Board books
Nicole's guide to good books for children
Art books for young children
In the garden with Van Gogh
This board book contains 10 paintings by Van Gogh and a short text for each painting often with a rhyme.
Dancing with Degas
This board book contains 10 paintings by Degas and a short text for each painting often with a rhyme.
Sharing with Renoir
This board book contains 10 paintings by Renoir and a short text for each painting sometimes with a rhyme.
Painting with Picasso
This board book contains 10 paintings by Picasso and a short text for each painting sometimes with a rhyme.
A picnic with Monet
This board book contains 10 paintings by Monet and a short text for each painting sometimes with a rhyme.
Windows to color
This book is about colours. For each colour we get 2 spreads, one with a painting and one with other things in that colour. There are paintings by Van Gogh, Bruegel, Chagall, Degas, O'Keeffe and Klimt.
Van Gogh's world of color
For each of the 6 colours we get a painting by Van Gogh on which we can see that colour.
Nursery rhymes
This book contains 5 nursery rhymes illustrated each with a painting. In addition for each nursery rhyme there is one word that has been translated into Spanish and French. Nice way to make your toddler understand that there are different ways of calling a thing.
My first book of letters
This book is also a Baby Einstein book. This is an alphabet book that shows some paintings by Bonnard, Magritte, etc. They didn't find a painting though to illustrate the letter "y"!
Brush Mona Lisa's hair
This is a touch and feel book. They added hair to the picture of Mona Lisa, wool to the horse's tail on Velasquez's painting, some lace on the collar of Franz Hals's painting, etc.