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Booklist for Museum Visits

Before your next trip to an art museum, try reading one of these books with your children.

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Ages 0-3

Museum Alphabet: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Gisela Voss

One of several varieties of museum books including Museum Numbers, Museum Shapes and Museum Colors to make the museum experience a fun interactive learning adventure for children.

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Ages 4-8

Anna’s Art Adventure
Bjørn Sortland, Lars Elling

A visit to an art museum proves to be no ordinary field trip when Anna is absorbed by the masterpieces and gets acquainted with the artists.

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Art Dog
Thacher Hurd

Arthur, a guard for the Dogopolis Museum of Art and an upstanding canine citizen, is accused of a crime.

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Katie and the Mona Lisa
James Mayhew

Katie becomes friends with the famous smiling woman. The two cause quite a stir as they frolic around the museum.

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Squeaking of Art: The Mice Go to the Museum
Monica Wellington

Ten mice act as tour guides through 85 famous works of art and ask some motivating art related questions.

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Visiting the Art Museum
Laurene Krasny Brown and Marc Brown

Readers discover that there has always been art from primitive times to the 20th century and all over the world.

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You Can’t Take a Balloon into the
Metropolitan Museum
Jacqueiline Preiss Weitzman and Robin Preiss Glasser

A young girl and her grandmother explore the Metropolitan Museum while her balloon explores New York City.


 

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