In episode 178 of the Your Kid’s Next Read podcast:
Books About Art
Inspired by recent gallery visits, Allison and Megan explore books about art for kids, introducing everything from colour and shape awareness to famous artists to looking at ‘the point of it all’.
Books we mention
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Bookmail and TBR pile
‘Bamboozled’ by David Legge (30th anniversary edition)
‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess’ by Rick Riordan
‘Nanny Piggins and the Origin Story’ by R.A. Spratt
‘Funny Kid Spookytime’ by Matt Stanton
‘Summer of Shipwrecks’ by Shivaun Plozza
Books About Art For Kids
The Art Book for Children By: Ferren Gipson, Amanda Renshaw, Gilda Williams
Board books
‘Colours A Colourful Book of Art’ By The Met
‘The Met Black and White: A High Contrast Book of Art Board book’
‘The Met ABC: An Alphabet Book of Art’
‘Fishing for Shapes’ by Little Gestalten (Editor), Marcos Farina (Author, Illustrator)
‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Let’s Play All Day’ by Eric Carle
‘Busy Little Fingers: Art’ By Eva Wong Nava and Eleanora Marton
‘The Art in Country A Treasury for Children’ by Bronwyn Bancroft
Primary school
‘What’s the Point of Art?’ By DK
‘How to Be a Super Awesome Artist: 20 art projects inspired by the masters’ by Henry Carroll, Rose Blake
‘Be a Creative Changemaker’ by Paula Liz and Bambi Ramsay
A Whole World of Art: A time-travelling trip through a whole world of art by Sarah Phillips and Dion Mehaga Bangun Djayasaputra
‘Albert Namatjira’ by Vincent Namatjira
‘In an Artist’s Garden:A Seek-and-Find Book’ by Claire Orrell
‘To See Clearly: A Portrait of David Hockney’ by Evan Turk
‘Matisse’s Garden’ by Samantha Friedman
‘Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity’ by Sarah Suzuki
‘What Degas Saw’ by Samantha Friedman
‘I Could Have Done That: Create Your Own Modern Masterpiece’ by Guy Field
Adult Memoir
‘All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art’ by Orlando Whitfield
Our books
The Mapmaker Chronicles series by A. L. Tait
The Ateban Cipher (duology) by A. L. Tait
The Maven & Reeve Mysteries by A. L. Tait
The First Summer of Callie McGee by A. L. Tait
The Beehive by Megan Daley
Teacher, Teacher (anthology), edited by Megan Daley
Raising Readers by Megan Daley
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