Artful Reading - Bob Raczka

Millbrook Press, Minneapolis (Lerner)
2008
Rating: 5

Read by yourself. (Macke)
Read with each other. (Peale)
Read one good book. Then read another. (Van Gogh)
Read to discover what something means. (Degas)
Read to escape to a place you can dream. (Rossetti)
Read the news. (Cezanne)
Or read a globe. (Vermeer)
Read in a dress. (Fragonard)
Or read in your robe. (Durer)
Read while you wait for your train to come in. (Manet)
Read to find out how somebody's been. (Vermeer)
Read in a graden. (Cassatt)
Read in a house. (Messina)
Read by the window. (Matisse)
Read on the couch. (Renoir)
Read while you work. (Massys)
Read while you ride. (Hopper)
Read what you want. It's for you to decide. (Avery)
Read when you're young (Chardin)
Read when you're old. (Rembrandt)
Read all the words you can possibly hold. (Spitzweg)*
Read to friend, That's what friends are for. (Picasso)
Read all your life and you'll never be bored. (Lawrence)

Most of the page is filled with the art piece that illustrates that line - a few (Lawrence, Manet, Avery, Renoir) cover both pages - each double page is framed at the edge with a rufflly brown.

This is Raczka's eighth art book for young readers. It sure was a hit with me! What a great model to use in an artist's study, one artist, or several. A million ways to use in a classroom, and a great way to share rhyme and rhythm and great painters and painting to kids!

*Note: This Spitzweg painting is at the Milwaukee Public Library, sure to be and included destination in my next midwestern quilt shop hop.....