Raczka, C. (2008). Artful reading. Minneapolis, MN: Millbrook Press. ISBN: 978-0-825-6754-7.

Annotation – Take a journey about where, when, how, what, and why to read in this book using famous paintings that have people with books.

Media – various

Rating – 3 quality of text and 5 quality of illustration/4 for popularity

Curricular Connection – Raczka uses world art works to rejoice in books and reading. For upper elementary students who have the time to study paintings, this book has numerous possibilities for curricular connections: recreating a portion of a selected artwork; studying the artist who created the selected painting; writing one’s own poetry or prose about books and reading; exploring other books by the author to find similarities in the text or artworks.

Nancy