Art and Fashion books

J have always enjoyed drawing but in recent months, I have noticed a clear pattern. All her free time drawing evolves mostly around girls with long hair in high heels wearing colorfully designed clothes.



So we went to the library to look for some art/fashion books.

Here are some of her favorite:
1. CoCo the Carrot by Steven Salerno (J esp. love this) It was totally by accident we came upon this book but it happens to be about a Carrot named Coco who in an effort to escape the vegetable bin made herself a beautiful hats and eventually arrives at Paris to become a famous hat designer.
2. Different like Coco by Elizabeth Matthews
3. Laurence Anholt series books (Picasso and the Girl with Ponytail; Cezanne and The Apple Boy, The Magic Garden of Claude Monet, My favorite: Matisse the King of Color etc )
4. When Royals wore Ruffles: A fun and fashionable alphabet by C. Mclaren and P. Jaber

*I have been reading Gladwell's "Outlier" and what I'm doing was coined "concerted cultivation" meaning the parents makes an effort to notice/cultivate their children's interest, thus giving the children a sense of "entitlement" (in a good way). Fabulous book, by the way. *