by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober
This charming little baby book features paintings by the famous artist Mary Cassatt. All the pictures feature children, and are accompanied by simple, rhyming text describing the picture. My favorite is the last page, on a pink background it has a detail of Cassatt's work
Breakfast in Bed and says
Fresh and clean, on cool white sheets, it's cuddle time before we sleep. (The fact that the painting is of morning time and the words make it sound like bedtime doesn't bother me; I didn't know that until I looked up the title of the picture!) Such a nice little book,
Quiet Time with Cassatt is a wonderful way to introduce some great artwork to your little one.
Other titles in this "Mini Masters" series include
Painting with Picasso, A Picnic with Monet, Sharing with Renoir, Dreaming with Rousseau, Sunday with Seurat, In the Garden with Van Gogh, Dancing with Degas.... I really wish I could search for more at my library but for some reason they don't catalog the board books. I can't search for them, and even though I check them out, they don't show up on my list. I find that very odd. Maybe they just loose too many to bother keeping track of them? I'll just have to rummage through the board-books shelves and see if I can find more.
rating: 4/5 ........ 22 pages, 2006
That sounds divine to me.
ReplyDeleteHow cool! What a good idea! My mother always says if she could do it all over she'd do more about making us love Art when we were little, and this series looks like it would be the perfect thing. I'll have to file it away in my brain against the day I have children.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea for a board book. Looks like there's a box set of four of these I may have to consider for my niece for Christmas.
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