Tigers and Sails and ABC Tales

Rating:
Summary: Pedestrian?
Review: (...)! I am a parent and have a large family. I am also very well educated and not a librarian! I can only say that the friends to whom I have lent this book say that their children love the text and are captivated by the quality and content of the reproductions. I would like to know why all children's books must have the same idiotic cant? It's as if there is a huge children's book factory out there that pumps out insipid books that have the same monotonous rhymes. Change is scary to librarians and especially to parents. I say buy this book and challenge your child to learn something scholarly, new and different.

Rating:
Summary: A is for Artist
Review: Tigers and Sails and ABC Tales is an excellent book for
introducing young children to a variety of art and artists
while they practice their ABCs. Each of the pieces featured
in the book was donated to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. The artists range from Renoir
to C?zanne, and from Homer to Picasso.

The book comes with an accompanying video, in which a
variety of children read the text of the book while viewing
both the paintings featured in the book as well as some
lovely bonus paintings. The children are enthusiastic and
adorable, although sometimes a little hard to understand.

Particularly enjoyable was the variation on the ABC song.
For all the parents out there who are tired of the same old
tune playing over and over again in their heads, this one is
catchy and fun, and does not cause children to believe that
there is a letter called LMNOP.

Rating:
Summary: A is for Artist
Review: Tigers and Sails and ABC Tales is an excellent book for
introducing young children to a variety of art and artists
while they practice their ABCs. Each of the pieces featured
in the book was donated to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. The artists range from Renoir
to Cézanne, and from Homer to Picasso.

The book comes with an accompanying video, in which a
variety of children read the text of the book while viewing
both the paintings featured in the book as well as some
lovely bonus paintings. The children are enthusiastic and
adorable, although sometimes a little hard to understand.

Particularly enjoyable was the variation on the ABC song.
For all the parents out there who are tired of the same old
tune playing over and over again in their heads, this one is
catchy and fun, and does not cause children to believe that
there is a letter called LMNOP.