 All About Young Children and Their Art
by Ursula Kolbe Second Edition
Rapunzel's Supermarket: All About Young Children and Their Art is an inspirational book filled with ideas for helping children realise their potential as image-makers. Building on children’s curiosity about their world, it offers many suggestions for drawing, painting, collage, clay work, puppet making and much more. A wonderful resource for all who live and work with young children.
Rapunzel's Supermarket: - invites readers to look at how children find magic in everyday things and how they delight in discovering colours, shapes, textures and patterns
- offers new insights into the complexities of children's image-making
- looks at types of image-making of greatest use to young children - drawing, painting, claywork, collage, construction and printmaking - and shows how they enable children to explore and communicate thoughts
- provides ample practical information, empowering the adult with the confidence to appreciate, support and guide children's image-making as a co-explorer
The second edition includes a new eight page chapter and updated Further Reading.
'...destined to become a classic. Ursula is a fascinating writer who shares ideas about how to interact with children.'
BARBARA PISCITELLI, AM, Every Child, Vol 7, No 4, Spring 2001 'A treasure…. The juxtaposition of the words in the title captures the intersection between things imaginative and things practical… looks and reads like the work of an artist.'
LAURIE KOCHER, Canadian Child, Vol 27, No 2, Fall 2003 More reviews Author Ursula Kolbe is a Sydney-based artist with 30 years of experience in early childhood education as a teacher, university lecturer, writer and filmmaker. Her publications include books, articles, films and videos about the arts and young children. Inspired by the Reggio Emilia Educational Project, Ursula has travelled to Reggio Emilia, Italy, on three occasions to visit the preschool and infant toddler programs. Now, when not writing, she paints and exhibits and is preparing for forthcoming art exhibitions in 2006. Also by Ursula Kolbe: It's Not a Bird Yet: The Drama of Drawing . Audience: All who live or work with young children aged 0-6. ISBN 978-0-9757722-1-8. Over 240 photographs in colour, black & white.
136 pages, soft cover, 270 mm x 220 mm (8 1/2" x 10 1/2"). Published January 2007
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