Turn the flaps to mix and match over 50 pictures to make newpictures.
With a narrative that will entertain art lovers of all ages, this new board book is a fun way to introduce young children to fine art. The little ones will love spending A Magical Day with Matisse in a world full of music, color, bobbing sailboats, and tickled toes. Playful rhyming texts accompany the artists timeless paintings in this little masterpiece.
Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist, Auguste Renoir, rhyming text tells a story from the artwork.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
This edition of The Art Book presents a new way of looking atart with children. It's an A - Z guide to thirty of the mostengaging artists and one of their most famous works of art.Designed for both adult and child to enjoy together, the bookencourages children to learn to look, and to imagine why artistschoose to create art in the way that they do. Accessible andeducational The Art Book, Children's Edition is fun and easy touse. A perfect introduction to art for children everywhere. FromLeonardo's iconic Mona Lisa to Andy Warhol's equally iconic Marilynand from Jeff Koons' exuberant, flower-encrusted Puppy to GrantWood's severe American Gothic, 30 works appearing in the originalArt Book have been selected for The Art Book Children's Edition fortheir significance in art history as well as their appeal tochildren. The giants of art history such as Van Gogh, Matisse,Rembrandt, Turner and Velazquez are all here, but the Children'sEdition also offers its readers an introduction to challenging,recent artists
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.
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.
(Praise for the Art Book for Children Volume One) 'A Perfectintroduction to art for parents and children to enjoy together' TheGuardian 'Parents will find this a wonderful book to share withtheir child' Junior 'Stylish and exciting without being silly' TheSunday Times
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
Follow Steve Bloom as he travels across continents taking photographs. Find out how big-cat predators survive in tough conditions; how they live, grow up, hunt and have babies. Bloom’s in-the-field account makes a compelling narrative in the same way that the voiceover on a natural-history television programme is both informative and pacy. The photographs are full of drama. They are sharp and clear, and bring the subject to life for children. At the back of the book there is a brief section on how to take photographs of animals in the wild. Here, children will also find helpful tips about taking photographs of animals at home.
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.
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."
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 explores how people are depicted by artists and how they help to convey meaning in art. By looking at the people portrayed in this book and discussing their various characteristics, 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.
Known in France as Othe Prince of pre-school books, O Tulletpresents a fun and interactive game of finger puppets at thecircus. Full color.
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.