Do You See What I See? by Helen Borten

This is a delightful children’s book about elements of art:  line, shape and color.  There is a tour at the Meadows Museum called, “Learning to Look,” for Grades 1-5.  Identifying basic elements of art is part of it, so when I saw this book in Brainpickings, I checked it out of the library.  It’s so on-point that I had to have my own copy.  Maybe I’ll ask to add it to the docents’ library.

I’m dreaming of creating a combination of story hour and art tour, but our time is limited to an hour & the kids need to do most of the talking so it could be tricky.

Here’s the beginning of the book:

“I see lines and shapes and colors everywhere around me…When you put them together they make a picture.  Some pictures make me laugh out loud; other made me want to cry.  Some pictures are as exciting as a ride on a roller coaster.  Others make me feel as quiet as falling snow.  That’s because the lines and shapes and colors in them are arranged in different ways.”

Nice, eh?