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I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
A New York Times best-selling masterpiece featuring a sing-song rhyming text and humorous energetic illustrations about a spirited child and outside-the-box, creative thinking.
When the child gets caught painting everything from the ceiling to the floor, Mama says "Ya ain't a-gonna paint no more!" But nothing will keep this artist from painting! Written to the familiar tune "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More," the text bounces alongside vibrant stylized pen-and-ink drawings, while page-turns offer up a fun read-aloud guessing game in which kids will delightfully participate. What will the child paint next? "So I take some red and I paint my . . . HEAD!" Silliness paired with the ruckus read-aloud appeal will have every reader begging for repeat reads.
When the child gets caught painting everything from the ceiling to the floor, Mama says "Ya ain't a-gonna paint no more!" But nothing will keep this artist from painting! Written to the familiar tune "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More," the text bounces alongside vibrant stylized pen-and-ink drawings, while page-turns offer up a fun read-aloud guessing game in which kids will delightfully participate. What will the child paint next? "So I take some red and I paint my . . . HEAD!" Silliness paired with the ruckus read-aloud appeal will have every reader begging for repeat reads.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2005
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Karen Beaumont
28 books81 followersKaren Beaumont is the New York Times bestselling author of many award-winning picture books. She lives in Scotts Valley, California.
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May 20, 2017
Art is love.. Art is inspiration. Who doesn't like colors & paints! :)
This lil kid is no more different when it comes to creating Art in anyway he likes. He has fun with paints in his own way.. He just colors everything. :P :O
We all know that its wrong to treat paints like that but hey... he's just a child behaving like a child :)
The book is here >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSUUc...
This lil kid is no more different when it comes to creating Art in anyway he likes. He has fun with paints in his own way.. He just colors everything. :P :O
We all know that its wrong to treat paints like that but hey... he's just a child behaving like a child :)
The book is here >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSUUc...
March 7, 2024
I featured this book in my favorite books of 2016 blog post but somehow never got around to reviewing it. An art teacher at a school I used to teach at had this book in her classroom and I borrowed it from her, repeatedly borrowed it from the town library, and finally bought my own copy. Each of my classes has enjoyed this book and several my students learned it by heart.
The book pretty much has it all - infectious rhyming, laugh out loud humor, a simple but engaging story, and expressive, bright and cheerful art. It's joyous, it's delightful, it's messy, and it gleefully celebrates the intersection of art and sensory and the sheer delight of self-expression. I smile every time I read it and every time I read it, I start singing it. There's no song that goes with it but the rhyme suggests a tune and I have fun with it. As I read it, the children and I talk about the events in the book, and the images, and they try to predict what will happen next. They laugh at the boy and many of them can relate to his joy and his messiness. As a toddler teacher, I am all for children getting messy while playing, and believe that art at their age can and should be sensory. That said, I do feel for the poor mother in the book cleaning up the mess. I hope that, off page, he helped clean up. I do have my students help clean up when we do art and/or sensory activities.
This is a delightful book that every young child, and every library and classroom, should have.
The book pretty much has it all - infectious rhyming, laugh out loud humor, a simple but engaging story, and expressive, bright and cheerful art. It's joyous, it's delightful, it's messy, and it gleefully celebrates the intersection of art and sensory and the sheer delight of self-expression. I smile every time I read it and every time I read it, I start singing it. There's no song that goes with it but the rhyme suggests a tune and I have fun with it. As I read it, the children and I talk about the events in the book, and the images, and they try to predict what will happen next. They laugh at the boy and many of them can relate to his joy and his messiness. As a toddler teacher, I am all for children getting messy while playing, and believe that art at their age can and should be sensory. That said, I do feel for the poor mother in the book cleaning up the mess. I hope that, off page, he helped clean up. I do have my students help clean up when we do art and/or sensory activities.
This is a delightful book that every young child, and every library and classroom, should have.
January 15, 2015
I don't think it's appropriate or funny that this little kid vandalizes his own house! Poor mother! -_-
June 11, 2015
Beautiful book, cute story. Only loses a star for getting that damn song stuck in my head.
