Word books
Nicole's guide to good books for children
Art books for young children
Bonjour Degas
This is a word book in English and French published by the National Gallery of Australia. It has words for 25 different colours, so we have words like turquoise, vermilion and not just the most common colours. The background of the page is yellow for the page with the word "yellow", etc. For each colour there is a painting. The French words have not been proofread very carefully, it seems, as there is a typing mistake in one of the colours.
Alphabet book
This is an alphabet book published by the National Gallery of Australia. For each letter of the alphabet there is one word with its translation into French. The illustrations are all paintings by Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Signac and other artists.
ABC alphabet
This is an alphabet book published by the National Gallery of Australia. For each letter of the alphabet there is a painting. The illustrations are paintings by Gauguin, Van Gogh, Signac, Seurat and other artists.
My first ABC
This is an alphabet board book from the Metropolitan Museum of Art showing a painting for each letter of the alphabet.
1 2 3 The art of counting
This is a counting book published by the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. It teaches the numbers 1 to 10 with an illustration for each number.
Math-terpieces
This is a maths book by Greg Tang in which children have to work out 5 ways of making 9, for example. All the tasks are based on paintings by Degas, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Picasso, Dali, etc. Furthermore the instructions for the tasks are little poems with rhymes. It is quite unique to combine maths with art and poetry.
Let's go!
This book has been published by the National Gallery of Australia. It contains 12 paintings by Sisley, Van Gogh, Monet, Signac, Gauguin and others. For each painting there is a bit of text, then a sentence with its translation into French and then there are two questions to help think about the paintings.
I spy an alphabet in art
This is an alphabet book. There are paintings by Magritte, Picasso, Chardin, Vermeer, Goya and others.
I spy animals in art
On each picture there is an animal to spy. The very short text is in a very big font. There are paintings by Renoir, Chagall, Holbein and others.
I spy transport in art
On each picture there is a means of transport to spy. The very short text is in a very big font. There are paintings by Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Dali and others.
I spy numbers in art
On each picture there is something to count. There are paintings by Gauguin, Matisse, Rubens, Picasso and others.
A child's book of art
This is a very big book, it has 64 pages and contains over 100 paintings that illustrate a child's first words.
A child's book of play in art
This is a very big book, it has 46 pages and contains over 50 paintings. It encourages the children to talk about what they see.