Come Look With Me: Exploring Native American Art With Children

Come Look With Me Art Books

by Stephanie Salomon

Introduces Native American art to children with a series of twelve color images and questions designed to help them understand what they are seeing

Genres: Art, Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Lisa]

My kids enjoyed this, but I really wish they had included some examples of modern Native American art. The older things in here are cool but it makes it seem a bit like Native Americans are basically only in museums. I would have loved to see one or two examples of modern Native painters or sculpters.

[Debra]

This has been my favorite in this series so far. Compared to the others I had previewed so far, this one has the largest sized depictions of the art, which is much more appealing to children. I loved that the author started with the horse mask. I would ask the question, Who do you think would wear this mark? followed by the author's questions "what clues tell you this mask is for a horse?

The Kachina dolls are blown up to a size that you can really enjoy the detail. I am sure that my budding artist will want to try to make one. And that will let us look for and collect the items that we need. The questions for the "Dream or Vision of Himself changed to a destroyer" are very good, and that Black Hawk imagined himself of a mythical creature flying thru the air.

The rest of the book is just as stunning and appealing. I love that the author chose such a variety of objects.

Note: Online photos of Black Hawk's work made in a account ledger book with colored pencil and ink came be found with an online search.

[Chanchal Jadhav]

Best

[Kris]

This has excellent photography and explanations, as well as questions to explore. I would have liked to see more current examples, but this is a nice start.

[Sally]

Used this with the K12 art/history curriculum.

[Meghan]

Reading this in art class, for school.