August 2, 2013
Here's another book I picked up at a library sale for .50 cents and it was so worth it. I've read it several times and both my 5 yr old and twin 3 yr olds love it. Not enough words for a level 1 reading book, it's a book more suited to a family reading. The bright colorful pictures of the boy painting himself and the walls of his room fascinated my 3 yr olds, because they knew he was being very naughty. But it looked like so much fun! (You could just see this in their eyes as they listened!) My 5 yr old enjoyed the story and the types of paintings he did, like when he painted the line of ants marching up his arm and into the mouth of the creature he'd made his hand into. I myself really enjoyed the paintings. Made me want to get out my watercolors. Overall a great addition to any library.
May 21, 2008
CIP: In the rhythm of a familiar folk song, a little white boy glories in covering himself with paint, one body part at a time.
Review: Good solid rhythm in the storytelling, combined with rhymes that allow listeners to guess which body part the little boy will paint next. The ink line drawings – of the boy, his comical dog, and his mother – on a white background make a great contrasting space for the glorious paint colors … some splashed and scribbled, some wonderfully decorative. Lots of humor, lots to look at, and plenty of participation. The only drawback is that the relatively small size will make it difficult for children in medium- and large-sized groups to fully appreciate the illustrations. A fine book both for preschool storytelling and for family reading.
(SLJ) Starred review. “With rhymes that invite audience participation and scenes that draw the eye, this is a strong storytime choice.”
(Kirkus) “The bounce of the song is echoed in an animated typography in which not one word is horizontally aligned. Here's one that kids will beg for again and again and again.”
Review: Good solid rhythm in the storytelling, combined with rhymes that allow listeners to guess which body part the little boy will paint next. The ink line drawings – of the boy, his comical dog, and his mother – on a white background make a great contrasting space for the glorious paint colors … some splashed and scribbled, some wonderfully decorative. Lots of humor, lots to look at, and plenty of participation. The only drawback is that the relatively small size will make it difficult for children in medium- and large-sized groups to fully appreciate the illustrations. A fine book both for preschool storytelling and for family reading.
(SLJ) Starred review. “With rhymes that invite audience participation and scenes that draw the eye, this is a strong storytime choice.”
(Kirkus) “The bounce of the song is echoed in an animated typography in which not one word is horizontally aligned. Here's one that kids will beg for again and again and again.”
January 18, 2018
I read this for Toddler Storytime yesterday, and it was a lot of fun! The artwork is awesome, with lots of fun colors on every page! And it is a very rhythmic book, that you can sing along to. The kids had a great time guessing which body part would get painted next. Only one (slightly) negative moment: I had one parent say loudly "Ain't is NOT a word" right in the beginning of the story. I should have thought about how I could have responded to that when I first read the picture book several weeks ago (I read all of the storytime books before I actually read them to kids!!! That is so important! So, yeah, my actual "read" date for Goodreads is wrong.)
After storytime, we did mess-free painting! I put cardstock inside of a ziploc bag, and squirted painted into each bag before zipping it up and letting the kids finger paint without getting anything on them. (link to mess free painting: http://lifeasmama.com/9-no-mess-activ...)
After storytime, we did mess-free painting! I put cardstock inside of a ziploc bag, and squirted painted into each bag before zipping it up and letting the kids finger paint without getting anything on them. (link to mess free painting: http://lifeasmama.com/9-no-mess-activ...)
March 8, 2014
I love this book for small children. I have read this to kindergarten and they get the simple rhythm of the speech and are able to fill in the rhymes when you pause. The words are so memorable they can remember and retell it to buddies. This would be a wonderful book to use in early instruction at the beginning of K when students are working on phonemic awareness and hearing word parts.
Basically it is about a very naughty boy creating a big mess as he paints himself all over the place. The pictures are very vivid and the text minimal, so I would define it as a picture book.
Basically it is about a very naughty boy creating a big mess as he paints himself all over the place. The pictures are very vivid and the text minimal, so I would define it as a picture book.
October 13, 2020
One of my favorites for storytime!
March 13, 2019
Using the song "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More" as a starting point, author Karen Beaumont spins a rhyming tale about a young boy who just can't seem to stop painting - especially himself! Full of exuberance, and a love of bright colors, his painterly instincts break out, even after his mother had forbidden him from continuing. The only thing that can put an end to his artistic depredations is... running out of paint!
