What a fun read! Anna goes on a trip to the art museum with her mom and finds it very difficult to follow all of the rules of the museum. Every move she makes seems to get her in trouble and she's just too distracted from paying attention. Right when she's had enough, one last curious ask let's her behind the scenes and she gains a new appreciation for art. Wonderfully illustrated and included are great works of art, some more famous than others. There's a great appendix of art at the end of the book.

My kids could definitely empathize with Anna and I could with her mom, especially about the no touching part. My kids enjoyed recognizing art and learning about new paintings.

Even as an adult some museums can be a bit blah and boring, and as a kid in a museum, I know that there were times I wanted to doze off. In this book Anna is a young girl at an art museum and she is just trying to get through her time there. She is bored and doesn't know about any museum rules, so she keeps getting in trouble.

This is a wonderfully illustrated children's book that incorporates pieces of art throughout. There are early Japanese pieces, Monet, Degas and The Scream by Edvard Munch on the walls of the museum. The end of the book even gives you the pieces names, dates and artists as well as where they are housed in their real world museums.

The book is meant to be a teaching tool, learning about the museum rules and etiquette but also about learning to really appreciate what art has to offer. I love art and museums, to be surrounded by all that talent and different perspectives and I think this will be a fun book to share with your youngster.

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Oh, could I relate to this book from a parents point of view! I'm not sure very small children should even be allowed in art museums! Just a heads up....
Every parent should have to read this story. It's very good! And I enjoyed the illustrations!

Anna and her mother are visiting an art museum and Anna is extremely BORED. Every time she tries to entertain herself the museum attendant or her mom stop her, until she is introduced to a room where artists are working to restore art. The magic of art is revealed to Anna and it follows her throughout the rest of the museum and outside. This book introduces some great art pieces and artists to kids, this is a must read picture book before a trip to an art museum.

This might be the most realistic child-visits-the-museum story I’ve read.

I adored how Anna’s trying-to-figure-out-what-to-do was the central story while the various pieces of famous art formed the backdrop.

It seemed to me there were three styles of art layered on each page, and I couldn’t decide if that was too busy - photography, graphic rendering, and what looks like hand-drawn and painted people.

The main “gimmick” of the book (if that is a fair word to use) is the inclusion of identifiable works of art (a list of everything— with pictures, artist and medium — is included in the back, which is excellent). In the main book, these appear as high-quality photographs, set into a (computer?) rendered background of shaded walls, doorways and columns.

Anna and her mother (and the sainted museum attendant) play out their drama on this stage, drawn in a style that reminded me of the rough, energetic lines of the Calvin and Hobbes cartoons.

The story itself seems well-suited for the suggested purpose of introducing young children to the concept of an art museum and what will be expected of a child when she visits. It seems to be the sort of story a child would sit through to spend time with a caregiver, but maybe less-likely to choose for themselves.

Perhaps not-unlike a museum visit...

(I was provided a digital copy by the publisher through Net Galley in order to review it.)

This was a cute picture book for young children. I read it to my 4 and 6 year old daughters. My 4 year old loved looking at the pictures in the book. I love that it is all real art that children can find in a museum.

ARC Copy...highly suggestible as a prelude-book for little ones on their first trip to the museum or art gallery.

Cute book! I think all caregivers and children that have ever been to a museum can relate to this. I know I certainly can. I like that it ended with a positive note and even after being told no, no, no, Anna was excited to go back again.

Anna's mother takes her to the art museum, but Anna is bored and finds herself getting into trouble with the attendant. She finds a half open door that says No Entry, but the man says he can see if it is ok for her to go inside. What she sees chances how she feels about the museum and the art. Author has included notes about the famous artwork featured in the book.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I aimed a little too high for my daughter with this pick. She is still a bit too young for it... regardless, I read it to her this afternoon. Some of the bright colors caught her attention but mostly she didn't have a reaction. It was a cute, fun book that I think she'll enjoy when she's older. I really like that the book featured actual paintings/other artwork throughout. The best part was that there was information about each piece in a glossary at the end of the book. My rating for Anna At The Art Museum is actually a little closer to a 3.5🌟

An adorable read out loud for families. A little girl experiences an art museum for the first time. After learning all the things she can't do, she discovers that magic exists beneath layers of dirt and paint. Wonderful illustrations feature images of real paintings. The endpages give extra information about the paintings for parents or older kids to enjoy.

In ANNA AT THE ART MUSEUM, little Anna is displeased to be at the museum with her Mom. She’s bored by the rules and the quiet and the sheer stuffiness, until a kindly guard admits her to a secret room where art restoration is happening. There, she discovers a painting of a girl just as grumpy as she ... and that changes everything, as she learns that “art imitates life.” This fun book is chock full of representations of paintings from many world-class galleries, providing a fine entree for a child into the world of art.

Grateful to Annick Press Ltd. and NetGalley for the ARC; opinions are mine alone.

