The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Verde, Susan

The Museum

32 pp. | Abrams | March, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4197-0594-6 $16.95

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds. An awe-struck girl frolics through an art museum reacting vigorously to famous works: she stands on tippy-toes before a Degas ballerina, is frightened by Munch's The Scream, and pauses to "analyze / the whos and whats and wheres and whys" while staring at Rodin's sculpture The Thinker. In her peppy rhymes, Verde embodies art's inspirational properties; Reynolds's sprightly illustrations tastefully venerate each (unnamed) artist.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen