num_pages: 40
description: Here's the perfect back-to-school gift for budding artists. Like the creator's previous picture book My Dog Is as Smelly as Dirty Socks this picture book encourages children to be creative and make their own object portraits. It's a fun activity for home or for the classroom. You can even check out portraits made by other readers in the kids' gallery of author Hanoch Piven's Web site www.pivenworld.comand while you're at it send in your own!Learn how to create a funny librarian a colorful art teacher or your best friend by seeing how one girl does it in this simple playful picture book that's comprised of portraits made of objects. Once the girl has talked aboutand drawnthe key figures in her school she ends with the pice de rsistancea class portrait!From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: My Best Friend Is As Sharp As a Pencil: And Other Funny Classroom Portraits
publisher: Schwartz & Wade