Customer Review: I was looking for a book about Picasso to use with middle school students. It is very well written and does not use confusing big words and gives a simple analysis of Picasso's development. A good introduction to art and an inspiration piece for kids!
Customer Review: This series by Mike Venezia is BRILLIANT!! I love the way he writes - so easy to read. He includes pertinent information, lots of the artist's drawings, and cartoons that make the material fun. The books are read alones for 3rd grade+ but my 4 year old enjoys heraing me read these books. What a... more info
Customer Review: I loved the fact that there is a children's book out there that contained all of my favorite works by Van Gogh, with text to support it, which can be read by my 7 year old. I don't know, perhaps I'm overprotective, but I didn't think one of the cartoons, showing a stick figure of "Mr. Van Gogh" in a... more info
Customer Review: I often have looked for kid-oriented books about art and artists, and usually end up putting them back on the shelf. This series by Mike Venezia was a hit with me (an artist)AND my grandchildren. They're witty but not cutesy, the information in them is actually well and interestingly explained in... more info
Customer Review: Mike Venezia's Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers series tends to focus on biographies rather than music appreciation because unlike his companion series on the World's Greatest Artists you cannot include a sonata the way you can a reproduction of a painting. However, for Ludwig Van... more info
Customer Review: Mike Venezia's series "GETTING TO KNOW THE WORLD'S GREATEST ARTISTS" is a reliable and consistent series of art history books for elementary grade children. Venezia's books may be read aloud to preschool aged children or younger elementary grade children or children in grades two, three or four may... more info
Customer Review: This book has both my boys (ages 6 & 4) laughing and singing (there is a made-up ditty about Heinrich the Pizza Man) and wanting to read the whole book repeatedly. The silly illustrations along with actual images make Bach's history understandable and interesting to the very young. Now we're all... more info
Customer Review: Like all of Venezia's books, this is a great introduction to the musician. The story is in simple to understand language so young children can easily grasp what is being explained. The only caution I would give is in regards to the "comics." Considering a few incidents I've had with my preschool... more info
Customer Review: We own over 30 of the Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists books. Georgia O'Keeffe's is one of my daughter's favorites. When she was 8 years old she used to sleep with five of the books like they were Teddy Bears because she loved them so much. They obviously have enormous appeal to children... more info
Customer Review: I read this to my pre-k and she loved it. We read this AFTER we saw David in Florence. I wish we had read it before as it would have built up the excitement of seeing the statue, but no matter, it was fun for her to learn about how Michelangelo grew up to become one of the most famous artists in the... more info
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