This is brilliant! Such a great fun read with loads of ideas that the kids will love! They will be kept busy for ages, highly recommend. 5 stars from me.

Modern Art for Kids is a great resource to introduce art to children. I really liked the layout of the book with information about art movements and artists in the front and projects in the back. I saw so many fun ideas I plan to try with my son.

This is a very well-planned and organised book to introduce art to children. The way the author starts by introducing different art movements and painters and then finishes off with an art activity for children to create a piece of art in the same style can help children feel connected to what they are learning.

The rationale behind the book lay out at the beginning of the book is also in tune with my own pedagogical belief. I whole-heartedly recommend this book to all parents.

This is a very good and accessible introduction to the various movements of art within the modern art period. Each movement gets a brief overview and then an example artist or two, each of which also gets a brief overview. For example, Impressionism features Claude Monet and Edgar Degas.

Each artist is then followed by a project for kids to complete. Some make more sense than others, but most are interesting and look like fun. Some of the suggested projects are a bit strange, however. The project for surrealism under Rene Magritte is to have a grownup take a photo of you (the kid) in a suit jacket and bowler hat and biting an apple, and then to paste the photo onto a background of the sky. Which... obviously connects to Magritte's famous painting, but I feel like there is a better project out there to teach about surrealism. Also how many kids have suit jackets and bowler hats?

The layout of the book is easy to follow and full of vibrant colors and interesting compositions. The text is readily understandable while conveying a lot of information.

Overall this has a lot of good information about modern art and projects that look like they will be fun for kids to complete. I would recommend it to elementary-school classrooms and families.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group - Quarry Books for providing an early copy for review.

This is the kind of book the adult trying to read the book to the kids suddenly announces “forget the kids! Let me get to this real quick and it’s so good and I am learning things!”

Exactly. That adult is me when I read the advance reading copy. Thank you, Quarto Publishing Group - Quarry. I do find this book quite useful and informative. I do feel a bit underwhelmed by the cover but what matters most is the actual content at the end of the day.

Different kinds of art style/forms are explained as an introduction of the content which I really appreciate. Various prominent artists who started such art forms are introduced in between. Various related terms and materials are explained well. The entire book is colourful and fills your eyes/ mind with colours!

I don’t think I will ever get enough of this book! Will get more from rereading I am telling you!