Look!: Zoom in on Art - Tapa dura

In this fun and accessible book, children are encouraged to use their eyes to see paintings in a whole variety of ways. Each spread focuses on a different perspective with 14 perspectives in all. A simple text describes each painting. Children are encouraged to answer questions about the images, then to try an art activity of their own. Look up, and we see a painting of a trapeze artist at the top of a circus tent ("The Flying Cordonos" by John Stewart Curry), and we gaze up at the vertical sides of jostling skyscrapers ("Windows" by Charles Sheeler). Look again at the paintings of the vegetables. Things aren't quite what they seem. When you turn it upside down, there is the face of a gardener with a grinning mushroom mouth ("The Vegetable Gardener" by Guiseppe Arcimboldo).

GILLIAN WOLFE has been the Head of Education at Dulwich Picture Gallery (one of the most renowned private collections in the UK) since 1984. She also works as a freelance consultant, and has lectured all over the world. Her previous art books for children include My First Art Book (OUP), winner of the Parent Choice Silver Honour Award, USA; and Art Activity Book and Children's Art Book (Bellow Publishing), both winners of the Gulbenkian Prize for Best Museum Publications of the Year. In 1995 she was awarded the MBE for Services to Education.