Are children more sophisticated critics than we thought? This book challenges accepted ideas of children's ability to distinguish fiction and reality, working with two children as they explore their favourite books.

This is a school textbook intended for the use of teachers with their classes when they wish to give a lesson to children who are looking for the stories in paintings by famous masters. Miss Carpenter is an expert in this field and says her book will save teachers the effort of studying each painter.

This book offers information on the photographs. Every parent and educator wants to read and share this book with their children. Based on the author's aim to utilize this book in classroom teachings, it may be used for a regular sketching period of twenty to thirty minutes, and was effectively delivered at that time. However, the most enjoyable method to utilize the books is as an additional reader, enabling each kid to individually explore the illustrations and read the narrative.

"Art supervisors in the public schools assign picture-study work in each grade, recommending the study of certain pictures by well-known masters. As Supervisor of Drawing I found that the children enjoyed this work but that the teachers felt incompetent to conduct the lessons as they lacked time to look up the subject and to gather adequate material. Recourse to a great many books was necessary and often while much information could usually be found about the artist, very little was available about his pictures. Hence I began collecting information about the pictures and preparing the lessons for the teachers just as I would give them myself to pupils of their grade. My plan does not include many pictures during the year, as this is to be only a part of the art work and is not intended to take the place of drawing. The lessons in this grade are planned for the usual drawing period of from twenty to thirty minutes, and have been given in that time successfully. However, the most satisfactory way of using the books is as supplementary readers, thus permitting each child to study the pictures and read the stories himself."--Preface