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Title details for Maybe Something Beautiful by F. Isabel Campoy - Available

Maybe Something Beautiful

How Art Transformed a Neighborhood

by F. Isabel Campoy
Adriana Sananes
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What good can a splash of color do in a community of gray? As Mira and her neighbors discover, more than you might ever imagine! Based on the true story of the Urban Art Trail in San Diego, California, Maybe Something Beautiful reveals how art can inspire transformation-and how even the smallest artists can accomplish something big. Pick up a paintbrush and join the celebration!

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  • Release date

    December 20, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666597172
      • File size: 5236 KB
      • Duration: 00:10:54

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 580
    • Text Difficulty: 2-3

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Adriana Sananes delights in the imagination and hope of young Mira. A doodler, drawer, and painter, Mira shares her creations--an apple, a songbird, a heart--with the people she meets along the street. After she tapes a yellow sun to a drab brick wall and a man with paintbrushes and a vision for "something beautiful" discovers it, a neighborhood transformation begins. Sananes's enthusiasm is evident; Mira's outbursts of joy, the paintbrush man's musings on the wall's possibilities, and even a policeman come through as vivid characters. Accompanying music provides bursts of merengue, cha-cha, and salsa as neighbors come together to paint. An interview with the authors in which they explain the origins of the Urban Art Trail in the East Village of San Diego concludes the production. A.R. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 25, 2016
      Inspired by how illustrator López and his wife, Candice, helped enliven their San Diego neighborhood through art, Campoy and Howell introduce Mira, a young artist who sees possibilities in blank paper and loves to give away her pictures (“She gave a songbird to Mr. Sax and a red heart to the policeman who walked up and down the streets”). Mira finds a kindred spirit in a joyful muralist: “Maybe... something beautiful,” he thinks as he looks at a painting Mira has taped to a dreary wall. As Mira begins contributing her own murals, others join in. Somber gray buildings are soon replaced by electric shades of pink, blue, and orange—the bold shapes, vivid colors, and flattened tableaus of López’s mixed-media artwork bring a mural-like atmosphere to every page as Campoy and Howell deliver a clear, uplifting message about the power of art to revitalize people and their surroundings. Ages 4–7. Agency: Full Circle Literary.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:580
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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