CHILDRENS BOOKS
The Art of Teaching Art to Children
An inspiring and comprehensive guide to art education.In this accessibly written guide for classroom and art teachers as well as parents, Nancy Beal shows how to release children's marvelous gifts of expression. Beal believes that children must first of all be comfortable with their materials. She focuses on six basic media: collage, drawing, painting, clay, printmaking, and construction. She gives practical consideration to all facets of a teacher's responsibility: how each material should be introduced; what supplies are best; how a classroom may be set up to support children's explorations; and how teachers may ask open-ed questions to stimulate personal and meaningful expression. Beal also discusses how to integrate art into social studies and how to make museum visits productive and fun. Each chapter includes a section specifically for parents on helping their children create art at home.Beal has taught art to children for twenty-five years and is able to draw on a wealth of examples from her classroom. "The Art of Teaching Art to Children" is extensively illustrated with her students' art, visual proof of her gifts as an educator and art enthusiast.
Table of Contents - The City Square, Natalia Gontcharova; * Manchester Valley, Joseph Pickett Homestead, Thomas Hart Benton; * Stairway of the Treasurer's Residence: Students at Work, Frances Benjamin Johnston; * Handball, Ben Shahn The Seine at Chatou, Andre Derain; * Self-Portrait as a Golf Player, Yasuo Kuniyoshi; * Family Portrait II, Florine Stettheimer; * The Migration of the Negro, Jacob Lawrence; * House in a Courtyard, Bonnard; * Flowers by the Sea, Fairfield Porter; * East Side Interior, Edward Hopper; * Gas, Edward Hopper; * Corner Saloon, Edward Hopper; * The Storm, Edvard Munch The Apparition, Antonio Lopez-Garcia; * Butterflies, Odilon Redon The Park, Gustav Klimt; * Touraine, Andre Kertesz; * New York at Night, Berenice Abbott; * Broadway Boogie Woogie, Piet Mondrian.
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 the key elements of place to see how places are depicted by artists and how they help to convey meaning in art. 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.
Table of Contents - Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones and Colours, Paul Signac; * Water Lilies, Monet; * Moonrise, Mamoroneck, New York, Edward Steichen; * Two Acrobats with a Dog, Picasso; * Woman I, Willem de Kooning; * Simultaneous Counter-Composition, Theo van Doesburg; * Painting Number 201, Vasily Kandinsky; * Homage to the Square, Josef Albers; * Abra Variation I, Frank Stella; * Kastura, Frank Stella; * Still Life with Watermelon, Irving Penn; * Street, Dresden, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; * Murnau Landscape, Vasily Kandinsky; * Vase of Flowers, Odilon Redon; * Street Light, Giacomo Balla; * Cathedral, Hans Hofmann; * Between the Clock and the Bed, Jasper Johns; * Port-en-Bessin, Entrance to the Harbour, Georges-Pierre Seurat Jubilee, Jasper Johns.
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 colours to show how they are used by artists and how they contribute to meaning in art. By looking at colours and discussing what thoughts and feelings they suggest, 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.
The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas
This inspiring book is packed full of creative ideas. It shows exciting ways of using different art materials. Simply follow the step-by-step instructions exactly or use the ideas to create pictures of your own.
The Kids' Multicultural Art Book
This book is suitable for ages 3 to 9 years. In these pages, children can explore roots, rhythms, and traditions from all corners of the earth while crafting their own art and artefacts. From Kachina dolls of the American Southwest to worry dolls from Central America to Egyptian paper beads, these crafts reveal details about cultures across the world. Step-by-step instructions are included for fifty projects, including: Korhogo Mud Cloth and Wodaabe Mirror Pouch from Africa; Chippewa Dream Catcher and Inuit Finger Masks of the Native Americans of North America; Japanese Kokeshi Doll and Thai Hanging Owl from Asia; and Mexican Folk Art Tree of Life and Guatemalan Green Toad Bank from Mexico and Central America.
Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, The Art Book has been an outstanding success and has become a well-known landmark in the art book world. Now published in over twenty different languages and in a miniature edition, it has received rave reviews from numerous newspapers and magazines and has made many appearances on the bestseller lists. Complemented by The 20th Century Art Book and The American Art Book, its unique approach brings art alive. An A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times, it debunks art-historical classifications by throwing together brilliant examples of all periods, schools, visions and techniques. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of a definitive work, accompanied by explanatory and illuminating information on the image and its creator. Glossaries of artistic movements and technical terms are included, making this a valuable work of reference as well as a feast for the eyes. By breaking with traditional classifications, The Art Book presents a fresh and original approach to art: an unparalleled visual sourcebook and a celebration of our rich and multi-faceted culture.
How to Talk to Children About Art
The first children's art book for grown-ups. In everyday language this handy little book shows how to explain to children what to look for and how to enjoy paintings as diverse as a Renaissance religious scene and a Jackson Pollock. How to Talk to Children about Art examines thirty paintings by great artists, from the early Renaissance to the present day, in galleries around the world. The book gives examples of the kinds of questions a child might ask about the paintings, and provides straightforward answers. 'Who are the people in this painting?' 'Why has the artist used those colours?' 'How did the artist choose what to paint?' The book demystifies art appreciation and reveals that the simplest questions can be among the most pertinent. There is plenty that will stimulate children's interest in art and enlighten grown-ups too.
