Tumble down the rabbit hole and find yourself in an inky black-and-white wonderland. This interactive activity book takes you on a ramble through a secret garden created in beautifully detailed pen-and-ink illustrations - all waiting to be brought to life through colouring, but each also sheltering all kinds of tiny creatures just waiting to be found. And there are also bits of the garden that still need to be completed by you. Appealing to all ages, the intricately-realized world of the Secret Garden is both beautiful and inspirational.

Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment. The authors' harmoniously interwoven perspectives provide a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of life. Through uplifting stories, parables, and personal anecdotes, the Zanders invite us to become passionate communicators, leaders, and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world

With no text, this board book takes youngsters on a visualwalk through the countryside. Readers can tell the story aloud asthey OwalkO through the book. Full color.

Relax – the experts at the British Museum have sifted out allthe best bits of ancient history into one essential, easy-to-readbook. You’ll never again be short of an interesting historical factto stun your friends and impress your teachers. Did you know thatthe ancient Aztecs invented football (but they sacrificed thelosing team to the gods)? How did they get the squishy bits out ofthe insides of mummies in ancient Egypt? Did you know that ancientGreek men did athletics in the nude (and didn’t let girls watch?)What were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? Who was EricBloodaxe? How many Egyptian pharaohs were there? How many pyramids?Who liked to eat boiled ostrich? What is a hippocamp? Did you knowthat the Romans’ favourite sauce wasn’t tomato ketchup, but rancidfish? Can you name the Twelve Olympian gods of ancient Greece? Canyou list ten top facts about cats in ancient Egypt?

These bright, compact hardcovers introduce young readers andtheir parents to six visual building blocks-- Lines, Shapes,Colors, People, Places and Stories --via an assortment ofthe great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Author PhilipYenawine, the longtime Director of Education at The Museum ofModern Art, is currently co-director of Visual Understanding inEducation, a developmentally based education research organization.He has also been affiliated with education programs at theMetropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art,Chicago. In Shapes Yenawine asks questions like, "Can youfind buildings? And roofs?" while looking at a Picasso study. Other Shapes artists include Seurat, Gauguin, Malevich, Mondrian,Arp, Klee, Smith and Dali. Colors looks at Monet, deKooning, Kandinsky, Albers, Stella and Johns, among others. Places includes 21 artworks by artists such as Hopper,Munch, Klimt, and Bonnard, while People highlights works byBalthus, Degas, Freud, Cezanne, Neel and Rivera.

An introduction for young readers to some of thegreatest paintings of all time. Here are twenty world-famous artworks featured in easy-to-followchronological order, including: Jan Van Eyck’s The ArnolfiniPortrait, Paolo Uccello’s The Battle of San Romano, SandroBotticelli’s Primavera, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, PieterBruegel the Elder’s Children’s Games, Jan Vermeer’s The Artist’sStudio, John Constable’s The Hay Wain, Winslow Homer’s Breezing Up(A Fair Wind), Auguste Renoir’s La Loge, Berthe Morisot’s Summer’sDay, Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Paul Cézanne’sMont Sainte-Victoire, and Paul Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From?What Are We? Where Are We Going? All of the works are remarkable paintings with remarkablehistories that have been chosen specifically to appeal to a youngaudience. The illustrations include a portrait or self-portrait ofeach artist, as well as a reproduction of their masterpiece, alongwith carefully selected details and other paintings

This delightful new book for children takes the reader on a colourful trip through the history of painting with Picasso as guide. It reproduces some of Picasso’s most famous works alongside the paintings that inspired them, fromVelázquez’s Meninas to Manet’s notorious Déjeuner sur l’Herbe, exploring why Picasso loved them so much and how he re-created them in his own inimitable style. The book ends with an activity section in which children can use their own pencils and brushes to distort, reshape and paint what they feel – just like Picasso!

This is one of a series of books on modern art created to help very young people learn the basic vocabulary used by artists, a sort of ABC of art. This book isolates lines to show how they are used by artists and how they contribute to meaning in art. By looking at lines and discussing what thoughts and feelings they convey, adults encourage children to develop creative thinking skills. Notes at the back of each book provide brief background information that adults will find useful when talking with children about the images reproduced in these books.