercolour, oils or acrylic, 'Learn to Paint Portraits Quickly' explains the key elements of catching a likene...

Does a parent have the right to monitor their child's social media? Should the COVID-19 vaccine be mandatory? Can we still appreciate art if the artist has done terrible things? Is it OK for the police to use facial recognition technology? The best conversations between friends, famil...

Meet the marvellous Michelle Obama: A+ student, passionate piano player, and a girl who's not afraid to dream big. Determined to make the world a better place, the grown up Michelle gets to work in helping the community in whatever way she can. But then she meets and falls in love with ...