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The Barnes & Noble Review
Have your budding Picassos and Rembrandts looking at art and learning their ABC's! The wildly popular Baby Einstein series now includes this handsome primer in which alphabet learners can test their fine-art thinking skills. The letter "B," for example, shows a large picture of Paul Klee's Ballon Rouge opposite the letter itself, the word "balloon," the sentence "B is for balloon," and two analytical questions: "Point to the balloon in the painting. What color is it?" and "The balloon is a circle shape. What other shapes do you see?" Other letters follow the same format, with featured artwork, in this educationally brilliant 26-piece gallery including Flag on an Orange Field by Jasper Johns, Octopus by Alexander Calder, Nicholas Hillard's The Ermine Portrait (for "Queen"), and William Wegman's F Ray X Ray. An excellent method for introducing the world of art appreciation to toddlers, this masterpiece is certain to help parents coach their children As Better Critics. Matt Warner

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