Celebrate creativity and imagination with these picture books! January is International Creativity Month, so now is a great time to explore, with your kids, what it means to be creative, the benefits of creativity, and how mistakes are part of the creative process. You may even find yourself feeling inspired after reading these picks.
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As an artist creatively incorporates her slipups into a drawing, readers see the ways in which ‘mistakes’ can provide inspiration and opportunity, and reveal that both the art and artist are works-in-progress.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby.
A boy and his grandfather cross a language and cultural barrier using their shared love of art, storytelling, and fantasy.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and an eBook on Hoopla.
Every Friday, in the cafeteria, one of the kids gets up in front of the whole school and does something. A performance. Today it’s John’s turn.
Izzy’s unsuccessful knitting projects turn out to be the perfect sweaters for all the dogs in the dog park.
Mira lives in a gray and hopeless urban community until a muralist arrives and, along with his paints and brushes, brings color, joy, and togetherness to Mira and her neighbors.
This title is also available for checkout in print in Spanish and as an eBook on Libby and/or an eBook, eAudio and movie in both English and Spanish on Hoopla.
Told in rhyming text, a young African American boy, stuck inside on a rainy day, uses his imagination to create a rocket ship out of a rocking chair and takes off on a trip to a distant planet.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby.
To an imaginative bunny, a box is not always just a box.
A delicious exploration of the ingredients and methods used to make all kinds of breads that will tickle your taste buds and warm your heart.
Ixchel, a young Mayan girl who is not allowed to use her mother’s thread to weave, exercises her ingenuity and repurposes plastic bags to create colorful weavings
A stunning picture book ode to the joys of the creative process and the spirit of collaboration.