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In the genre of Informational Text, Splat! The Most Exciting Artists of All Time by Mary Richards is a fun, creative, and kid-friendly book. Richards did a great job of using a variety of techniques to sequentially display information about various artists throughout history. She included cave paintings from 35,000-10,000 BCE to artists of today. The margins were used to display side notes, along with captioned pictures. Each artist discussed is introduced via a "The Big Idea" heading, which includes basic, yet valuable information about each artist, along with a "playing card" printed at the bottom of the page that depicts a picture of the artist and some facts, which may surprise you, about his/her life. Splat! The Most Exciting Artists of All Time, by Mary Richards would be a hit with anyone wanting to know more about artists throughout history.… (meer)