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This beautiful new entry in the series not only introduces children to Impressionism—perhaps the most popular artistic movement of all time--but also offers them fun with numbers. Kids can count fruit in Cézanne’s Still Life with Apples, pat six fancy hats in Degas’’ The Millinery Shop, feel the bumpy bark in Edouard Vuillard’s Two Schoolchildren, and touch blue ribbon bows in Renoir’s The Swing.
Synopsis
Step into the garden—
our day has begun.
Find Monet’s lily
and count to one . . .
This beautiful new entry in the series not only introduces children to Impressionism—perhaps the most popular artistic movement of all time--but also offers them fun with numbers. Kids can count fruit in Cézanne’s Still Life with Apples, pat six fancy hats in Degas’’ The Millinery Shop, feel the bumpy bark in Edouard Vuillard’s Two Schoolchildren, and touch blue ribbon bows in Renoir’s The Swing.
About the Author, Julie Appel
Amy Guglielmo is an artist, writer, and teacher. She currently runs her own art school in a Soho loft in New York City, where she lives with her husband. Amy also teaches cooking, runs art and theater camps, and throws fabulous art parties for kids.
Julie Appel is a writer and a lawyer. Julie resides in New York City with her husband and two children, where she is an avid collector of her children’s art.
Readers are encouraged to count through nine late-19th-century masterworks in this rhyming, touch-and-feel bagatelle. Unfortunately, the gimmick, while appealing, is hopelessly misapplied to the audience. Counting toddler fingers will eagerly grab Monet's lily (White Waterlilies), touch the shiny "water" (Summertime, by Cassatt), poke the bumpy "oranges" (Women Walking in an Exotic Forest, by Rousseau) and so on. They and their parents will have a devil of a time trying to count the endlessly receding trees in Vuillard's Two School Children and to find the sixth hat in Degas's The Millinery Shop. The companion Find King Henry's Treasure (ISBN: 978-1-4027-6324-3) is an even worse conceptual mismatch. Introduce the very youngest children to art with the developmentally spot-on Art for Baby (2009) and then move them along to Lucy Micklethwait's many fine works when they get a little older. (Board book. 2-4)
