Can You Find It? America: Search and Discover More Than 150 Details in 20 Works of Art - Hardcover

Metropolitan Museum Of Art; Falken, Linda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810988909 ISBN 13: 9780810988903

Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2010

Synopsis

The Can You Find It? books have delighted countless children, inviting them to look more closely at works of art by searching for hidden details. Now comes a new title in the series, featuring paintings, prints, and textiles from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each work is characteristically American, and each is filled with a wealth of details to discover. Among the works featured are Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emmanuel Leutze; Across the Continent: Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way”, by Frances Flora Bond Palmer for Currier & Ives; The Last Moments of John Brown, by Thomas Hovenden; Thanksgiving Turkey, by Grandma Moses; The Photographer, by Jacob Lawrence; and Street Story Quilt; by Faith Ringgold. Praise for the Can You Find It? series
 
Family Fun Our Favorite Things” selection
 
This is art as entertainment with an educational bent.” School Library Journal
 
It’s hard to fault a book that encourages young readers to pore over every square centimeter . . .” Booklist

About this title

About the Author:

Linda Falken is an editor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 2–5—This seek-and-find book features 20 examples of American art from the Metropolitan Museum, ranging from paintings to prints and quilts. Most of the clear, color reproductions focus on part of a work. Each picture is accompanied by a list of items to be found in it. The colors of the numerals ("4 dogs, 1 open window, 2 produce stands") are cleverly employed in dots on small black-and-white images at the end of the book, revealing the locations of the objects. The only shortcoming is that these illustrations are so small that readers may need a magnifying glass to peruse them. Additional information about each piece is included here as well. One goal of this seek-and-find is to teach children to look at art and observe its many details, encouraging them to play "Can You Find It?" whenever they visit a museum. This book will be a success with fans of art and puzzles alike.—Lisa Glasscock, Columbine Public Library, Littleton, CO
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About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0810988909
• ISBN 13: 9780810988903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40