350+ Free Activities for Preschoolers by Trish Kuffner
$17.00 NZD
$21.99 (22% off)
Category: Art and Music - children
350+ FREE ACTIVITIES FOR PRESCHOOLERS contains more 350 than activities to amuse, occupy, entertain and educate preschoolers using things found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to:* prevent boredom during the longest stretches of bad weather with ideas for indoor play, kitche ...Show more
Let's Sing with Jay Laga'aia by Jay Laga'aia
$14.99 NZD
Category: Art and Music - children
Sing along with Play School presenter Jay Laga'aia and his favourite songs from the CD 'Come Dance and Sing'. You can sing along and play along on the guitar or piano with our book of lyrics, guitar chords and melody lines. The songs in this lively collection are all about family and community.
...isms : Understanding Art by Stephen Little
$24.99 NZD
Category: Art and Music - children
This is an easy to use guide to a wide range of art 'isms'. From the isms of the Renaissance to the isms of now, it gives a practical introduction to all the significant isms that have shaped art history. For each ism, there is a definition, an introduction to the topic, lists of key artists, key words, ...Show more
A Visual Language: Elements of Design by David Cohen & Scott Anderson
$55.00 NZD
Category: Art and Music - children
This is a practical approach to the theory of visual language, taking the basics of line, shape, tone, colour, texture, form, scale, space and light and discussing how to use them. The first half of the book talks about how artists can use these elements to create their own visual language and how this ...Show more
Stories from the Ballet by Margaret Greaves
$15.84 NZD
Category: Art and Music - children
From Coppelia to Giselle, from The Sleeping Beauty to Swan Lake, here are eight stories of famous ballets. Romantic and Classical themes take their place beside folk and fairy tales, while much-loved comic ballets provide the fun. Each retelling is true to the ballet performed on stage, offering young r ...Show more
Camille and the Sunflowers by ANHOLT LAURENCE
$16.99 NZD
Category: Art and Music - children | Series: Anholt's Artists | Reading Level: 4-8
"Where Camille lived, the sunflowers grew so high they looked like real suns. . .One day a strange man arrived in Camille's town. He had a straw hat and a yellow beard." So begins this fascinating tale of Camille, a little boy who is the son of a small-town postman. Camille meets the man with the yellow ...Show more
Degas and the Little Dancer (Anholt's Artists) by Laurence Anholt
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Category: Art and Music - children | Series: Anholt's Artists | Reading Level: 5-9
Marie and her parents are very poor, but Marie dreams of being the most famous ballerina in the world. When she joins the big ballet school in Paris, she notices a fierce man sitting at the side, sketching the dancers. The old man is the painter Edgar Degas, and his renowned clay model of Marie the ball ...Show more
Tell Me a Picture by Quentin Blake
$39.95 NZD
Category: Art and Music - children
In this text, Quentin Blake picks some of his favourite paintings and encourages everyone to look for the stories they tell. The author has chosen 26 paintings and drawings, all with stories in mind. The pictures are by very different artists: some are illustrators of children's books from across the wo ...Show more
Look! : Zoom in on Art (1st Edition) by Gillian Wolfe
$29.99 NZD
Category: Art and Music - children | Reading Level: 5-10
In this fun and accessible book, children are encouraged to use their eyes to see paintings in a whole variety of ways. Each spread focuses on a different perspective with 14 perspectives in all. A simple text describes each painting.
Seen Art? HB by Jon Scieszka (illus Lane Smith)
$30.00 NZD
$32.00 (6% off)
Category: Art and Music - children
It all started when I told my friend Art I would meet him on the corner of Fifth and Fifty-Third. I didn't see him. So I asked a lady walking up the avenue, "Have you seen Art?" "MoMA?" asked the lady. "Uh . . . no, he's just a friend." "Just down Fifty-Third Street here. In a beautiful new building ...Show more
Ballet and Modern Dance by Susan Au
$36.95 NZD
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Category: Art and Music - children | Series: World of Art S.
A illustrated guide ranging from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap and world dance. Susan Au also examines the upsurge in revivals of such styles as ballroom, the Argentine tango and Irish step dancing, as well as the dancers' use of modern technology.