一个小男孩从这本迷人的讲述在博物馆的一天的图画书中得知艺术在我们身边随处可见。 我们都记得小时候在拥挤的美术馆里的感觉。那个时候想看到艺术作品很难，更不用说欣赏艺术了。于是你很累，可是还有那么多其他东西要看！这就是这本制作精巧简单但有深度的艺术书的教训。艺术无处不在 从另一个参观者精心制作的纹身到太阳在地板上形成光的图案。当其他参观者忙于在博物馆的画廊中寻找自己的出路，或为寻找欣赏一幅杰作的空间而战时，我们的主人公在长椅上倒过来看画廊，与他的影子嬉戏，并与看护人交朋友。乔安妮 刘（Joanne Liu）异想天开的插图提醒我们，有时*好的艺术就是你自己制作的艺术。A young boy learns that art is all around us in this captivating picture book about a day at the museum. We all remember what it was like to be a child in a crowded art museum. It was hard to see, l

"In a small village in Spain""lives a boy named AntoniGaudi."" "His home is in Catalonia, a place of jagged mountainpeaks and silvery olive trees, splashed by the sparkling sea. Thewild beauty of this landscape makes a deep impression. He thinks ofit as the Great Book of Nature, and he will read from it all of hislife.Gaudi becomes an architect, learning the rules of form andstructure that buildings are supposed to follow. But the shapes andcolors of the natural world still inspire him, and he works theminto his buildings. Leaves climb up walls. Pillars are giant animalfeet. A long bench snakes around a playground. Antoni Gaudi turnednature into art, and in the process he revolutionized the world ofarchitecture.

Nina Laden''s illustrations complement this f unny story that not only introduces children to two of the w orld''s most extraordinary modern artists, but teaches a valu able lesson - how to creatively resolve a conflict. '

Ed Emberley is the author of the popular Drawing Book series. Helives in Ipswich, MA.

This is no ordinary coloring book! Following the enormously successful Scribbles and Doodles , Taro Gomi invites kids of all ages to not only color, but paint, draw, and imagine. Playful drawings and fun-to-follow instructionsmake this book easy to startbut hard to put down. Artists young and old will be inspired to break out their brushes and stretch their imaginations!

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.

Gomi invites children to punch out more than 60 fantastic playthings, including ring-toss games, finger puppets, boxes, picture frames, a zoo's worth of animals, and more. Full color. Consumable.

50 Tear-Off Placemats for Mealtime Fun Break out your pens and markers, and help the whale spout and the chameleon change colour draw a dog for the doghouse, or horses for the grassy field with this really giant colouring and doodling pad of 52 big place mats Picky eaters and fidgety diners of all ages will love Taro Gomi's signature humour and invitation to imagine and create at mealtime.

50 Tear-Off Placemats for Mealtime Fun Break out your pens and markers, draw the noodles in the soup or the toppings on the pizza, pack a picnic, or serve a fancy meal and more with this really giant colouring and doodling pad of 52 big place mats Picky eaters and fidgety diners of all ages will love Taro Gomi's signature humour and invitation to imagine and create at mealtime.

Taro Gomi is back with a new addition to the wildly popular Scribbles, Doodles, and Squiggles series. Playful drawings of spring, summer, fall, and winter scenes plus fun-to-follow instructions will have kids of all ages doodling, drawing, and stretching their imaginations all year long!

From circles and squares to arches and stars, Museum Shapesintroduces children to basic and complex shapes through TheMetropolitan Museum+s extensive and varied collections of art. Eachshape has two spreads devoted to it; the first spread asks whatshape a certain object is in a chosen piece of art. Once the childhas the answer, he or she can turn the page to verify the answer.Information about each piece of art and its creator appears in theback of the book. While children discover different shapes, adultswill appreciate the aesthetic value and cultural richness of thisglorious book, which features the works of a diverse range ofartists including Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, and DanteGabriel Rossetti.

Taro Gomi is back with a new addition to the wildly popular Scribbles, Doodles, and Squiggles series. Playful drawings plus fun-to-follow instructions will have kids of all ages doodling, drawing, and stretching their imaginations in too many ways to count

Using just 8 shapes and objects, Ed Emberley shows would-beartists how to draw a variety of animals, people, insects, andmore, and everything is PURPLE! This hefty 96-page book is packedwith fun things that kids-and not a few adults-really want to draw.Easy and fun, the book provides hours of art-full fun.

Who hasn’t heard of Vincent Van Gogh? The Dutch genius of late Impressionism rings a bell even with children. His beautiful colours and twisted portraits touch everybody, both young and old. Therefore, Ludion presents The Little Van Gogh Museum. Like its predecessor in the series, its concept is to make little children learn their first words, every spread showing a work by Van Gogh (mainly from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam) with juxtaposed, chronologically ordered keywords. Meanwhile, somewhat older kids get a good introduction to his oeuvre, and of course, also parents can enjoy it. If you want to hear your child say 'Sunflower', then buy this book!

With Draw and Color: Horses and Ponies, aspiring artists canlearn to create masterpieces featuring these stunning creatures,from the Andalusian to the Appaloosa to the Rocky Mountain Pony.Kids use circles to start the horses’ heads, chest, and hips; ovalsfor their muzzles and profiles; and triangles for their uprightears. Then they ll use the double-sided colored pencils and shapederaser to add the final touches to equine friends. And childrenwill delight in the quizzes and fun facts for each horse and ponythat make learning simple and enjoyable.Once children get startedwith Draw and Color: Horses and Ponies, wild horses won’t be ableto keep them away!

A collection of colourful puzzles appropriate for young children.

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

Draw and Color: Cats and Dogs is just the book for anyonewho’s always wanted to draw his or her furry friends. If kids candraw a circle, a square, and a triangle, then they can draw aPersian Himalayan cat, a Pomeranian, a Maine coon, or a pug puppy.Draw and Color: Cats and Dogs takes kids step by step through theprocess of creating an image of each animal — from the first circleof of a Birman kitten’s head to the pattern in the golden fur of aretriever — and double-sided colored pencils allow children totruly bring each critter to life.Quizzes and fun facts abouteveryone from the Chihuahua to the Ragdoll complete this easy andfun package. Soon they ll be creating your own masterpieces — onepaw at a time!

50 Tear-Off Placemats for Mealtime Fun Break out your pens and markers, and help characters get dressed up, tell jokes, choose a pet, go on vacation, and more with this really giant colouring and doodling pad of 52 big place mats Picky eaters and fidgety diners of all ages will love Taro Gomi's signature humour and invitation to imagine and create at mealtime.

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

This fully illustrated volume on the life and work of EricCarle contains autobiographical writings of his life and childhoodin wartime Germany, giving a glimpse of the people, circumstancesand events that shaped his life and encouraged his bold, freeformstyle. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable editionof this title.