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Anna and her mom visit the art museum and she is beyond bored with all the rules and boring pictures. That is... until she realizes that art really can reflect the real world.
I absolutely love the illustration style in this book. It was very cool to see real pieces of art scaled down and fit into the frames on the page, and I appreciated that there was an art guide in the back. This would be a fun book to read at the beginning of the school year for an art teacher.

Delightful story for children of all ages. Teaches a valuable lesson throughout the story. Love that at the of the book it contains true, factual information about many of the art included in the story.

This was a super cute book! I loved how great they drew everything even down to having the real pictures of artwork! I thought that was awesome esp when the little kids don't really know much about artwork - this can at least introduce them to it. The writing style was really simple but with a book like this that is great. Of course; again the pictures and words didn't really match up on ebook form but I am sure it was only because it was an ebook. Still, this is a great story for kids as well as some follow up conversations to do with art and everything in that world.

Anna at the Art Museum is written by Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert, as well as illustrated by Lil Crump.

Anna is very bored during her visit to an art gallery with her mother, so Anna decides to entertain herself. However, she's constantly reprimanded by her mother or by the art attendant...until something changed and the artwork figuratively seem different to Anna.

According to the About the Art section, this art museum is "filled with a wide range of art by artists from many different eras and countries," yet it seems that most of the artwork is currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The featured artworks include the following artists: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Georges Seurat, Edvard Munch, Claude Monet, Diego Rivera, Paul Cézanne, Mary Cassatt, William H. Johnson, Edgar Degas, etc.

Anna at the Art Museum contains an entertaining story amid lovely works of art, and it's an ideal book to prepare children for their first visit to an art museum. This enjoyable easy-to-read picture book is geared toward young children, particularly preschoolers to second graders.


Note: I received this book from NetGalley, which is a program designed for bloggers to write book reviews in exchange for books, yet the opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Have you ever tried to visit an art museum with a child? Were you ever a child who found art museums to be boring? Would you like to find your own adventures in a museum, even if they create some chaos? If any of these could be true, read this picture book to a child in your life. As an extra bonus, there are reproductions of famous artworks in the story with a chance to learn more about them and the artists. A clever book and one that is well executed with enticing illustrations.

Anna at the Art Museum by Hazel Hutchins & Gail Herbert is marvelous. Any children's book about art makes me open its pages and this one did not disappoint!

Telling the sweet little story of the highs and lows of Anna's visit with her mother to the art museum, Hutchins and Herbet have brought to life the very true happenings of a child's experience at such a place. Boredom, rules, and a busy museum attendant all seem to ruin Anna's visit. Or do they?

The story is genuine and is beautifully enhanced by illustrations with actual images of real pieces of art scattered throughout the exhibits. In the "About the Art" section at the back of the book, each work of art that is seen in the earlier pages is cited, making this a fun "seek and find" book as well to learn more and extend the book through activity.

While school boards may be decreasing the Arts in the classroom, Hutchins & Herbert give a simple trip to an art museum a life of it's own. Anna finds the magic in the art and appreciates it for the beauty and wonder each piece is.

Readers, too, can visit this book-size art museum and grow a love and appreciation for the Arts, both old and new, in their own homes or their library and would make a great addition to bookshelves. Educators could easily base single artists or an art era study by using this book as a jumping off point for further study.

Very cute, clever book about Anna, who is bored, at the unnamed art museum, because she can't do anything but look. She can't touch, she can't run, she can't shout, she can't even eat.

What I like, is how her actions are reflected in the pictures that she is near by. Very clever.

Cute picture book to introduce kids into art work from around the world.

The only qualm I have with this, is that they jumped around museums to show the artwork they wanted to show. The main one was the New York Met. I think they could have worked with just that one, instead of jumping to all the other museums.

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Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

Anna at the Art Museum shows a young child brought to the art museum by her mother. She is bored, and when she does show an interest in something, she gets disdainful looks or chastisement from the nearby guard (when touching a painting, for instance, or speaking at a loud volume when roaring at a ceramic lion).

Fortunately, though, Anna gets an opportunity to be drawn into the art world when she finds a partially open door: "When a door is half open, it is very hard not to wonder what lies on the other side." She is invited to visit the art restoration room and finds a painting of a bored girl that she connects with. The rest of the visit is transformed as she is drawn to the art in a new way.

This would be a perfect introduction to art museums to read with a child, especially if he or she needs to be prepared for the experience. Conversations about how to engage and what pieces are of interest could be had.

This was an amusing read to me, having recently taken my four- and seven-year-old daughters to their first art museum. Unlike Anna, they were both quite engaged from the beginning, but I resonated with keeping a sharp eye on them, making sure they didn't touch or sit where they weren't supposed to (and the speed at which they can cover a room -- whew!).

Another item of note: I appreciated the diverse cast of characters. Representation matters, so it's a treat to have a book with characters that look like America looks, especially on an ordinary topic that has nothing to do with race or Civil Rights.

Throughout the pages, you will notice familiar works of art in the background; at the close of the book, the artwork is again shown in thumbnail size where further details are given.

I received a free digital ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.