Kidspace Art Resource List

Books for Adults:

• A Palette of Fun with Arts and Crafts, 4-H CCS, 2001
• Stories in My Pocket, Tales Kids Can Tell by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss, Fulcrum Publishing, 1996.
• Teaching Drawing from Art  by Wilson, Hurwitz, and Wilson.

Children's Literature:

• The Jollymon by Jimmy & Savannah Jane Buffet, Scholastic Books, 1988.
• Tough Boris by Mem Fox, Voyager Bookers Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998.
• The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Jane Yolen, Voyager Bookers Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998.
• The Faithful Friend by Robert D. SanSouci, Simon & Schuster for Young Readers, 1995 (Caldecott Honor Book; Coretta Scott King Award) - Martinique
• Tap-Tap by Karen Lynn Williams, Clarion Books, 1994 - Haiti
• My Little Island by Frané Lessac, Harper & Row Publishers (Reading Rainbow Book) - Caribbean 
• Rata-pata-scata-fata by Philis Gershator, Little Brown and Company, 1994. - Virgin Islands
• Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert, Crown Publisher's, 1990.
• You Can't Take a Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum by Jacqueline Preiss Weitman and Robin Preiss Glasser, 1998
• Art Fraud Detective by Anna Nilsen, 2000
• Linnea in Monet's Garden by Christina Bjork, 1985
• The Great Art Adventure by  Bob Knox, 1993

• The Mapmakers Daughter by M.C. Helldorfer, Bradbury Press, New York, 1991

• Make It Work: Maps by Andrew Haslam, Scholastic Inc., New York, 1996

Internet Resources:

• Linotype – the largest type library at www.linotypelibrary.com. Look for Font of the week.

• See the work of contemporary calligraphers at www.calligraphicarts.org/gallery.html

• See medieval manuscripts at www2.art.utah.edu/Paging_Through/ 

• Sanford A Lifetime of Color -  Resources for creative individuals from beginner to advanced.

• Working with Maps: Map Adventures, USGS Learning Web, Grades K – 3 http://www.usgs.gov/education/learnweb/MA/MAGuide.html

•  What Do Maps Show? USGS Learning Web, Grade 5 – 8 http://www.usgs.gov/education/learnweb/MA/MAGuide.html

• Make a mountain topo map!, The Space Place at JPL 

• Relief Map Puzzle, The Space Place, JPL

• National Gallery of Art: www.nga.gov

• National Gallery of Arts Kids, Adventure with Art - Activities and Projects

• Smithsonian Institute:  www.si.edu

• Art Institute of Chicago

• Museum of Modern Art: www.moma.org

• Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe Space Place, Technology Inspired Art

• Youth Learn: Mirror Drawing

• @rt Room www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/ 

• Island Worlds by Crizmac Art and Cultural Education Materials

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