World Famous Comics: Can You Find It, Too?: Search and Discover More Than 150 Details in 20 Works of Art
Can You Find It, Too?: Search and Discover More Than 150 Details in 20 Works of Art
By: Judith Cressy Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Harry N. Abrams Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 40 Publication Date: November 01, 2004 Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Book Description: Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art The much anticipated follow-up to the award-winning Can You Find It?
In Can You Find It, Too? children approach art as detectives, browsing through 20 beautifully reproduced paintings in search of more than 150 details that are fun to find. With works from renowned institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and featuring art by renowned artists from all over the world, the search is on-for a musical horse, a nest of baby birds, even an artist's signature in worms! AUTHOR BIO: Judith Cressy has a degree in elementary art education and lives in New York City. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's leading cultural institutions, home to more than 2 million works of art.
A fun book for kids and adults to do together My sons (age 4 and 8) and I adore these books - I only wish they made more in the series. The books are simply laid out enough that a young kid could do the book by himself....if he has reading skills. Although I don't recall a beheading mentioned in the other review, smaller kids who can't read would need an adult to help them. In addition to being fun to search through, these books expose kids to a wide range of artistic periods - from both the East and the West. The books are also a good present for a 6th or 7th birthday - who needs another toy clogging up the toy box?
"I Spy" taken to a whole new level The only reason I did not give 5 stars is that I would have loved to see more famous works of art in the book, but I realized that since it comes from "The Metropolitan Museum of Art", they may not have those. It's a great way to remember art pieces. It's a fun way to study them as well. As for violence in some of the paintings, I did not see anything even remotely as gruesome as some images our children are exposed to on the news or even in cartoons nowadays. There is no reason to shut them off exposure to great art pieces because there is a battle scene in one of them.
Thre is an answer key at the end of the book, with items highlighed. I really appreciated that feature, having spent 3 days searching for an item in one of "I Spy" books. Those don't have answer key. In the same answer key, there is a short description of each painting, short background of the artwork. I found it very helpful as well.
Violent - what were they thinking? Good concept, poor choices. I purchased this book to give as a gift to my nephew. When it arrived, I opened the book to the middle and I could not believe what I was looking at. One of the art scenes is of a battle where a man charging on a horse has been decapitated. Blood is spewing from the headless neck, his necklace is falling in one direction, and his separated head (with a horror/surprise look on his face) is falling to the ground behind the horse. This is very gruesome, and there is no way I could give this as a gift a child of any age.
Wondering what could be worse, I turned the page to find another battle scene. One man is being struck to the back of the head with a club/mace and his head is caved by the blow. I am not making this up, the head is split open and details are painted. Many others in this same art work lie dead and dieing with arrows in their heads and torsos.
I look at the next artwork, and a man is pinning another to the ground while he slices his throat with a knife.
Why would someone pick these art works? Why would the editors allow them? I'm still stunned that this would make it print.
not pleasant Some of the works of art are lovely, but 2 are too violent for a child to study. In one, a man is being beheaded and another shows a nightmarish scene with a man on fire. Is this the best the author could find? Sure to turn some children away from art.
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