Museum Shapes (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3) - Hardcover

Metropolitan Museum Of Art, The (NY)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316056987 ISBN 13: 9780316056984

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2005

Synopsis

Introducing children to basic and complex shapes through the Metropolitan Museum's extensive and varied collections, this book features the work of a diverse range of artists. Each shape has two spreads. Full color.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a world-renowned art collection.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 3–Another beautiful concept book that highlights works from the museum's collection. With a structure similar to that in Museum 123 (Little, Brown, 2004), a question (e.g., What shape is the wheel?) faces a full-page art reproduction. On the next spread, details from four more works of art that include the shape face a single example of it on a white background, centered and clearly labeled. The concept is simple; what makes this book so wonderful is the art, which is varied in content, style, medium, culture, and period, and is beautifully reproduced. Young children may be challenged to name the arch or the crescent, for example, and may also have some difficulty finding familiar forms in a few paintings, like the rectangles in Childe Hassam's waving flags in Avenue of the Allies, Great Britain, 1918. Parents will relish the opportunity to look at these wonderful works of art and to discuss not only the shapes, but also the content of the pictures with their children. A title to be shared again and again.–Susan Oliver, Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library System, FL
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0316056987
• ISBN 13: 9780316056984
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48