Artful Reading

Good pairings of significant art works by noted artists with a pleasant verse make this a book that is fun to share with young children straight into early elementary.

It's lots of fun to read, but in this book you'll get to take a look at many other people who enjoyed it as well. In this book you'll get to take a look at people through the eyes of an artist. There are all kinds of people from ordinary children like you reading on a couch to St. Jerome reading in his study. Each reader in this book has been immortalized in a painting by a famous painter. The artists include August Macke, Charles Willson Peale, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Paul Cézanne, Johannes Vermeer, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Albrecht Dürer, Édouard Manet, Johannes Vermeer, Mary Cassatt, Antonello da Messina, Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Quentin Massys, Edward Hopper, Milton Avery, Jean-baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Carl Spitzweg, Pablo Picasso and Jacob Lawrence. "Read while you work. Read while you ride. Read what you want. It's for you to decide." This is a wonderful book to explore and learn about a wide variety of artists and get a glimpse at the types of work they did. Each painting is reproduced in full color and has the artist's name, the title of the painting, the date and locale of the painting. In the back of the book each painting is reproduced in thumbnail and additional information is given on the artist and his work. If you love reading or if you love art or better yet love both, you'll love this book!