Learning Through Art: The Guggenheim Museum Collection
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Complete with a felt-tip pen, this delightful and innovative activity book has been inspired by the 25-year-old Learning Through Art/The Guggenheim Museum Children’s Program, which harnesses the arts to play a crucial role in helping children to learn to read and write. Includes color reproductions of 12 masterpieces.
Learning Through Art: The Guggenheim Museum Collection
Through the Looking Glass: Further Adventures & Misadventures in the Realm of Children’s Literature
- ISBN13: 9781567923186
- Condition: USED – Very Good
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SELMA LANES is to the picture book what Henry James is to the modern novel, the critic who has most clearly and forcefully put forth an aesthetics of the form. In this new collection of essays, profiles, and reviews, she examines the work of the masters she admires most: Maurice Sendak, William Steig, Edward Gorey, Tomi Ungerer, and Beatrix Potter. She also considers the works of other artists for children — Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, J. K. Rowling, Laura Ingalls Wilder — and the legacy of a children’s book editor of unusual genius, Ursula Nordstrom, who was ferocious in her desire to bring young readers the best that American writers and illustrators had to offer. Lanes repeatedly asks the essential questions: What makes some books work and others fail? How does art and literature for the young reflect, distort, or create a social perspective? Can the book hold its own in a childhood culture dominated by television, computers, and video games? As always, her answers are, in the words of Publishers Weekly, “articulate . . . thoughtful . . . delectable.”
Through the Looking Glass: Further Adventures & Misadventures in the Realm of Children’s Literature
What Was It Like?: Teaching History And Culture Through Young Adult Literature
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This practical book is a great resource for teachers who want to engage their students with young adult literature. The author presents in-depth, instructional units centered on historical conflicts and texts that will help students to better understand other cultures and time periods. An array of active learning strategies place students close to the featured novel or memoir while meeting standards and addressing a broad range of critical thinking skills. Historical themes center on: the Depression; Mexican American migrant farm workers; children during the Holocaust; the internment of the Japanese during WWII; the Japanese occupation of Korea; the U.S. Civil Rights Movement; the experience of U.S. soldiers and children affected by the Vietnam War. This book features: depictions of active learning in the English classroom, including many examples of student work with accompanying photos, web pages, and more; a variety of adaptable assignments designed to promote empathy and deepen students’ awareness of the world around them; and, young adult literature that has proven to be of interest to students and relevant to their lives.
What Was It Like?: Teaching History And Culture Through Young Adult Literature
