Gladys S. Blizzard

Come Look with Me: World of Play is no dry discourse on art history or painting technique. Instead it pairs quality art reproductions with thought-provoking questions, encouraging the child to enter the painting or sculpture and explore it through the artist's eyes, through the eyes of the people depicted, and through the child's own imagination.

Author, Gladys S. Blizzard has chosen twelve fascinating works of art which, although diverse, all fall into the most child-friendly of themes, show more people at play. Works range from an ancient Minano fresco and a classic Winslow Homer to a wacky modern basketball game sculpted by Red Grooms in painted wood. show less

Part of the World of Art Come Look with Me series of explorative fine art books for young children, Exploring Landscape Art With Children is designed for children four to ten years. The book exposes children to the works of 12 artists including Vincent van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, M. C. Escher, and Georgia O’Keeffe. For each of the book’s 12 works of art children are encouraged to engage the landscape depicted by imagining themselves, for example, in the winter snow of Breugel’s Hunters show more in the Snow (1565) or the jungle stillness of Rousseau’s The Repast of the Lion (1907). Children also become acquainted with the artist’s technique (ex., brush stroke or use of perspective) and are asked to consider how the landscape would appear different if such techniques were altered or absent. Unlike Macaulay’s The Way Things Work (1988), writer and educator Blizzard reaches young minds without overpowering them with technical jargon. show less

Excellent book to help you educate your children on art. While the children look at the photographs the adult can read the background information on the piece. There are also thoughtful questions to engage the child in a discussion about what they are seeing. Most of the questions are open-ended and will spark lively discussions.

This is actually really good as the author guides you through your own understanding of art. Art can be many different things as you go through the book. Genre, picture book as this has art of animals in it. Media, water colors and airbrushing and a bit of outlining. it kind of has a lot of different styles in it.