Although unfamiliar with the song upon which it is based, I found I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! quite entertaining, and was reminded a bit of stories like A Day with No Crayons , about a girl who marks up her bedroom wall, and Oh, Were They Ever Happy! , about a group of children left home alone on a Saturday, who paint their house (and themselves). These sorts of associations are always welcome to me, and increased my enjoyment of Beaumont's tale and artist David Catrow's colorful illustrations. Recommended to all young would-be painters, who feel they simply can't contain the creative impulses within...
Although unfamiliar with the song upon which it is based, I found I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! quite entertaining, and was reminded a bit of stories like A Day with No Crayons , about a girl who marks up her bedroom wall, and Oh, Were They Ever Happy! , about a group of children left home alone on a Saturday, who paint their house (and themselves). These sorts of associations are always welcome to me, and increased my enjoyment of Beaumont's tale and artist David Catrow's colorful illustrations. Recommended to all young would-be painters, who feel they simply can't contain the creative impulses within...
March 25, 2011
Fun, colorful illustrations and a catchy tune combine to make a fun story to read aloud. The only concern anyone could have is over the bad grammar, although that's part of the song, and I suppose, part of the charm. The illustrations are wonderful and full of crazy colors and designs! Our girls loved this book and our youngest insisted on singing the refrain each time in her loudest voice. Fun and silly - we really enjoyed reading this book aloud together. We've borrowed this book a couple of times from the library - our youngest loves that she can read it herself and she reads/sings it over and over.
February 23, 2008
This book makes me happy. She is such a funny girl. I want to paint my body too.
April 1, 2009
We start with a bouncy rhythm, as the kid describes how his paints got taken away.
Then he gleefully (to the tune of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", of course) sneaks to the closet starts painting his whole body (and, incidentally, the rest of the pristine white house!)
I love the color, and I love the rhythm. Seriously, I'm reading this every day to my two nieces, age 5 and 3. They can't get enough of it!
I will note that there is a scene where the kid almost paints his (now naked) butt (singing "But I'm such a nut, I'm gonna paint my...." before his mother walks in with a timely "WHAT?!?" to end the fun again), and, of course, this whole book is about a child misbehaving willfully (he climbed onto several boxes to retrieve his paint from the closet, after his mother told him to stop at the start of the book). But it's such fun that I think so long as you're clear that This Is Not Cool In Real Life that your children won't misunderstand and start misbehaving in your own home.
Then he gleefully (to the tune of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", of course) sneaks to the closet starts painting his whole body (and, incidentally, the rest of the pristine white house!)
I love the color, and I love the rhythm. Seriously, I'm reading this every day to my two nieces, age 5 and 3. They can't get enough of it!
I will note that there is a scene where the kid almost paints his (now naked) butt (singing "But I'm such a nut, I'm gonna paint my...." before his mother walks in with a timely "WHAT?!?" to end the fun again), and, of course, this whole book is about a child misbehaving willfully (he climbed onto several boxes to retrieve his paint from the closet, after his mother told him to stop at the start of the book). But it's such fun that I think so long as you're clear that This Is Not Cool In Real Life that your children won't misunderstand and start misbehaving in your own home.
October 20, 2009
*Non-print text: Listened to book on CD
A dab of blue here, a splash of red there, a goopy smear of green . . . everywhere. To the tune of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More," one creative kid floods his world with color, painting first the walls, then the ceiling, then HIMSELF! Before this feisty artist is through, he'll have painted his head, back, hands, legs, feet, and . . . Oh no--here comes Mama!
This book will become a favorite in your classroom for you and your students! I loved listening to it on CD because the way it was read allowed time for the audience to make a rhyming predication and be excited to turn the page. The text in the book is extremely catchy making the reader/listener want more. The illustrations in the book are fantastic. They are filled with bright colors which will guarantee an engaged audience. I would us this book for young students to work on Rhyming, but would also pick it up to give my students and I a smile!
A dab of blue here, a splash of red there, a goopy smear of green . . . everywhere. To the tune of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More," one creative kid floods his world with color, painting first the walls, then the ceiling, then HIMSELF! Before this feisty artist is through, he'll have painted his head, back, hands, legs, feet, and . . . Oh no--here comes Mama!
This book will become a favorite in your classroom for you and your students! I loved listening to it on CD because the way it was read allowed time for the audience to make a rhyming predication and be excited to turn the page. The text in the book is extremely catchy making the reader/listener want more. The illustrations in the book are fantastic. They are filled with bright colors which will guarantee an engaged audience. I would us this book for young students to work on Rhyming, but would also pick it up to give my students and I a smile!
