Connecting art and language arts, this guide offers creative lessons for more than 140 favorite children's books, most of which have been published within the last 10 years. The lessons help teachers inspire young students to create art projects related to a book's story. In the first part of the book, the author explains more than 50 art techniques that can be used with almost any book, including batik, collage, decoupage, paste paper, and sponge painting. The second part of the book provides teachers with a wealth of illustrated lessons. Each lesson includes the book's title, the art project, a brief description of the story as it relates to the art project, supplies, instructions, bibliographic information, and a list of relevant Web sites.

Children's Books include:

Araminta's Paint Box

Arthur's Pet Business

Birdsong

Charlotte's Web

Dear Peter Rabbit

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Milo and the Magical Stones

Rechenka's Eggs

Where the Sidewalk Ends"

Introduce students to the principles and processes of advertising and communication. Hands-on activities with step-by-step instructions and reproducibles teach advertising layout, design, illustration, methods of collecting information about products and consumers, terminology, and copywriting. Suggestions for integrating the lessons with other subject areas are included. Grades 1-4 (adaptable to other levels).

The award-winning illustrations of 57 Caldecott Books (1938-1994) have inspired a multitude of lessons that guide students in creating art with similar qualities. Focusing on such principles and elements as line, color, texture, shape, value, and space, these classroom-tested projects have step-by-step instructions, materials lists, and detailed illustrations for teachers who have little or no art training. Various art media are explored, including pencil, crayon, marker, colored pencil, chalk, stencils, collage, watercolor, tempera, color mixing, and printmaking. These projects use limited materials so they're great for the classroom as well as the art room.