Teaching Art with Books Kids Love: Art Elements, Appreciation, and Design with Award-Winning Books (Paperback)

by Darcie Clark Frohardt (Illustrator), Darcie Frohardt (Author)

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Product Description
Using more than 100 illustrations from 20 Caldecott Medal or Honor books, this delightful resource provides teachers with all the tools necessary for teaching art. Classroom teachers will find that the explanations of artistic elements and principles of design, as well as examples and project directions, provide everything a busy teacher needs. Complete with bibliographies and lists of related fine art, this curriculum also relates the projects to the Core Knowledge Sequence Content Guidelines for Grades K-5. Teaching Art with Books Kids Love is an invaluable resource for teachers required to teach art and art instructors looking for fresh ideas.

From the Publisher
Easy art lessons and award-winning children's books-the perfect mix! Using award-winning books, Frohardt teaches realism, surrealism, expressionism, naive, and cartoon. Complete projects and thorough directions, enhanced by liberal illustrations and easy-to-use materials and ideas, make this an excellent resource for grades 3-6.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing (September 8, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555914063
• ISBN-13: 978-1555914066
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,772 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resourse for Primary Grades, August 23, 2003

By	HCR "holiday" (United States) - See all my reviews

This book is a great resource for learning how art is put together as well as experiencing different types of 2-dimentional art. This book is an easy read for the educator. Each chapter has projects for helping children understand the concept as well as recommendations for children books that put the art idea into action.

The book begins with the elements of art such as line, shapes, texture and so on, this is followed by the principles of art like harmony, balance, movement ... and finally to artistic styles such as realism, impressionism, etc.

Example: Chapter 8, Variety and Contrast
explains why artists use variety and contrast and what methods they use, references to fine art and children's literature are given, apply technique by drawing flies in different sizes, facing different ways and with different patterns

Note: You do not need the reference books to use this book, it is only additional help. We did not use it and enjoyed the book.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This author walks her talk, September 2, 2000

By A Customer

Not only is this an excellent way to bring art and literature together in the classroom, but the author proves each day how well her strategies work. I am a colleague of Darcie Frohardt and see the amazing results she gets from children every day. This book is for "all" teachers (not just art teachers), and the books she teaches from are readily available in your school library. In fact, you'll probably own most of them yourself. In a time when the arts are being threatened by the standardization of education, Darcie's book is a shining light. Go ahead, give it a try. You will be glad you did.

33 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars children's books LISTED, not pictured, July 7, 2000

By A Customer

As far as teaching art concepts, principles, elements, style, this is a good book.

BUT...I thought this book would include picture examples from the "more than 20 Caldecott... books" mentioned. The way the synopsis on the back of the book reads "Using more then 100 illustrations and award winning children's books..." is technically correct. There are pictures & there are books, the pictures are just not OF or FROM the books. All the pictures were "created by the author"(p.xvi). The books are included in each chapter as "Children's Literature Examples" and given in a sort of bibliography type format. "Famous...books...are listed. Finding examples can be frustrating...Don't spend a lot of time on it..." (p.xv).

Perhaps this was meant to foster trips to the library, but I am still dissapointed.