Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood: English Spanish Bilingual Audiobook
Written by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell
Narrated by Adriana Sananes
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About this audiobook
As Mira and her neighbors discover, more than you might ever imagine! Based on the true story of the Urban Art Trail in San Diego, California, Maybe Something Beautiful reveals how art can inspire transformation—and how even the smallest artists can accomplish something big. Pick up a paintbrush and join the celebration!
Experience the story now with this dual English and Spanish edition.
F. Isabel Campoy
F. Isabel Campoy es lingüista por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, especializada en el área de la adquisición de un segundo idioma. Autora prolífica de libros para niños y jóvenes tanto en inglés como español y en una variedad de géneros. Ha sido galardonada por su labor creativa y pedagógica. Es miembro de la Academia Norteamericana de la lengua española.
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Reviews for Maybe Something Beautiful
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book tells the story of Mira, a little girl who lived “in the heart of a gray city,” but who loved to draw and fill her room with color. She decided to pass her pictures around to share the joy she got from brightly colored art. One day she encountered an artist and he helped her paint bright colors on a wall, making it light up like sunshine. Other people soon joined in, drawing pictures on the bricks, adding “color, punch, and pizzazz!” As more and more people participated, “Color spread throughout the streets. So did joy.”Mira and the artist went all around the city, painting bright colors, decorating “with poetry and shine.” The artist told the people, “You my friends, are all artists. The world is your canvas.”As we learn in the Authors’ Note at the end of the book, a true story inspired this book. In fact, it is the story of the award-winning illustrator, Rafael López. He and his wife Candice helped form the “Urban Art Trail,” seeking volunteers of all ages, races, and walks of life to revive their community through art. The group transformed their neighborhood in San Diego’s East Village into a place of beauty. The movement spread as far away as Canada and Australia.The joyous and colorful acrylic illustrations in this book by Rafael López himself have an emphasis on primary shapes and colors. The pictures often take up the whole double-page spread, using fluid shapes and movements to cross the seam between pages. At a website based on the book, you can learn more about the Urban Art Trail and about murals used for beautification around the world. The site even includes a montage of pictures showing murals in many cities, including San Diego. Evaluation: I found the “real” story more interesting than the fictional one. I also thought it was not made clear that random painting on walls is not always legal. But the illustrations are vibrant and interesting, and perhaps will inspire readers to learn more about how they, too, can make a difference in their communities.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5'Maybe Something BEAUTIFUL' was an inspiring picture book that encourages people to be creative! Its a fun read! This book would be fun to read right before an art project for students to feel inspired. It would also be fun for students to think about what parts of their community could possibly benefit from some art. Since this story is based on a true story, students would be able to research the location of where this is story was inspired from.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A wonderful book on the transformative power of art within a community. This book shows how anyone can make the world more beautiful and encourages kids to share their skills and vision with the world. The illustrations go with the text perfectly, starting in drab brown, grey and blacks with limited color but becoming more and more brightly colored and dynamic as more and more of the community become involved in the art project. Based on a true story, the book is illustrated by the muralist character in the book, giving the whole project an authentic and stylistically appropriate feel.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is bright and colorful story about a young girl who helps change her neighborhood from drab gray to fabulous. It's an uplifting story about individuals (neighbors) coming together and solving a problem. There's also an optimistic message of togetherness amidst difference. I think this picture book would be eye-catching during story time. The illustrations are delightfully colorful and the message would be appealing in a dark world filled with division.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Love the community and art that permeate this whole book. Like even more how that is based on a true story of the transformation of a neighborhood.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A young girl named Mira, who takes pleasure in creating beautiful, vibrantly colorful works of art, and giving them to her neighbors, tapes one of her paintings on a neighborhood wall one day, and the results are magical. A muralist appears the next day, and using her painting as a starting point, creates a gorgeous mural that transforms the gray neighborhood, and involves everybody in the project. From one small idea, maybe something beautiful will arise...Inspired by the true story of Rafael López, an artist and muralist who, together with his wide Candice, transformed San Diego's East Village with his Urban Art Trail project, Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood pairs an engaging, heartwarming story with absolutely gorgeous illustrations. López is, in fact, not only the inspiration for co-authors F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell's story, he is the illustrator as well, and if his artwork here is anything to judge by, then his murals must be truly beautiful. I appreciated the messages here, both about the power of art to lift up a community, and get people involved in a common project, and about welcoming everyone as a possible positive contributor. I was particularly struck by the latter, and by the fact that the police officer here is depicted in a positive light, as a member of the community. Given that the police have not always been viewed so positively of late, I thought that was an especially welcome element of the story. Recommended to all young artists, and to anyone looking for children's stories about art and its role in the wider community.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such a sweet story. I found this one really enjoyable and shows a good lesson in kindness.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5First picture book I read to my homeroom for 2019. I'd not read it prior--just picked it up at the Scholastic warehouse sale in December because I thought the illustrations were charming. The story was charming as well, and when I finished, my students said they very much enjoyed it. Had no idea it was a book about the East Village in San Diego--someplace I definitely want to visit now.