I Spy: An Alphabet in Art
10 best books like I Spy: An Alphabet in Art (Lucy Micklethwait): The Icky Bug Alphabet Book, Vincent's Colors, Action Jackson, Living Color, The Ultimate Alphabet, Museum ABC, One World, One Day, Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals, Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet, The Graphic Alphabet
| Author | Jerry Pallotta |
| ISBN | 0881064564 |
For many children, "icky" bugs are endlessly fascinating. This book helps children discover why farmers like the praying mantis, how the water spider breathes underwater, and other intriguing facts about the world of bugs and insects.
Jerry Pallotta's lighthearted text and Ralph Masiello's...
| Author | Vincent van Gogh |
| ISBN | 0811850994 |
Vincent van Gogh is one of the world's most famous artists. Throughout his life, he wrote to his younger brother, Theo, about his colorful, dynamic paintings. This book pairs the artist's paintings with his own words. Van Gogh's descriptions, arranged as a simple rhyme, introduce young readers to...
| Author | Jan Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0312367511 |
One late spring morning the American artist Jackson Pollock began work on the canvas that would ultimately come to be known as Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist).
Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan use this moment as the departure point for a unique picture book about a great...
| Author | Steve Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0618708979 |
Red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink—animals can be startlingly colorful. Why are they found in so many shades, tints, and hues? From the scarlet ibis to the blue-tongued skink, award-winning author/illustrator Steve Jenkins depicts a whole world of colorful animals in his signature...
| Author | Mike Wilks |
| ISBN | 0764972138 |
Artist Mike Wilks set out to depict as many words as possible in twenty-six images corresponding to the alphabet. His four-year painting odyssey resulted in a suite of magnificent compilations, all minutely detailed, masterfully rendered, and slightly surreal. Each image contains dozens, if not...
| Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| ISBN | 0316071706 |
Museum ABC introduces more than one hundred works art--using the alphabet!
This unique alphabet book features four works of art from different cultures and periods for each letter of the alphabet. Simple words matched with intriguing illustrations provide an opportunity for endless exploration....
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 1426304617 |
One World, One Day uses exquisite, moving photographs and Barbara Kerley’s poetic text to convey a simple yet profound concept: we are one global family. This is a sophisticated concept book, presented as an elegant picture book with contributions from top international photographers.
This...
| Author | Fritz Eichenberg |
| ISBN | 0808585169 |
A beginning rhyming alphabet book for young kids, but older kids can enjoy the zaniness of these rhymes. The artwork is detailed and interesting from the 50s. I think it’s very lovely. The rhyme is like the title on each page, short and to the point. There is a ‘Nag with a Bag’ and a ‘Pig with a Wig’,...
| Author | David McLimans |
| ISBN | 0802795633 |
Feast your eyes on these amazing creatures before they disappear. This stampede of wild animals, from Chinese Alligator to Grevy's Zebra, are so rare, they're all endangered. David McLiman's bold and playful illustrations transform each letter into a work of art, graphically rendered with animal...
| Author | David Pelletier |
| ISBN | 0531360016 |
A beginning alphabet book with each letter somehow using a graphic representation of a word that starts with that letter. Like ’S’ had steps carved into the letter, or ’T’ was tripping over a dot. Some letters you can see more and some letters are more abstract like C in a circle.
The Caldecott...
| Author | Lynne Cheney |
| ISBN | 0689858191 |
Lynne Cheney and Robin Preiss Glasser collaborated on America: A Patriotic Primer, which captured the imagination of American children and became a national best-seller. Now they turn their hands to A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women and bring the great women of American history...
| Author | Steve Martin |
| ISBN | 0385516622 |
The acclaimed entertainer and bestselling author Steve Martin and the wildly clever New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast team up in a weird, wonderful excursion through the alphabet.
The ABCs have never had it so good. Created by two of today’s wittiest, most imaginative minds, The Alphabet...
| Author | Alison Murray |
| ISBN | 1423136942 |
When an apple pie arrives piping hot on the kitchen table, a little pup does everything from A to Z to get his paws on it. He Ogles it. He Pines for it. But will his ABC antics land him a slice?
APPLE PIE ABC is a delicious twist on traditional verse brought to life by Alison Murray's simple words and...
| Author | Mike Venezia |
| ISBN | 0516422766 |
Author/Illustrator Mike Venezia has been getting to know the world's greatest artists for as long as he can remember. A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mike believes the best way to introduce children to art and artists is through fun. If children can look at art in a fun way, and...
| Author | Jacqueline Preiss Weitzman |
| ISBN | 0140568166 |
While she's in the Metropolitan Museum with her grandmother, a little girl leaves her prized yellow balloon tied to a railing outside. But its string becomes untied, and the balloon embarks on an uproarious journey through New York City. With an ever-increasing cast of wacky urban characters in tow,...
In the Garden with Van Gogh
| Author | Julie Merberg |
| ISBN | 0811834158 |
I have a few of the books in the series.
On the plus side, I really like the concept - picture books introducing famous artists to young children. What could be cooler than that?
Unfortunately, I don't like the writing that much. Prose would be perfectly suited for these pictures, but...
| Author | James Mayhew |
| ISBN | 1841216348 |
Katie visits five paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cezanne! Katie tries to pick the sunflower seeds from the Vincent Van Gogh painting, but when the vase tips over, the flowers go everywhere. Mimi, a little girl from a painting nearby, comes to help Katie, but when Mimi's dog Zazou comes too disaster...
Camille and the Sunflowers: A Story about Vincent van Gogh
| Author | Laurence Anholt |
| ISBN | 0812064097 |
"Where Camille lived, the sunflowers grew so high they looked like real suns. . .One day a strange man arrived in Camille's town. He had a straw hat and a yellow beard." So begins this fascinating tale of Camille, a little boy who is the son of a small-town postman. Camille meets the man with the yellow beard,...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0688104371 |
Leonardo Da Vinci
Non-Fiction Biography
Grades 4-7
Award-winning author and illustrator, Diane Stanley, chronicles the life of the artist Leonardo Da Vinci from his birth to his death. This biography contains a wealth of information and is told in a story that blends Renaissance...
Charley Harper ABCs: Chunky Edition
| Author | Charley Harper |
| ISBN | 1934429074 |
Lots of Kids books gonna be on this feed in the next few years since I'm Daddin' hard so be warned.
The kid's already got a Charley Harper bedsheet and a Charley Harper play mat so it's not crazy that she's got this ABCs book too. The art is fantastic and I'm a sucker for animals and anything naturey...
| Author | Britta Teckentrup |
| ISBN | 0763671274 |
I loved this spotting book. Wow did I ever find some pages hard, but many pages my little Zander who is 4 could do with the hint each page gave. Funny how it's so hard to see things and then once you see them you can always see them. It's a perfect book to talk about how not everything is always what you think.
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What Pete Ate from A to Z
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year
A Recommended New Book for Missouri Students
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year
Is there anything Pete won't eat? Poppy's charming yellow dog starts off by eating Rocky's accordion....
