Representations of Art and Art Museums in Childrens Picture BooksAuthor(s): Perry Nodelman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts\nISBN-13: 9781350442313, 978-1350442313\nSynopsis\nWhat happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and practices of publishing for children?\n\nThis study explores how over three hundred childrens picture books, most of them published in the last three decades in English, introduce children to art and art museums. It considers how the books emerge from and relate to a range of theories and assumptions about childhood and childhood development, childrens literature and culture, illustration, visual art, museology, and art education. \n\nAs well as examining how these theories and assumptions influence what picture books teach young readers about visiting museums and about how to look at and think about art, it examines which .