Beth Kephart - And I Paint It

And I Paint It — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "And I Paint It" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

123

Table of Contents

Guide

And I Paint T

Kephart BAtes

For Bill, who drove the many miles

so that I might see B.K.

To Elise and Emily A.J.B.

With thanks to my husband, the artist William Sulit; Michael Hurd and Denise Dorn of the Hurd La

Rinconada Gallery; my agent, Karen Grencik; the entire Cameron Kids team; and, of course,

Amy June Bates, whose illustrations for this book are so beautiful that I still cry when I see them.

Finally, for their enormous good-heartedness and for the time they spent helping to clarify facts and

finalize permissions, I thank Mary Cronin, dean of education & public programs of Brandywine River

Museum of Art; Karen Baumgartner of the Museum's Andrew Wyeth Office; and Rebecca Moore,

director of Somerville Manning Gallery, who, together with Frank E. Fowler, said yes when we asked if

we could include the beautiful still life you see in the back of the book.

Text copyright 2021 Beth Kephart

Illustration copyright 2021 Amy June Bates

Book design by Melissa Nelson Greenberg

Published in 2021 by Cameron + Company, a division of ABRAMS. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced,

stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording,

or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available.

ISBN: 978-1-951836-04-7

eISBN: 978-1-64700-330-2

Cameron Kids is an imprint of Cameron + Company

Cameron + Company

Petaluma, California

www.cameronbooks.com

A

nd

nd

I

P

aint

aint

It

HENR

HENRIETTE

ETTE WYE

WYETHS WO

S WORLD

LD

by Beth Kephart

by Beth Kephart

illustrated by Amy June Bates

illustrated by Amy June Bates

Wherever in our world

we want to go, we go

Pa and me.

To the slosh of the creek.

To the blackberry vine.

To the garden of red and yellow wings.

To the up and down of our battleground,

and the edge over edge of our sky.

Awaken into your dreams,

Pa says,

and I think of the girl I am and the girl Ill be:

A painter, like Pa.

An actress (maybe).

A fairy with wings.

Shhhh,

Pa says, because Carolyn

is in the henhouse, clucking,

not talking to Pa

finally,

not talking to me.

Shhhh,

he says, and we are down the hill now,

away from the henhouse, away from Nat,

who is at his workbench, building

another ship to sail,

another boat to float.

Pa is courteous to the blossom blooms,

and the dirt-road blooms,

and the blooms of thunderclouds.

His big hand is red-and-blue-and-purple freckled,

his old coat smells like apple cores and packing

moss and turpentine.

Love the object for its own sake, Henriette,

Pa says,

only to me,

pointing to the flower,

fine and lucky on its stem,

a fringe for the field.

Its just us, our world, and we paint it.

We paint the nuts in the roots of the trees.

We paint the puff of a train over the clatter of a track,

the green growing into the cap of a strawberry,

Next page

123

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «And I Paint It»

Look at similar books to And I Paint It. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Beth Moore

Looking Up When Life Is Looking Down

Beth Kephart

Ghosts in the Garden: Reflections on Endings, Beginnings, and the Unearthing of Self

Beth Moore

Jesus, the One and Only

Horace Kephart

The Account of Mary Rowlandson and Other Indian Captivity Narratives

Beth J. Shaw

Beth Shaws YogaFit

Kephart

The Heart is Not a Size

Kephart

Handling the truth: on the writing of memoir

Horace Kephart

Our Southern Highlanders

Beth Matuska

Know Before You Go

Paula Kephart

Breaking Your Dogs Bad Habits

Paula Kephart

Grooming your dog: a natural and herbal approach

Paula Kephart

Housebound dogs: how to keep your stay-at-home dog happy & healthy

Discussion, reviews of the book And I Paint It and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.