I Want to Be an Artist
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Publishing Details
I Want to Be an Artist
By (Author) Laura Driscoll
Illustrated by Catalina Echeverri
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins
2nd April 2025
United States
Classifications
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Work, politics and society
Educational: First / native language: Readers and reading schemes
702.3
Physical Properties
Paperback
32
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
73g
Description
For any child who loves making art! This Level One I Can Read story by Laura Driscoll, illustrated by Catalina Echeverri, blends narrative with nonfiction, introducing many different kinds of working artists to the young reader.
Papa takes me to an art show and I get to meet a painter and a sculptor.Then we go to Papas workspace.Hes a hand-lettering artist.He takes me to meet the other artists in the building and I get to see how they work.Maybe I will be an artist when I grow up!
Over the course of an exciting day with Papa, our young narrator interacts with a potter, a photographer, an animator, a graphic designer, an illustrator, a cartoon artist, and even a muralist!
Art and artists are everywhere.There are loads of ways to make artand making art doesnt just have to be a hobby.
I Want to Be an Artist is a vibrant addition to the I Can Read series that introduces young readers to important community helpers.Includes a glossary.
- painter
- sculptor
- hand-lettering artist
- potter
- graphic designer
- photographer
- illustrator
- animator
- cartoonist
- botanical illustrator
- muralist
Author Bio
Laura Driscoll has written numerous books for children, including the other books in this series, I Want to Be a Police Officer, I Want to Be a Doctor, and I Want to be a Veterinarian. Laura enjoys going to New York Mets games, volunteer work, and singing in a ten-woman acapella group. She lives in Sunnyside, New York, with her husband. Catalina Echeverri was born in Bogota, Colombia, in 1986. She has a BA in graphic design from the Accademia di Comunicazione (Milano, Italy) and an MA in children's book illustration from Cambridge School of Art, ARU (Cambridge, UK). Catalina likes to write and illustrate her own stories. She is currently working on picture books with both Random House and Bloomsbury Press. Her work has been selected to feature in the Best of British Illustration catalogue in 2012, published by the AOI (Association of Illustrators). Catalina currently lives in London with her husband, William.
