New board books in the best-selling Mini Masters series feature beautiful paintings from Cassatt and Picasso and rhyming text introducing budding artists to these famous masters.
These enchanting books introduce children to four perennially popular subjects: animals, letters, numbers and toys. Each book features thirty engaging games with activities involving colouring, recognition, classification, counting, searching and more, as well as one double spread of stickers. This beautifully designed collection will both educate and entertain all children of three and over. (Carries EU Toy Safety Directive 'CE' logo).
Known in France as Othe Prince of pre-school books, O Tulletpresents a fun and interactive game of finger puppets at thecircus. Full color.
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
Invites the reader to complete the illustrations by drawingeyes and a mouth on one's finger and inserting it through thedie-cut hole in each page as a "finger worm."
Introducing an addition to the acclaimed Mini Masters series. This engaging board book features beautiful works of art paired with playful, rhyming text. In Dreaming with Rousseau, the artist's vibrant paintings invite readers on a journey to dreamlike jungles packed with playful monkeys, a racing tiger, and other surprises. This unique book will enchant toddlerswith Rousseau's dramatic works.
Introducing an addition to the acclaimed Mini Masters series. This engaging board book features beautiful works of art paired with playful, rhyming text. In "On an Island with Gauguin," the artist's Tahitian paintings transport mini art lovers to a lush, colorful island where they can join in the celebration of island life. This unique book will enchant toddlers with Gauguin's dramatic works.
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.
Turn the flaps to mix and match over 50 pictures to make newpictures.
Draws on the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, presenting some fifteen famous works of art. This book is of interest to children over the age of five.
The creator of the bestselling Paper Blossoms delivers more extraordinary flowers for the table. From a butterfly garden to a hummingbird's arbour, a branch of orchids to a vase of tulips, these four new breath taking pop-up centrepieces brighten any table and fill any room with colour and lasting beauty.
Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist, Auguste Renoir, rhyming text tells a story from the artwork.
"The Game of Light" is an inventive game of storytelling withshadows. Part of a bright and lively series of board books thatwork like a game. Full color.
These bright, compact hardcovers introduce young readers andtheir parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors,People, Places and Stories--via an assortment of the greatmasterpieces of twentieth century art. Author Philip Yenawine, thelongtime Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art, iscurrently co-director of Visual Understanding in Education, adevelopmentally based education research organization. He has alsobeen affiliated with education programs at the Metropolitan Museumof Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In ShapesYenawine asks questions like, "Can you find buildings? And roofs?"while looking at a Picasso study. Other Shapes artists includeSeurat, Gauguin, Malevich, Mondrian, Arp, Klee, Smith and Dali.Colors looks at Monet, de Kooning, Kandinsky, Albers, Stella andJohns, among others. Places includes 21 artworks by artists such asHopper, Munch, Klimt, and Bonnard, while People highlights works byBalthus, Degas, Freud, Cezanne, Neel and Rivera. Lines featur
A way of introducing young children to fine art. The sleepy trees, golden haystacks and joicy fruits of Van Gough will appeal to children as well as their parents. Playful rhyming texts accompany the paintings. For ages 2 to 5.
Museum ABC is a unique and colorful picturebook that introduces children to more than a hundred works of art,using the alphabet. Adults and children alike will love the visualand cultural richness of this alphabetical tour through theMetropolitan Museum's collection.
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
Welcome to the world of Blop! A Blop is a simple shape,somewhere between a flower and a butterfly, a sponge and a drawingof a little man -- above all Blop is whatever you want it to be.Using very few woods and handwritten text "I AM BLOP!" explore manyconcepts encountered for the first time by young children,including up and down, single and plural, individual and family,city and countryside etc. This single shape represents anything achild's mind can imagine. With 110 illustrations in varying colorsand patterns, little or sometimes no words at all, each page has aunique Blop that brigs a whole new dimension to children's reading."I AM BLOP!" is an invitation to discover and explore everyday lifeand hundreds of ideas through one simple shape.