Museum books

Nicole's guide to good books for children

Art books for young children

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Katie's picture show

Katie Katie

This book is about Katie who visits an art gallery in London. Five famous paintings become alive and Katie is able to step inside them! The five paintings are by John Constable, Ingres, Renoir, Henri Rousseau and Kasimir Malevich.

Katie and the Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa Mona Lisa

This book is about Katie who visits the Italian renaissance section in an art gallery. Five famous paintings become alive and Katie is able to step inside them trying to cheer up the Mona Lisa! In addition to the Mona Lisa we see for example a painting by Botticelli and one by Raphael.

Katie meets the Impressionists

Katie meets the impressionists Katie meets the impressionists

This book is about Katie who visits an art gallery. Five famous paintings become alive and Katie is able to step inside them trying to find flowers for her grandmother. This book features paintings by Monet, Renoir and Degas.

Katie and the Spanish Princess

Katie and the Spanish princess Katie and the Spanish princess

This book is about Katie who visits an art gallery. Five famous paintings become alive and Katie is able to step inside them and will become a princess for a day. This book features paintings by Velazquez, Goya and Murillo.

My little Orsay

Orsay Orsay

This book is about the museum Orsay in Paris, which used to be a railway station. The book shows us paintings by Gauguin, Van Gogh, Degas, Manet, Renoir and others. It features a few sculptures too.

My little Louvre

Louvre Louvre

This book is about the museum Louvre in Paris, France. The book shows us sculptures and paintings, among others by Boucher, Georges de La Tour and Chardin. It contains too the famous Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.

Visiting an exhibition

exhibition visit

This book is about a family who visits a museum. Lots of nice little speech bubbles and quite a few famous paintings. We even see Degas's sculpture of a little dancer.

Florence Playing with art

Florence Florence

This book shows paintings and sculptures that are in Florence, Italy. We see David, the famous sculpture by Michelangelo, a painting by Botticelli, Caravaggio and more.

Can you find it?

find find

This is a "I spy" book from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city. It shows 19 works of art with a small list of things to spot on the pictures. Nice book to encourage children to look at paintings more carefully.

Can you find it outside?

Can you find it outside Can you find it outside

This is a "I spy" book from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city. It shows 13 works of art with a few things to spot on the pictures. Nice book to encourage children to look at paintings more carefully.

Behind the frame

frame renaissance

This book is subtitled A visit to the workshop of a Renaissance painter. It has been published by the Australian National Gallery. Jack was able to enter a painting from 1515 and finds himself in the workshop of a painter where he gets explanations, for example, about how paints were made. He learns that things we use now didn't exist at that time.

Where are you, Ernest and Celestine?

Ernest and Celestine Ernest and Celestine

This is a picture book. The story takes place in a museum, but we don't get any information about the paintings. It is just a little story in which a mouse gets lost and is frightened.