Teaching Art

The double-page, full-bleed pastels look right for a picture book for young readers, with skillfully drafted, jewel-colored spreads. A close-up of a dead tiger with a poacher's bullet hole through its head, though, seems to point to an older audience. Ages 4-8.

Awesome illustrations of an urban environment and if you look closely enough you will see numbers in each image.

Publishers Weekly Review:
This companion to Johnson's Caldecott Honor book Alphabet City once again inspires readers to closely examine an urban setting to find its hidden treasures. All ages. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

The illustrator, Kyrsten Brooker lives with her family in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her inventive illustrations can be found in many popular picture books.
Using collage and paint the dynamic illustrations in this book provide extraordinary detail and texture. They accurately convey the mathematical despair of the main character. Use this book when teaching expression, movement, collage and colour limitation in your art class.

Caroll Simpson taught Native art and drama to grade-school children for many years before buying a remote fishing lodge in the northern interior of British Columbia.

"The imaginative and energetic text is matched by the bright illustrations. Béha's mixed media collage images are busy and ...intriguing. Béha's daring use of colour and form is suggestive of the work of Dali."
The Undesirables is a story of treason that begins with a king and queen issuing the order to "Lock up all the undesirables!" In this highly imaginative alphabet book, the royal majesties make a list of those that should be imprisoned... (CM Magazine http://umanitoba.ca/cm/vol15/no11/theundesirables.html)

"Lance Woolaver is a Halifax author and playwright who has published several books and plays about Maud Lewis. The art of Maud Lewis is among Canada's greatest treasures. Though she lived in conditions of abject poverty and was crippled by severe arthritis her creative imagination soared above these difficult circumstances."

"In 1926, women were thought to be the weaker sex, but this indomitable young athlete broke the men's record by two hours when she swam the English Channel.
In the acrylic paintings, characters with large bodies and small heads, suggesting Depression-era art, are set on impressionistic backgrounds. The pictures of the swirling, rough water add fluidity and motion, and the perspectives that show the small figure of the swimmer in the vast sea capture the immensity of Ederle's endeavor. Attractive formatting and large type make this story of achievement inspiring to read aloud." (School Library Journal Review)