Author(s): Catherine DE DUVE

Activity Books

Color Zen, learn as you colour. Learn while relaxing! A new approach to didactical art therapy. Children are drawn into pictures as they colour them in themselves! They have fun and really get to know the art, while also learning new words and being asked to spot new things. * Here are the gardens of the famous painter Claude Monet * Help the artist to draw up the plans for his garden * Which flowers should he plant? * Roses, nasturtiums, irises, water-lilies, cosmos . . . * Prune the wisteria on the Japanese bridge. * Meditate on the beauty of the water-lilies * What tools does the gardener use? * Discover the animals along the pathways * Cats, snails, hedgehogs, dragonflies, birds . . . * Put the colours back into nature AGES: 3 plus AUTHOR: Catherine de Duve is an art historian and painter who worked at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. She designed her first interactive work for children in 1999, a review of James Ensor. She went on as an editor and author to pursue children's art publishing in 2000. Catherine de Duve has written more than thirty books of children's art for Kate'Art Editions, Alice Edition (Brussels), Hatier (Paris) and The Birdcage (USA).