Bookscape Board Books: A Marvelous Museum: (Artist Board Book, Colorful Art Museum Toddler Book)

by Ingela P. Arrhenius (Illustrator)

Overview

Escape into a magical world with this adorable Bookscape Board Book! Discover a museum's exhibits in a one-of-a-kind format, complete with art by celebrated illustrator Ingela Arrhenius.

Each uniquely shaped page overlaps with the next to create a complete spread when closed—and an immersive world to explore with each turn of the page when open.

• Delightfully small and chunky board book
• Begs to be picked up thanks to its tactile, toy-like quality
• Filled with simple concept-based text and bright, playful illustrations

A Marvelous Museum provides a light introduction to art spaces kids will recognize—or soon encounter.

This cheerful and colorful board book is a great pick for parents and caregivers looking for a highly tactile and interactive introduction to the world of art and museums.

• A great gift for art and museum-loving new parents, grandparents, and caregivers, or for a baby shower or birthday
• Kids love the sturdy, toy-like quality of these shaped books
• Perfect for those who adored Painting with Picasso by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober, Peek-A Who? by Nina Laden, and TouchThinklearn: ABC by Xavier Deneux

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452174921
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	09/03/2019
Series:	Bookscape Board Books Series
Pages:	10
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 4.60(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Ingela P Arrhenius is an illustrator of books and gifts. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden.

Editorial Reviews

2019-08-26
Learn about the treasures museums hold in this intricately shaped board book.

Each page in this tiny handful of a board book is a dynamic silhouette that mimics the shape of an exhibit inside, ranging from a narrow, rounded sarcophagus page to the square of a glass-windowed diorama. Pages are thick and solid, and all together they look swell, multilayered and three-dimensional, though those unusually shaped edges also lead to quick fraying. Unfortunately, the pages' thickness limits the length, and with only five double-page spreads, it's short even by board-book standards. Related in alliterative descriptors, lines such as "discover details in dioramas and dinosaurs" are tongue-twistingly fun to read aloud, but heavy reliance on fairly complex vocabulary ("artifacts," "architecture") seems oddly mismatched to a toddler audience. Approachable, vividly colored art features stylized, nonthreatening versions of T. rex, animal dioramas, statuary, masks, and paintings rendered in a bold, graphic style with minimal detail and no shading. Child art patrons have a wide variety of skin hues, and their interactive poses, including one making eye contact with a taxidermied bear (all the art appears to peer back) or another imitating a mummy, make the experience of visiting a fine art museum feel accessible to younger audiences.

This sophisticated title will be a boon to adults planning a museum trip with young children. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews