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Art Curriculum, Studies, Projects, Reading - Teacher, Homeschool, Fam - $5 (Richfield / Southdale area)
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Teachers, Homeschools, Families
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ART – ALL AGES
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-------USBORNE
$2 - Usborne Playtime: I Can Finger Paint. Small book.
$2 - Usborne You and Your Child: Paint Fun. Lots of play ideas for young children.
$3 - The Usborne Story of Painting, 1980, 32 pages, softcover. Filled with illustrations and facts, sorted historically.
-------DORLING KINDERSLEY (DK)
$6 - DK A Child’s Book of Play in Art, selected by Micklethwait, 1996, oversized hardcover with dust jacket. Art appreciation for young ones. (Same series as a book carried by My Father’s World in the early 2000s for preschoolers—A Child’s Book of Art).
$4 - A Child’s Book of Prayer in Art, Sister Wendy Beckett, DK.1995, 32 pages.
$3 - DK Kids’ Art Pack: A hands-on exploration of art for the whole family, by Van der Meer and Whitford, 1995. Includes artwork, lift-the-flap type activities, 3D models, PLUS a separate activity book in a back pocket. Almost all of the removable pieces are still there, as far as I can tell only missing paper 3D glasses and a striped wheel.
$5 - Eyewitness Sculpture, DK 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket
---------LINNEA and ANNO
$4 - Anno's Journey, by Mitsumaso Anno. Hardcover with dust jacket. An author known for creating stories without words within paintings of European-style villages and countryside. At the very end of the book, she lists several things to look for on the pages. (Carried by Beautiful Feet Books homeschool curriculum.)
$3 – Linnea in Monet’s Garden, by Bjork & Anderson, hardcover, no dust jacket. Cover has wear and top inch of spine is broken/ripped, but pages are fine. (France. Recommended in My Father’s World / 1850 to Modern Times.)
$4 - Linnea's Almanac, by Bjork & Anderson, hardcover with dust jacket. This is the same Linea from "Linea in Monet's Garden," but it's about plants in the city. Each month, she describes things she saw, made, wrote in her nature journal, etc.
$10 – Linnea cloth doll, used but still lovable or a cute bookshelf accent.
---ART DETECTIVE series
$5 – The Great Art Scandal, by Anna Nilsen, Kingfisher large format hardcover, 0753455870. Readers compare the originals to the fakes and solve the mysteries, art mostly from 1800s and 1900s.
$5 - Art Auction Mystery, by Anna Nilsen, Kingfisher large format hardcover with dust jacket, 075345842x. Readers compare the originals to the fakes and solve the mysteries.
---ARTISTS
$4 - Georgia O'Keeffe. Getting to know the world's greatest artists, by Mike Venezia.
$4 - Hello Rousseau! Get to know Rosseau through stories, games, and draw-it-yourself fun.
$4 - The Impressionist Art Book, from BirdCage Books, 76-pages.
—-OBSERVING ART
$3 - Stories, by Philip Yenawine, The Museum of Modern Art/Delacorte Press, 1991. Hardcover, dust jacket. Intro to modern art for the young, “encouraging careful, thoughtful looking.”
$3 - Dan’s Angel, A Detective’s Guide to the Language of Paintings, by Sturgis and Child, 2003 paperback. Paintings and cartoons are blended together and text follows a little boy and an angel from the painting who teaches about the paintings.
--------ART MUSEUMS
$2 - Seeing the Smithsonian, The Official Guidebook, 1973. Info about the history and the different museums. Some evidence of wear and a dedication inside.
$3 – Inside the Museum: A Children’s Guide to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Joy Richardson, 1993. Cover with large sarcophagus. The back cover has shelfwear that can be felt to the touch but doesn’t really affect appearance.
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GRADE 7+ OR TEACHERS
(may include at least 1-2 unclothed figures)
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$5 - Masters of Art: The World’s Great Artists, Their Lives and Works, by Baker, revised 1987, hardcover with dust jacket. Earlier published as Family Treasury of Art, this is designed “for both the very young and adults.” Covers 50 artists, from Giotto through Pollock, each with about 4 pages of biography and examples of works (some in color, all with informative captions). Heavy, 221 pages.
$2 - Living With Art, Writing Guide and Projects Manual to accompany 4th ed. text by Rita Gilbert, pub. McGraw-Hill 1995. A 42-page booklet of essays on how to look at, think about, and write about art, with an emphasis on writing such as selecting adjectives to describe a piece of art or noting similarities/differences. College 101 level.
$5 - The Art Teacher’s Book of Lists, by Helen Hume, 1998 Prentice Hall, 0135177561. 417 pages spiral-bound. A fun book, listing paintings, quotes, museum collections, things you can do with different mediums, types of brushes, symbols, photo appreciation activities, and on and on. Generally in good shape but some wear on edges, price written inside, some page corners previously folded over, at least 7 pages with multiple items circled or underlined, at least another dozen pages previously had an example stapled to the page, but nothing affects readability.