Poetry Friday: Mini Masters

Art and poetry? Could it be better? Celebrate Poetry Friday with this classic boxed set of Mini Masters. Included are Dancing with Degas, In the Garden with Van Gogh, A Magical Day with Matisse, and A Picnic with Monet. Famous paintings are paired with rhyming texts which describe the masterpieces.

Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober's rhymes introduce these incredible master images and invite further imaginings. From In the Garden with Van Gogh:

Twelve sunflowers
lean toward the light.
Five are wide open,
seven shut tight.

From Dancing with Degas:

Tired dancers
rest legs and feet,
and dream of floating
off to sleep.

Aside from this boxed treasure, look for single titles: Painting with Picasso, Quiet Time with Cassatt, Sharing with Renoir, Sunday with Seurat, Dreaming with Rousseau, and On an Island with Gauguin. I love this collection! Happy Poetry Friday!

Mini Masters, Boxed Set
by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober
Chronicle Books, 2006

A Magical Day With Matisse by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober

Do you know Mini Masters from Chronicle Books? I love this series, and you certainly will as well. How about combining a rhyming text upon a colored field, opposite Henri Matisse' paintings? Magical!

The text of A Magical Day with Matisse describes the content of the masterpiece featured on each spread.



It then arcs into a story as the reader joins characters outside for fun, then returns inside to rest, feast, and finally sleep. Your totz will be exposed to great works of art, absorb the style of Matisse, and learn the skill of reading and interpreting paintings.

Among other works included in the series: A Picnic with Monet, Dancing with Degas, and In the Garden with Van Gogh. Look for the boxed series sets as well.

Thank you, Chronicle Books, for treasuring fine art and totz!

A Magical Day with Matisse
by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober
Chronicle Books, 2002