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July 12, 2015I liked this book, however, if I read it in my classroom, I would ensure that the children knew that this is not always the most proper way to speak. With kindergarteners, we could go into a conversation about speaking differently depending on who we are talking to and where we are. I would use it for rhyming also, as I found myself trying to guess what the rhymes would be while reading. I also posed the question to my classmates of what they thought the character meant by telling us not to faint at the end. We discussed it and explored a couple of perceptions. Because it occurred to me when I read it, I would definitely challenge my children with the same question. We would also definitely use this story to talk about where paint, crayons and other drawing and writing materials shod be used!
September 20, 2011
This was a cute book, full of bright colors, and an independent kid who just can't control his artistic impulses. So this story should have worked really well for us, but, well, it didn't.
My niece laughed at this book, but not nearly to the degree that I thought she would, and honestly, I think this book freaked my nephew out a little bit. I'm not sure if that's because the colors were so "in your face," or if it was because he can't stand being messy, so this book was like his worst nightmare.
I'm pretty sure most children would like this book. Sadly, the children in my life just really kind of didn't.
My niece laughed at this book, but not nearly to the degree that I thought she would, and honestly, I think this book freaked my nephew out a little bit. I'm not sure if that's because the colors were so "in your face," or if it was because he can't stand being messy, so this book was like his worst nightmare.
I'm pretty sure most children would like this book. Sadly, the children in my life just really kind of didn't.
July 18, 2018
This book was a really great read-aloud! The kids loved guessing what body part the child in the story would paint next (I gave them some hints--what body part rhymes with 'red'? That's right, head!). I sang the words, which the kids really enjoyed too! They danced along as I read. :) You can also ask the kids what color each body part is, since those words are typeset in color. This was a fun and active read for everyone involved!
January 19, 2010
I'm not sure who gets more of a kick out of Karen Beaumont's books, me or my 3-year old daughter. I'll give nod to her in a close race. This wonderful book appeals to her stubborn singled mindedness of purpose regardless of what behavior is being asked of her, and her fondness for rhyme, music, anticipation, and color.
October 23, 2019
Story Time
Ages: 2.5-4
Theme: Color
This one was adorable and the kids loved it. The older kids started trying to guess which part of the body was to be painted next.
A kid painted the walls, ceiling, everything! So the mom took away the paint. Did that stop the kid? NOPE! The kid starts painting different parts of his body.
Ages: 2.5-4
Theme: Color
This one was adorable and the kids loved it. The older kids started trying to guess which part of the body was to be painted next.
A kid painted the walls, ceiling, everything! So the mom took away the paint. Did that stop the kid? NOPE! The kid starts painting different parts of his body.
January 29, 2011
"I Ain't Gonna Paint No More" is a great book for early readers. They will love to guess what part of the body the character is going to paint next. I would use this book with Pre-K students to help them learn the parts of their bodies.
December 16, 2011
This is a great book for Kindergarten children. Its about a boy who is told not to paint things, so he paints himself. I would read this during down time in my classroom. I would not incorporate it into a lesson, it's just a fun book to read.
July 16, 2014
This book is perfect for little ones' who are exploring painting after reading this book to them they will be introduced to what to paint and where not to paint. It will encourage them to paint it is quite colorful.
July 8, 2015
This book is good for color recognition, as well as prediction.I would use this book to teach children which colors mix together to get another color. I would also ask children what body part they think may be painted next in the story. This book can also be used to teach body parts.
November 10, 2015
Even though this book isn't physically a "Big book." One can use this book as a shared reading activity in a classroom. With rhythm, rhymes, and picture clues, "I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!" makes it fun for the children to make predictions as to which body part the character will paint next.
November 12, 2008
This is hilarious. My dad always sang, "It ain't gonna rain no more" to me as a kid. I can't wait for next storytime!
December 4, 2008
Wonderful rhyming story that my 12 year-old read over and over. Not quite as popular as Skippyjon Jones, but close.
March 29, 2010
I love everything about this book.
January 27, 2011
Love this children's book!! Pictures are by my favorite illustrator, David Catrow. You must sing instead of read.
January 13, 2014
LOVE this book. The illustrations are amazing!
August 19, 2016
This little story reminded me of myself and how carefree and mischievous I used to be when it came to painting. The illustrations are great as well. Very colorful and gorgeous.
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