Can You Find It Outside?: Search and Discover for Young Art Lovers [Hardcover]

Jessica Schulte (Author)

Book Description

Grade Level: K and up

Based on the best-selling series, Can You Find It? , this edition focuses on art set outside, providing a fun way for young readers to learn about classic art by bringing the museum to them.

Can You Find It Outside? makes discovering art fun! After reading this book, young readers will be saying, "I spy great art!" Here's a seek-and-find book that invites youngsters to look at art in a special way: very closely! Whether it's a garden by Vincent van Gogh, a boat race by Thomas Eakins, or a peaceable kingdom by Edward Hicks, in this book each of the thirteen paintings, reproduced in full color, invites young children to explore works of art depicting a variety of outdoor scenes.

Written in simple rhyme with major works form The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, this book asks children to take a close, closer and closest look at classic fine art at an early age.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Gr. 2-4. Like the previous volumes by Judith Cressy in the Can You Find It? series, published in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this book has children look for specific items in a series of paintings. Unlike the previous volumes, in which a simple text on each spread lists things to pick out of the paintings, here rhymed couplets pose questions for children to answer. It would be easy to dismiss a book with rhymes like "Can you find it? Do you see? / A chicken perches by a tree. / Not so far, now look nearby / And see a horse who's staying dry. / Now get ready and get set / To find a wagon getting wet." On the other hand, it's hard to pass up a book with thirteen fine paintings that are accessible to children, beautifully reproduced, and (many of them) not often found in art books for young people. And unlike its companion, Schulte's Can You Find It Inside? it even includes a few nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century paintings of black and Asian subjects. On the last three pages, a small color reproduction of each picture appears along with information identifying the painting and the artist. Carolyn Phelan
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About the Author

Jessica Schulte is a Project Editor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She lives in New York City.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Twenty-Sixth an edition (2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9780810957954
• ISBN-13: 978-0810957954
• ASIN: 0810957957
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #467,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #86 in Books > Children's Books > Arts, Crafts & Music > Art > Painting

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outside is a winner!, December 30, 2007

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Carol W. (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Can You Find It Outside?: Search and Discover for Young Art Lovers (Hardcover)

I gave this book to my 2 1/2-year-old granddaughter for Christmas and it was an immediate hit. She asked to have it read to her right away and had great fun listening to the rhyme on each page and finding the answer to the rhyme in the artwork. The mix of paintings gives her lots of new images to look at and think about, very different from most of the pictures in her other books. The masterpieces pictured are definitely mind expanding while the rhymes are fun and their focus fun to find in the pictures.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Creative, interactive fun, October 24, 2008

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E. Williamson "Grandma La-La" (Chicago area, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can You Find It Outside?: Search and Discover for Young Art Lovers (Hardcover)

We purchased this product for our three-year old grandson. And what a find it turned out to be!

He went through the book with Grandma, finding the items I named from the text and then also finding items I noticed and named on my own from the picture. Then he immediately took the book to Grandpa to repeat the process. All three of us loved seeing the art work and watching for details. And the pictures have vivid enough colors to be easy on the eye (in contrast to other reviews of the "Can You Find It Inside" companion).

As our little guy grows, we'll use the concepts for helping him learn to add "hidden" details to his own art.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can You Find It Outside?, January 9, 2007

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Marion J. Layton - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can You Find It Outside?: Search and Discover for Young Art Lovers (Hardcover)

An excellent book for teaching children that there is more to see in the world and starting them apperciating real art. Trips to the musuem could follow a reading of this book. Also a good book to read with the younger child to have a closer parental relationship.