Art Book Recommendations

Kindergarten

DRAWING BOOKS:
I Can Draw Animals (Gibson)
I Can Draw People (Gibson)
What Shall I Draw? (Gibson)
Great Thumbprint Drawing Book (Emberly)

OTHER BOOKS:
Art Dog (Hurd) and No One Saw (Raczka)
Babar's Museum of Art (de Brunhoff, 5-8)
Museum ABC (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Museum 123 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Museum Shapes (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Colors: A First Art Book (Micklethwait)
Animals: A First Art Book (Micklethwait)
Children: A First Art Book (Micklethwait)
I Spy: An Alphabet in Art (Micklethwait)
I Spy Two Eyes: Numbers in Art (Micklethwait)

1st Grade

DRAWING BOOKS:
Drawing Book of Animals (Emberly)
Drawing Book of Faces (Emberly)
Drawing Book of Trucks and Trains (Emberly)
Make a World (Emberley)
Kids Can Draw Animals of the World (Legendre)
Kids Can Draw Prehistoric Animals (Legendre)
Kids Can Draw Animal Fun (Legendre)

OTHER BOOKS:
Can You Find It? (Cressy)
Can You Find It, Too? (Cressy)
Can You Find It Inside? (Schulte)
Can You Find It Outside? (Schulte)
Degas and the Little Dancer (Anholt)
Camille and the Sunflowers (Anholt)
Leonardo and the Flying Boy (Anholt)
Katie Meets the Impressionists (Mayhew)
Katie's Sunday Afternoon (Mayhew)

2nd Grade

DRAWING BOOKS:
How to Draw Animals (Levy)
How to Draw Farm Animals (Levy)
How to Draw Pets (Levy)
How to Draw Funny Faces (Levy)
Ralph Masiello's Bug Drawing Book (Masiello)

"GETTING TO KNOW GREAT ARTISTS" SERIES (Mike Venezia):
Degas Matisse O'Keeffe
Gauguin Michaelangelo Raphel
Giotto Monet Van Gogh

OTHER BOOKS:
Dogs' Night (Hooper and Curless)
Look! Look! Look! (Wallace)
When Pigasso Met Mootisee (Laden)
Math-terpieces (Tang)
How Artists See Families (Carroll)
How Artists See Weather (Carroll)

3rd Grade

DRAWING BOOKS:
How to Draw Flowers (Levy)
How to Draw Planes, Trains, and Boats (Levy)
How to Draw Forest Animals (Levy)
How to Draw Wild Animals (Levy)
How to Draw Storybook Characters (Levy)

"GETTING TO KNOW GREAT ARTISTS" SERIES (Mike Venezia) :
Botticelli Picasso Renoir
Calder Rembrandt Rosseau
El Greco Rivera Vermeer

OTHER BOOKS:
How Artists See the Elements (Carroll)
How Artists See Heroes (Carroll)
How Artists See Work (Carroll)

4th Grade

DRAWING BOOKS:
How to Draw Ghosts, Goblins, Witches, and ... (Levy)
How to Draw Wizards, Dragons, and ... (Levy)
How to Draw Sea Creatures (Levy)
How to Draw Funny Monsters (Levy)
How to Draw Insects (Levy)
How to Draw Birds (Levy)
How to Draw Cats (Levy)
How to Draw Dogs (Levy)
How to Draw People (Levy)

"GETTING TO KNOW GREAT ARTISTS" SERIES (Mike Venezia):
Cezanne Kahlo Titian
Chagall Klee Toulouse-Latrec
de Vinci Magritte Velazques
Delacroix Seurat

OTHER BOOKS:
Who Was Leonardo da Vinci (Edwards)
Draw 50 Buildings and Other Structures (Ames)
Buildings (Wilkinson, Pockets --only available used)
Amazing Buildings (Wilkinson -- only available used)
How Artists See Cities (Carroll)
How Artists See People (Carroll)

5th Grade

DRAWING BOOKS:
Draw 50 Cats (Ames)
Draw 50 Dogs (Ames)
Draw 50 Horses
Draw 50 Animals (Ames)
Draw 50 Endangered Animals (Ames)

"GETTING TO KNOW GREAT ARTISTS" SERIES (Mike Venezia):
Cassatt Lichtenstein Warhol
Homer Grandma Moses Whistler
Hopper Remington Wood
Lange Rockwell

OTHER BOOKS:
How Artists See America (Carroll)
How Artists See Animals (Carroll)
How Artists See Feelings (Carroll)
How Artists See Play (Carroll)

6th Grade

DRAW 50 BOOKS:
Draw 50 Athletes (Ames)
Draw 50 Boats, Ships, Trains, and Trucks (Ames)
Draw 50 Famous Faces (Ames)
Draw 50 Flowers, Trees, and Other Plants (Ames)
Draw 50 People (Ames)
Draw 50 Sharks, Whales, and Other Sea Creatures (Ames)
Draw 50 Vechicles (Ames)

OTHER BOOKS:
Art Fraud Detective (Nilsen)
Mark Kistler's Draw Squad
Mark Kistler's Imagination Station
How to Draw Cartoons for Comic Strips (Hart)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About
Cartooning But Were Afraid to Draw (Hart)