Abrams Books Faces, Places, and Inner Spaces: A Guide to Looking at Art Faces. Places, and Inner Spaces: A Guide to Looking at Art ISBN: 0810959666

Faces, Places, and Inner Spaces is a wonderful, innovative book that will get children to look at art in a whole new way. This book gives examples of how artists use faces, places, and inner spaces and explains how artists come to their unique visions. Featured are an African mask, a West Mexican clay-pole dance scene, a Hindu sculpture, a Chinese screen, a Japanese actor print, as well as a box by Cornell, and paintings by Van Gogh, Seurat, and many others. After exploring each of these topics, young readers will be prepared to take a new look at art and will understand how artists help shape our views of the world. As an interactive way to get youngsters thinking about the concepts in the book, a pocket at the back of the book contains a mirror, so kids can look at and discuss their own face; a picture frame; and an acetate sheet to use for other activities. Book specifications: hardback, 48 pgs., 10 in. x 10 in. Publisher: Abrams, 2006.