"Say goodnight and celebrate art in this creative peek through format! Ignite an early love of art and send little ones gently off to sleep as you whisper, Peek-a-Boo Art! Includes work from: Vincent Van Gogh, Diego Rivera, Berthe Morisot, and more!"--Page 4 of cover.

What happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and practices of publishing for children? This study explores how over three hundred children's picture books, most of them published in the last three decades in English, introduce children to art and art museums. It considers how the books emerge from and relate to a range of theories and assumptions about childhood and childhood development, children's literature and culture, illustration, visual art, museology, and art education. As well as examining how these theories and assumptions influence what picture books teach young readers about visiting museums and about how to look at and think about art, it examines which artists and artworks appear most often in picture books and offers a survey of different kinds of art-related picture books: ones that claim to be purely informational, ones that make looking at art a game or a puzzle, ones in which children visit art museums, and many more. Since the books all include reproductions of or allusions to museum artworks, the study also considers the problems illustrators face in depicting museum artworks in illustrations in a different style.

This is the authoritative checklist and up-to-date price guide for more than 50,000 contemporary collectibles-limited edition plates, bells, figurines, ornaments, dolls, cottages, steins and graphics. The complete lines of more than 100 well-known manufacturers are included, among them Annalee "RM", Mobilitee Dolls, Beanie Babies, Giuseppe Armani, Department 56 "RM", Inc., The Franklin Mint, Lilliput Lane, Lladro, M.I. Hummel Club, Precious Moments, The Royal Copenhagen Group, Swarovski America Ltd., and The Walt Disney Company. For each item, the stock/item number, title, series name, artist/designer, edition limit, issue price and current price quote are given. Collectors' Information Bureau (CIB) is a not-for-profit trade association in the field of limited-edition collectibles. CIB produces reference books, price guides and a newsletter for the collectibles market.

Snuggle up and ease your child off to sleep reading Joseph Coelho's lullaby-like poems. Lyrical, calming and beautifully illustrated, these peaceful poems are a magical way to end the day.