Color for Baby

by Yana Peel, Various (Illustrator)

Overview

Let the world’s best-known artists introduce your baby to the joy of color in this third title in the unrivaled Art for Baby series. Four mini fold-out concertina books, themed on red, yellow, green, and blue, feature famous works from Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Damien Hirst, Henri Matisse, and Yves Klein, among others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763671242
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	09/09/2014
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Yana Peel is the CEO of Intelligence Squared. In 2011, she was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and received the Mont Blanc Award for Arts Patronage. She has two young children.

Editorial Reviews

08/11/2014
Peel follows Art for Baby and Faces for Baby with a collection of four foldout board books, packaged as a boxed set. Each book focuses on a single color (red, yellow, green, and blue), examined through contemporary art: Roy Lichtenstein’s still life “Bananas and Grapefruit 1” joins work from Damien Hirst and Josef Albers in the yellow book, while a Warhol Campbell’s soup can appears alongside dogs from Keith Haring and Jeff Koons to highlight red. Peel includes a diverse grouping of artists, media, styles, and subject matter (each image is labeled, gallery-style), creating lots of early encouragement and examples for tomorrow’s art history majors. Up to age 3. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Four accordion-fold board books create a miniature art gallery of 20th- and 21st-century works, each book focusing on a different hue. ... Many of the images will draw young viewers in immediately, like Keith Haring’s boldly outlined dog... The entire set comes in a large, sturdy box, which is handy for home use... This set is sure to become a tummy-time favorite for baby art lovers.
—Kirkus Reviews

Peel includes a diverse grouping of artists, media, styles, and subject matter (each image is labeled, gallery-style), creating lots of early encouragement and examples for tomorrow’s art history majors.
—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2014-07-01
Four accordion-fold board books create a miniature art gallery of 20th- and 21st-century works, each book focusing on a different hue."Yellow" shares the geometric designs of Josef Albers and a photo of a sculpture by Urs Fischer of a golden croissant with a red butterfly resting on the tip, among others. "Blue" presents Henri Matisse's paper-cut birds and Sarah Morris' minimalist painting dubbed Novotel (Nice). "Green" showcases Cy Twombly's abstraction of peony blossoms as well as Julian Opie's cartoon of a crawling baby. "Red" features one of Andy Warhol's iconic soup-can paintings and a photo of Jeff Koons' bright red Balloon Dog sculpture. Many of the images will draw young viewers in immediately, like Keith Haring's boldly outlined dog, but others are too small or too low-contrast to have their desired impact, particularly a faint painting of a candle by Zhang Xiaogang. The only text comprises captions that label each reproduction and a hard-to-read list of all the artworks on the back panel of each book. The entire set comes in a large, sturdy box, which is handy for home use but poses problems for library circulation.While larger pages would have served these masterworks better, this set is sure to become a tummy-time favorite for baby art lovers. (Board book. 0-1)

Kirkus Reviews