Kelly LightCríticas

"I love art! It's my imagination on the outside....To be a great artist, you have to notice everything."

Louise is an enthusiastic artist, but she's so absorbed in her art that she fails to observe her younger brother, Art, who puts his own stamp on her masterpiece. After an initial dismayed reaction, Louise takes a closer look and changes her mind: "Oh, Art. I love it." Plenty of white space on the page gives ample room for Louise's art (and drama), Art's background activities, and the cat's poses.

See also: Olivia; Fancy Nancy

Louise loves art, which happen to also be the name of her little brother. Louise is engulfed in creating her masterpiece and turning her house into her very own art museum. Her little brother just wants to play with her, but Louise doesn't have time. We see Art making his own pieces in the background of many pictures. Finally, Art takes Louise's masterpiece and cuts it up into his own art, little paper dolls. At first we think Louise will be mad, but then we see her appreciate it and put it right onto their family's fridge. On the final page, we see the brother and sister happily drawing together.
This was a fun read with a cute story. I took away the main idea being that art is different and special for everybody. Louise defines her art by the use of lines and curves, where her brother likes to add color and use scissors. A fun activity would be to read to the class and then create the paper dolls just like the little boy had.

I liked this book for two main reasons. First, I liked the illustrations as the colors on the pages were mostly white and black with accents of red. I thought the accents of red really enhanced the story by drawing the reader’s attention to the little details that were drawn in red. These little details included the main characters, Louise and Art and their glasses and pants as well as little accents in the drawings that Louise made. I also really liked the plot of the book as it revealed a conflict. The conflict was that Art, Louise’s little brother had ruined Louise’s art piece that she was extremely proud of. I think the reason why I enjoyed the conflict was that it shined a light on conflict resolution and seeing the beauty and positivity in everything. At first, Louise was very upset that Art ruined her art piece. However, when she continued to look at her “ruined” artpiece she came to realize that her art piece had now become a new beautiful art piece. When Louise says “It’s your masterpiece. And I know the perfect spot for it” she manages to turn a rather upsetting conflict of having something not go her way (her favorite drawing being cut up by her brother) into something positive (seeing Art’s creativity and being proud of him).

Not quite as good as Louise Loves Bake Sales. Louise brings the class guinea pig, Pigcasso, home for the weekend, but her cat isn't as excited (or is, but not in the right way). Disaster is averted when little brother Art finds Pigcasso in a pile of stuffed animals and they put him safely back in his cage.½

Louise is excited to decorate cupcakes for the bake sale, and she mixes up all colors of icing (color theory!), but then her little brother Art, who's helping, mixes all of the colors together so all of the icing is gray. But that's okay - they make robot cupcakes!

Louise models the kind of imagination and flexible thinking that both art and baking often require.

The illustration style reminds me of Tony Fucile's illustrations for Bink & Gollie by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee.

these girls learn to get over their artistic differences and that its ok to be different, and that you can find the beauty in others work.

This is a great book to teach children how to problem solve when they fight with their friend. In the story the two girls work really hard to create an art project but it gets ruined and they fight. In the end one of the girls finds a way to fix it and the girls become friends again.

Ages 3-6
Pierce College Library

Seattle public library

This book is about two little girls that become friends after they find out they have something in common. One of the girls has just moved into the neighborhood.
Ages 4-8
Pierce county library

This book could be read to children 3-8 years of age. The book is about two young girls who become best friends and have many things in common and one of those is sharing a passion for art. They have a disagreement because their picture had tripped and they stop being friends, until they helped each other problem solved and resolved their issues together.

Source - Pierce County Library

This is a social-moral development book about a girl becoming best friends with her new neighbor. She discovers that they both have something in common, their love of art. But, when their picture gets torn in half they have to work together to make each other happy again.
Ages 3-5
Source - Pierce County Library

This book is about two girls, Louise and Andie. They like art but in different ways. One day Louise got sad because Andie broke her art in half, but later Andie feel bad about it and try to fix it. Together they started a new art project about painting Louise's brother.
Ages 3-5
Pierce County Library

This book highlights the difference between artistic visions amongst friends. Louise and Andie are neighbors who both love art, but they disagree on some aspects of it. They get in an argument, and they end up making up and agreeing to disagree. They learn to love the same thing in different ways.

Louise Loves Art is a clever story told by Kelly Light. A young girl loves art so much it’s her way of expressing herself. As she states in the book, “It’s my imagination on the outside” we know that Louise really enjoys drawing. Louise is on a mission to create a masterpiece. But, Louise runs into one problem, her brother Art. Louise loves her brother Art, but after he ruins her masterpiece she is puzzled by what he has done. After Art has apologized and realized he has done wrong, Louise forgives him and tells him it’s your masterpiece. I loved how the story came together in the end. I felt it was clever after I found out as I was reading that the little brother’s name is also Art. I liked how the author incorporated that into the story.

I loved this book for two reasons. First, I enjoyed the illustrations and the emphasis on the color red. I found that interesting because the rest of the picture would be quite dull in color, but there was always a spark of red in every illustration to emphasize a particular object. For example, when Louise’s brother was drawing over her art, it would be done in red to show the reader what is happening because the text does not mention it in order to show that Louise is not aware of what her brother is up to. Second, the theme of the story was very heart-warming. Louise ended up not being upset with her brother even though he had cut up her masterpiece. I think that is something many children could relate to, especially if they have a sibling. This story is entertaining to read but it also teaches children a good lesson.

This book shows children that even if their friends have disabilities, you can still be friends with them.

The book shows even though we have diffrences we can still be friends

This book is about Louise getting a new neighbor. At first she is excited to have a new friend, but then they start disagreeing.

The story showcases how even if you are different from somebody it should stop you from being friends with them

Louise has a new neighbor, Andie. They have a lot of differences, but Louise uses her love for art to bridge the gap. Louise and Andie must solve their creative differences.

Ages- 3-5
Source- Pierce County Library-Puyallup

The story of this book is about two girls that like different things and the biggest difference between them was art styles. After a disagreement about Louise art, Andie accidentally ript Louise art in haft, he felt really bad about it and tried to fix her mistake. After she fixed the paper Louise and Andie became best friends.
Age: 3-5
Sources: Pierce County Library System

This book tells the story of Louise and her friendship with her new neighbor Andy. They are friends, but they also have differences.
Ages-3-5
Source: Pierce College Library

This book shows how to friends can be different, but still have things in common and be friends. Ages 3-8

This book is very well written in showing how to make up with your friend when you may do something wrong to hurt their feelings. Provides good visual detail and good story line.

This book shows how both Andie and Louise understands their emotions and expresses them in a socially acceptable way. Even though the girls Like the same thing didn't mean they agreed on what to do. They overcame their creative differences. They realize that sometimes friendship is like art it can sometimes need the act of working together to create something flawless.