Museum ABC

Museum ABC by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Little Brown Young Readers, 2002, hc. 60 pp. Ages: 4-8

This book could be used in a number of ways: learning phonics, picture study, or learning the alphabet. Each letter picture is isolated with one word on one page and on the opposite page there are four paintings with that word. For example, "E is for EGG." On on opposite page is Flowers by a Stone Vase by Peter Faes, Brown and White Eggs by Brian Connelly, Lela and the Swan by Bacchiacca, and The Broken Eggs by Jean Baptiste Greuze. These are all "details" that have eggs in the paintings. How did I know the titles of the paintings and the painters? At the end of the book each letter of the alphabet lists the information about the paintings: title, painter, years he/she lived, type of painting, and more.

Other titles in this series: Museum 123
                                     Museum Shapes
Also: Museum ABC Nesting Blocks