You dont have to be an artist, or a grown-up, to create great drawings. All you need is paper and pencil - and this kid-friendly guide.
Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters
This guide is suitable for ages 4 to 12 years. Featuring over 150 activities, this guide teaches the styles, works, and techniques of the great masters - Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and more. A brief biography of each artist is included with a fully illustrated child-tested art activity, featuring painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, architecture and more!
The Magical Garden of Claude Monet
When Julie's dog disappears into a mysterious garden, Julie follows him - and finds herself in a beautiful garden-within-a-garden where the roses grow like splashes of paint and a Japanese bridge bows over a silent pool. There she finds not only her dog, but also Claude Monet. The famous artist introduces her to his work and his garden, giving her encouragement that the young would-be artist will never forget. Set against the romantic, world-famous backdrop of Monet's garden at Giverny, the story is accompanied by reproductions of the artist's most celebrated paintings and a biographical note on Monet.
Marie and her parents are very poor, but Marie dreams of being the most famous ballerina in the world. When she joins the big ballet school in Paris, she notices a fierce man sitting at the side, sketching the dancers. The old man is the painter Edgar Degas, and his renowned clay model of Marie the ballet dancer does indeed make her the most famous dancer of all. Laurence Anholt's charmingly written story and lively illustrations are sensitively combined with reproductions of paintings and sketches by Degas, to create a fascinating introduction to the great painter and his love of the ballet.
Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail: A Story of Pablo Picasso
Sylvette was a shy girl with many secrets. She dreamed of being an artist, but no one knew of her plans. One summer, the famous Picasso came to Sylvette's town, Vallauris. Amazingly, out of all the people in the town, Picasso chose her as his model. Gradually, Sylvette came to view the famous artist as a father and told him of her secret ambitions. Sylvette and Picasso tells the true story of Sylvette David, who modelled for Picasso in 1954. She now lives in the West of England, where she works as a painter and sculptor.
Five famous Italian Renaissance paintings come alive for Katie when she steps into the picture frames. What makes the Mona Lisa smile? Katie wants to find out so she climbs into the Leonardo Da Vinci painting. But the Mona Lisa is not really feeling very happy, so Katie tries to cheer her up ...with disastrous results! Includes five masterpieces from five Italian Renaissance artists: Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci, An Angel in Red with a Lute by an associate of Leonardo, St George and the Dragon by Raphael, Primavera by Sandro Botticelli, The Lion of St Mark by Vittore Carpaccio.
Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to colour outside the lines.
Art Lessons for the Middle School: A Dbae Curriculum
Combine art production, art history, art criticism, and aesthetics into your middle school classes! Includes 56 easy-to-follow lessons Follows the Discipline-Based Art Education Curriculum Provides objectives, vocabulary lists, materials evaluation guides, and much more for each lesson.
Art for the Very Young: Ages 3-6
Young children have the ability to create, view, interpret, and appreciate art. Art for the Very Young offers over 50 art activities for children to create art and learn about basic art concepts and techniques, such as line, shape, color, space, texture, form, and value. Watch how your young learners acquire an appreciation and understanding of the featured artists and techniques they use!
Big art for little hands, this enchanting activity book allows young artists to explore the masterpieces of Miro on their own terms and with plenty of space to colour outside the lines.
Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land of Wild Things, where he is made king. Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child and a grown-up. If you disagree, then it's been too long since you've attended a wild rumpus. Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak's color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder. The wild things, with their mismatched parts and giant eyes, manage somehow to be scary-looking without ever really being scary; at times they're downright hilarious. Sendak's defiantly run-on sentences one of his trademarks lend the perfect touch of stream of consciousness to the tale, which floats between the land of dreams and a child's imagination.
A newly hatched caterpillar munches his way through all kinds of food in this story for the very young. "This very hungry caterpillar literally eats his way through the pages of the book--and right into your child's heart."--"Mother's Manual." "Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly innovative."--"The New York Times Book Review." Full color.
In the Jingle, jangle jungle, four friends encounter a very cranky bear. Moose, Lion and Zebra all think they know how to cheer him up, but it's plain, boring Sheep who has the answer. This is a hilarious picture book, with the over-riding message being: Don't underestimate the quiet ones! Sometime a little thought is all you need to solve a problem instead of rushing to immediate action.
"I was walking down the road and I saw . . . A donkey, Hee Haw! And he only had three legs! He was a wonky donkey." Children will be in fits of laughter with this perfect read-aloud tale of an endearing donkey. By the books final page, readers end up with a spunky, hanky-panky, cranky, stinky, dinky, lanky, honky-tonky, winky wonky, donkey!
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Thirty-six years after publication this much-loved classic is still as popular as ever. Ingenious die-cut holes bring this much-loved nursery rhyme to life, and Pam Adams's illustrations lend humour and vibrancy to the proceedings. Bouncy illustrations, innovative die cutting and popular rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child. Available in three formats, suitable for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and the nursery or classroom.
Madeline Says Merci: The Always be Polite Book
Based on characters created by Bemelmans, this charming new "Madeline" title was written by Ludwig's grandson and explores Madeline's take on etiquette. Illustrations.