These are my and daughter’s favorite books about art. While I have provided the age range for each title, I believe you can start introducing all of these books very early as they have beautiful illustrations and often simple and rhyming texts. You can find them in your local library or you could request them via library exchange program if your library doesn’t have them. Of course, you can also purchase them. Over the years we purchased quite an art library in our house but its money well spent as we keep coming back to these books.
Title |
Author |
Age |
| Touch the Art Series: Make Van Gough’s Bed, Pop Warhol’s Top, Catch Picasso’s Rooster, Brush Mona Lisa’s Hair, Feed Matisse Fish, Tickle Tut’s Toes | Julie Appel | baby/toddler and up |
| Andy Warhol’s Colors | Susan Goldman Rubin | baby/toddler and up |
| Mini Masters Series: Painting with Picasso, Quite Time with Cassatt, In the Garden with Van Gogh, Sharing with Renoir, Sunday with Seurat, On an Island with Gauguin, Dreaming with Rousseau | Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober | baby/toddler and up |
| Noisy Paint Box | Barb Rosenstock | preschooler and up |
| Magritte’s Imagination | Susan Goldman Rubin | toddler and up |
| Matisse Dance for Joy | Susan Goldman Rubin | toddler and up |
| Counting with Wayne Thiebaud | Susan Goldman Rubin | toddler and up |
| Jacob Lawrence in the City | Susan Goldman Rubin | toddler and up |
| In the Garden with Van Gogh | Julie Merberg | toddler and up |
| Dancing with Degas | Julie Merberg | toddler and up |
| Andy Warhol So Many Stars | Mudpuppy | toddler and up |
| A is for Andy | Mudpuppy | toddler and up |
| Andy Warhol Happy Bug Day | Mudpuppy | toddler and up |
| Art for Baby | Various | baby/toddler and up |
| Art from the Start Series: How is Mona Lisa Feeling, Mama, Baby and Other First Words, Animals in Art | Julie Merberg | toddler and up |
| Pop Art Baby | Mudpuppy | toddler and up |
| Delicious: The Art and Life of Wayne Thiebaud | Susan Goldman Rubin | preschooler and up |
| Henri’s Scissors | Jeanette Winter | preschooler and up |
| Vincent’s Colors | Metropolitan Museum of Art | preschooler and up |
| Van Gogh and the Sunflowers | Anholt’s Artists Books for Children | preschooler and up |
| The Magical Garden of Claude Monet | Anholt’s Artists Books for Children | preschooler and up |
| Action Jackson | Jan Greenberg | preschooler and up |
| Camille and the Sunflowers | Anholt’s Artists Books for Children | preschooler and up |
| Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail | Anholt’s Artists Books for Children | preschooler and up |
| Matisse’s Garden | Samantha Friedman | preschooler and up |
| Through Georgia’s Eyes | Rachel Victoria Rodriguez | preschooler and up |
| My Name is Georgia | Jeanette Winter | preschooler and up |
| The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau | Michelle Markel | preschooler and up |
| Degas and the Little Dancer | Anholt’s Artists Books for Children | preschooler and up |
| Uncle Andy’s: A Faabbbulous Visit with Andy Warhol | James Warhola | preschooler and up |
| Getting the know the world’s greatest artists series | Mike Venezia | kindergardner and up |
| Journey on a Cloud: A Children’s Book Inspired by Marc Chagall | Veronique Massenot | kindergartner and up |
| Pigasso and Mootisse | Nina Laden | preschooler and up |
| The Dot | Peter H. Reynolds | preschooler and up |
| The Beautiful Oops | Barney Saltzberg | toddler and up |
| Art | Patrick McDonnell | toddler and up |
| Bob Raczka Art Adventure Series | Bob Raczka | kindergartner and up |
| There are No Animals in this Book Only Feelings | Chani Sanchez | toddler and up |