Come
Look with Me
Gladys
Blizzard
Ms Blizzard guides youngsters in an imaginative way of looking
at art with carefully selected works and thought-provoking text.
Each full-color reproduction (there are a dozen in each book)
is accompanied by a brief biography of the artist and open-ended
questions designed to make the most of a child's natural curiosity
(the questions are fun for adults also!)
Reading
level: Gr 1 & up
32
pages. 10" x 10" hardcover.
Full
color throughout.
NOW
$13.95 each.
| Animals in Art. |
| Exploring Landscape Art with Children. |
| World of Play. |
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Native
American Rock Art
Reading
level: Gr 4-6
A journey into the world of the people whose petroglyphs and pictographs still mark canyon walls, rock outcroppings and caves across North America. Photographs of ancient artwork and text explaining what we think they mean give young readers an introduction to our predecessors on the continent.
48
pages. 10" x 8.5" hardcover.
Full
color photographs and illustrations. Glossary.
Was $16.95. NOW $12.50.
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The Painter's Eye: Learning to Look at Contemporary American Art
Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
Delacorte Press. 1991.
Out-of-print
hard cover.
7¾" - 9¾". 96 pages including index and glossary.
Color reproductions of art.
Provides the necessary tools for young readers to begin a lifetime appreciation of paintings and the work that painters do - as well as the magic they create. Photographs of many artists at work, along with short interviews or quotes about their childhoods and their work, help to bring the paintings to life. Includes works by Jennifer Bartlett, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem do Kooning, and many other artists.
Condition: like new. Dust jacket missing
Offered at $13.50
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Places
Philip Yenawine
for ages 4 - 8 yrs.
Delacorte Press/Museum of Modern Art
Hard cover. 8.5 " x 8.5". 24 pages
Color reproductions of art. Book introduces young readers and their parents to places in an assortment of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Author Philip Yenawine, a director of Visual Understanding in Education, asks questions like, "Can you find flowers, clouds, rocks, and water?" while looking at a painting from 1910. Artists include Hopper, Munch, Klimt, and Bonnard. Book comes with an illustrated summary of artworks to help adults look at art with children.
Offered at $10.50
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