What better way to establish a love for art in a child than to use it to teach them basic concepts and their ABCs? Here's a collection of books to choose from.
1. Black and White Rabbit's ABC by Alan Baker
An ABC with delightful illustrations that features a black-and-white rabbit and a storyline based on painting.
2. White Rabbit's Color Book by Alan Baker
A companion book to the rabbit ABC, this one sees a white rabbit discovering basic colour mixing by falling into pots of paint of various colours.3. Roy Lichtenstein's ABC
Each spread in this book contains a letter of the alphabet and a relevant painting by the Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. If you're a Lichtenstein fan, you may not want to share it!4. Museum ABC
An ABC book compiled by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each letter of the alphabet is illustrated with four pieces of art from the museum. Each spread is laid out the same: the text is on the left-hand page and the right-hand page is divided into four to contain the pictures.5. I Spy: An Alphabet in Art
Can you find "something beginning with..." in each of the 26 paintings? Such as the apple in Magritte's Son of Man? Compiled by Lucy Micklethwait.6. A Child's Book of Art: Great Pictures First Words
A large format, "first word" book in which 100 works of art are used to introduce 30 topics, such as family, pets, seasons, shapes, opposites, and faces. Compiled by Lucy Micklethwait.7. A Child's Book of Play in Art
Another large-format compilation by Lucy Micklethwait, this time the paintings are arranged around themes that allow children to imagine and play, such as dancing with Degas's ballerinas or living in a castle.