The Purple Coat

LeVar takes viewers to the Fashion Institute of Technology and to New York City's garment district to explore the fascinating world of clothing design, where he gets a coat made especially for him. Viewers also meet an artist who creates caricatures of people out of paper mâché.

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The Purple Coat

Every Year Gabby's grandfather, a tailor, makes her a new blue coat. Despite her mother's reminder that "navy blue is what you always get," Gabby begs her grandfather to make her a beautiful purple fall coat.

Author: Amy Hest
Illustrator: Amy Schwartz
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

When Pablito was a small boy, nobody understood him. His mother became angry when he threw temper tantrums or drew on the walls. One day, when he painted his sister with egg yolk, his father was called. Pablito's father was an artist himself, and soon discovered the talent his son had. Pablito behaved the way he did because of the way he saw the world. When Pablito grew up, he still saw the world in his unique way, and became known as Pablo Picasso, a great and masterful artist.

Author: Ibi Lepscky
Translated by: Howard Rodger MacLean
Illustrator: Paolo Cardoni
Publisher: Barron's

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How a Book is Made

How a Book is Made

Describes the stages in making a book, starting with the writing of the manuscript and the drawing of the pictures by the author. All the technical processes leading to printed and bound copies and all the people involved – the designer, the copyeditor and proofreader, the production director, the color separator, and the printer – are described for the reader.

Author: Aliki
Illustrator: Aliki
Publisher: Harper Collins

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The Goat in the Rug

The Goat in the Rug

Geraldine, a goat, describes each step as she and her Navajo friend make a rug, from the hair clipping and carding to the dyeing and the actual weaving.

Author: Charles L. Blood
Illustrator: Nancy Winslow Parker
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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