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.
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.
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!
Here in the latest addition to our contemporary art board-book series, Henri Matisse's exuberant cut-paper art leaps off the page, accompanied by simple, lyrical text sure to delight the very young.
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.
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.
Following the amazing success of One Red Dot and Blue 2, DavidCarter has done it again! He's back with 600 Black Spots, his mostclever scavenger hunt pop-up yet. Readers can spend countless hoursof fun searching for the black spots throughout the pages--but becareful! Tricks and surprises abound in this endlesslyentertaining, keep-you-on-the-spot book!
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.
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!
"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.
Katie just can't decide what she wants to be when she growsup. Perhaps a trip to the gallery to see five famous paintings byworld-renowned British artists might give her some ideas. And canshe help the shepherd boy from Constable's The Cornfield round upall those pesky sheep? For almost two decades, the Katie series hasbeen bringing art to life for young children.
Toss these go-anywhere doodle books in a purse or a backpack, leave them in the back of the car, or tote them onto the plane for an instant mood adjustment or cure for boredom. Draw a happy-looking cake, a grumpy teapot, or a laughing frog, and more No matter what their age, doodlers will appreciate Taro Gomi's wit and the opportunity to create whenever the mood strikes
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.
A collection of colourful puzzles appropriate for young children.
Katie meets a real princess and discovers the incredibleSpanish artists including Velazquez! Katie's very excited - herbirthday is coming, and she'll be having a fancy dress party! WhatKatie would like more than anything, is to dress up as a princess,but Grandma can't seem to get her costume quite right! Perhaps atrip to the art gallery will provide some inspiration ...Join Katieon her adventure inside five famous paintings as she gets to be areal princess for a day! The five masterpieces featured are:Portrait of the Infanta Margarita by Velazquez, Don Manuel Osoriode Zuniga by Goya, The Parasol by Goya, A Peasant Boy Leaning on aSill by Murillo, Philip IV of Spain in Brown and Silver byVelazquez
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!
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.
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!
Join Katie as five famous Pointillist paintings come alive forher! On a hot, sunny day, a painting of some bathers in a coolriver proves too tempting for Katie, and so she dives straight intothe picture! But Katie doesn't just cause a splash - she causes aflood! Paddling with new friends might be fun, but how will Katiestop the water pouring into the gallery? A wonderful introductionand explanation of the Pointillist art style, featuring fivemasterpieces from three famous artists: Bathers at Asnieres byGeorges Seurat Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte byGeorges Seurat Port of Honfleur by Georges Seurat Woman Hanging upthe Washing by Camille Pissarro Portrait of Felix Feneon by PaulSignac
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
Katie visits five paintings by Van Gogh,Gauguin and C?zanne! Katie tries to pick the sunflower seeds fromthe Vincent Van Gogh painting, but when the vase tips over, theflowers go everywhere. Mimi, a little girl from a painting nearby,comes to help Katie, but when Mimi's dog Zazou comes too disasterfollows! This imaginative fantasy about a mischievous character isan original and fun way to introduce children to art. A page ofnotes at the end gives background information on the artists.Includes reproductions of five famous post-Impressionistmasterpieces: Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh Breton Girls Dancingby Paul Gauguin Cafe Terrace at Night by Vincent Van Gogh StillLife, with Apples and Oranges by Paul Cezanne Tahitian Pastorals byPaul Gauguin