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What Is a Sculpture?
  • Published: 28 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781774883013
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $45.00

What Is a Sculpture?

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Learn how art and sculpture are all around us in this captivating, gallery-like picture book for kids and curious humans ages 8 and up. For fans of Elizabeth Haidle's Drawing Is . . . and the books of Hervé Tullet.

Is a statue a sculpture? Is a building a sculpture? How about my ice cream cone? What is a sculpture? And . . . how can YOU make one?

Join acclaimed visual artists Diane Borsato and Laura Carlin on a creative adventure through a gallery of wonderful, wobbly sculptures inspired by famous artworks from around the world. Sculptures like a bronze spider as a big as a house, a tree fluttering with wishes, an arch made of river stones, a portrait made entirely of chocolate and so many more.

This irresistible book will inspire kids to look closer — and build things, bake things, stack things, collect things, wrap things and even ride things — in ways you'd never expect.

Includes back matter with titles, credits, descriptions and sources.
  • Published: 28 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781774883013
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $45.00
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Praise for What Is a Sculpture?

PRAISE FOR DIANE BORSATO:
"[Borsato] might alternately be described as a performance artist, an interventionist, or a relational aesthetician. None of these, though, adequately describe the subtlety, intimacy, and often wry absurdity of her work." —"The Knowing of Diane Borsato," Philip Monk, former curator and director of the Art Gallery of York University

PRAISE FOR Mushrooming WRITTEN BY DIANE BORSATO:
"A merry, idiosyncratic guide." ―Wall Street Journal

"This curious compendium of all things fungi will be welcomed by amateur mycologists, avant-garde artists, intrepid woods trampers, cautious cooks, and even armchair readers." ―Booklist