Vincent's Starry Night by Michael Bird

Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories: A Children's History of Art
by Michael Bird

Ultra-excited about my new Art History book!

I'm always looking for resources to help me teach using stories -- as is the Waldorf way -- and Art History is my new favorite subject to teach. This story collection was very highly recommended to me by my friend Sarah. I've been waiting and waiting for it to arrive, and now I get to make a list! Yippee! Here are ALL the artists and time periods included in this book:

Caves to Civilisations (40,000 - 20 BCE)

Lion Man: The First Artists

Animal Magic: The Cave Painters

Picture Stories: Ancient Painters, Carvers and Scribes

Seeing It My Way: Akhenaten's Artists

Life Goes On: Tutankhamun's Tomb

Travellers' Tales: Kleitias the Vase Painter

Big Ideas: Phidias and the Parthenon

The Warrior Factory: Qin Shi Huang's Craftsmen

A Tall Order: The Sculptor and the Emperor

Enjoy the View: A Roman Painter

Sacred Places (800 - 1425)

Eye to Eye: A Mosaic Maker in Saint Sophia

The Calligrapher's Dream: Ibn al-Bawwab

Mountain Man: Fan Kuan

Floating City: The Builders of Angkor Wat

Light Fantastic: The Stained-Glass Makers of Chartres

Real-Life Stories: Giotto

All Sides of Life: Medieval Scribes and Illuminators

Head People: The Bronze-Casters of Ife

Snow Angels: Andrei Rublev

Great Ambitions (1425 - 1550)

Discovering the Future: Donatello

The Smallest Detail: Jan van Eyck

Fly to the Sun: The Aztecs

Under the Skin: Leonardo da Vinci

Work Hard, Be Famous: Albrecht Dürer

Stone into Statue: Michelangelo

The Art of Philosophy: Raphael

The Night Is Young: Titian

Life Stories (1550 - 1750)

Cold Comfort: Pieter Breugel

King of the Cheetahs: Basawan and Dharm Das

Light Supper: Caravaggio

The Flower Girl: Rembrandt

Painting Is Me: Artemisia Gentileschi

Good Morning!: Diego Velázquez

Imagine Being There: Claude Lorrain

The Longer You Look: Johannes Vermeer

House of Cards: Jean-Siméon Chardin

Revolution! (1750 - 1860)

The Storm and the Calm: Jacques-Louis David

No Heroes: Francisco Goya

Rock and Stores and Trees: Caspart David Friedrich

Under the Wave: Katsushika Hokusai

Artistic Chemistry: William Henry Fox Talbot

I'll Show You!: Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Plan of Campaign: Gustave Courbet

Worth Every Cent: Frederic Edwin Church

Seeing It Differently (1860 - 1900)

Cradle of Art: Berthe Morisot

The Great Outdoors: Claude Monet

Split-Second Timing: Eadweard Muybridge

What Is Colour Made Of?: Georges Seurat

Vincent's Starry Night: Vincent van Gogh

In Her Hands: Camille Claudel

It All Fits Together: Paul Cézanne

War and Peace (1900 - 1950)

Cut and Paste: Georges Braque

Happy Birthday!: Marc Chagall

Spinning a Story: Marcel Duchamp

Comrades!: Varvara Stepanova

Circles of Life: Vasily Kandinsky

The Girl Between Worlds: Frida Kahlo

Sea of Dreams: Joan Miró

The Lie that Tells the Truth: Pablo Picasso

Pebbles and Bombs: Henry Moore

It's All Rubbish!: Kurt Schwitters

Where It's At (1950-2014)

Straight from the Can: Jackson Pollock

In the Blue Morning: Henri Matisse

What Happened Here?: Anselm Kiefer

My Dreaming: Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Come Inside: Louise Bourgeois

Bottletop Magic: El Anatsui

Sowing Seeds: Al Weiwei

In the back there are bonuses: Map of the World, Timeline, Glossary, List of Artworks (each chapter includes a reproduction of one work), and Index.

These "Table of Contents" posts really help me because when I go to do my lesson planning I can just use the SEARCH box to see what resources I already have for a topic. I hope other people find them helpful as well!

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