Books to Grow Up

The children must get in touch with Art, according to Dewey, passing through experience. This book is a sort of primer: it faces the world of Art through key words to understand and share the sense of Art’s most important expressions. Many words and ideas linked to the world of the arts are combined with practical activities to do with children. It is a “summa” of Artebambini’s philosophy.

The children must get in touch with Art, according to Dewey, passing through experience. This book is a sort of primer: it faces the world of Art through key words to understand and share the sense of Art’s most important expressions. Many words and ideas linked to the world of the arts are combined with practical activities to do with children. It is a “summa” of Artebambini’s philosophy.

"What is an ""artoteca""? How does it works? Is there one in Italy? Can art be borrowed? The answers are in this book: it collects ideas and experiences of a library that has already started a service like that, which is still quite unknown but full of important and innovation. Realized in partnership with the Municipality of Cavriago and the Multiplo - Cavriago's Cultural Centre".

The illustrations are small cardboard installations, the text is full of suggestions: it is an artistic game through objects, colours and materials. This book invites us to consider the school from different and original points of view, in order to live that place as an adventure, as a box full of emotions, as a chance to build links.

Bruno Munari used to call his graphic discoveries “journeys through unexplored territories”; Coca Frigerio and Alberto Cerchi follow this way and suggest techniques and workshops to play with our historic cities and to invent our future ones: collage, photography, textures, materials, colours, models, structures…

Appena nati abbiamo bisogno di latte, di carezze, di sonno, di cure di giochi, di immagini, di suoni e di... parole. In questo DADAlbum dedicato a Rodari la parola ha un gusto tutto particolare: è il cibo prelibato da lasciarsi rigirare in testa, pura delizia da assaporare pronunciandola, trastullo per pensieri peregrini, shuttle per mondi sconosciuti, chiave segreta per tesori nascosti, richiamo di voci antiche, canto di genti lontane, poesia del quotidiano. È una gentile e fantastica rivoluzione.

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This book is a photography workshop for high school students. It starts from a self-portrait and evolves as engine for the creation of placards and new messages.

The five senses are a special open door to art and the whole world: they are the key to discovery. In this book there are many different suggestions and activity to stimulate the five senses.

A guide to build books with paper and other materials. 25 techniques to cut, fold and paste to create different types of books.

A natural landscape is a diary made of images and pictures, a garden for our memory. Nature is always recurring in its colours, shapes and models: we need to enter this cycle to draw our personal and inner landscape.

Contemporary art, the creative instinct of children and many educational experiences are the main characters of this book. All the activities have something in common: an active research with the aim of educate children cheerfully to beauty, from their first years of life. Everything starts from Mirò and his art, from his colours to his unique and poetic paintings.

In a constantly changing Europe how can we transmit to children the cultural heritage, an immense deposit of history and starting points? The strategies presented in this book, coming from virtuous examples of didactic methods and of specific training, try to open a path on which it is possible to continue with success.

This book follows Nature during the season, taking note of all its transformations. It invites the reader to watch the world around us with the eyes of an artist, using all the senses. There are suggestions, artworks and workshops: it is an educational instrument for schools and environmental education centres.

Paper is an essential tool to create every kind of activities. Let’s use it to build something in 3D! From the appreciated author of My Own Colour, My Hand and Just Like Me, a brand new step-by-step book to build amazing paper sculptures to play with!

Is it worth throwing a box away when it can become a cat, an illustration, a cartoon, a sculpture, a dinosaur or an artwork? Fabrizio Silei, whose style is strictly bound to this material, suggests many workshops for children, parents and teachers. Children can use amusing and simple techniques to realize pop-ups, cardboard dinosaurs and images on the move, but always recycling this valuable material.

Osvaldo (who has the same name of Licini, an Italian painter of the last century) talks with the Moon, Amalassunta. She helps him understand that our thoughts and identity emerge when we face what is outside us: other people, objects and, why not, the Moon herself. A new book series, Philosophart, to talk about philosophy through images

A new book series, Philosophart, to talk about philosophy through images

More than adults, children are the ones who can truly travel to discover the world, preserving their spontaneity, hanging between the everyday world and the imagined worlds, playing while doing philosophy. A book with essays by experts in practical activities and workshops, with just one common denominator: the possibility, rather the necessity, to do philosophy with children.

Italy is full of monuments: temples, theatres, towers, castles, villas, bridges, gardens, churches and realms; nowadays they are cultural statements and meeting places. This game with monuments can become a multidisciplinary workshop.

Portraits are always mesmerizing: they make questions emerge, about their painter but mostly about the people they are representing, as we try to guess their dreams and thoughts.

Priscilla and Gurdulù are Gek Tessaro’s hands: they always draw and invite the illustrator to watch the world from a different point of view. All his illustrations come from this gaze of the hands, from this meticulous observation.

This is a book full of ideas and suggestions to play with different sounds: every sound coming from the voice, from an instrument or by any type of tool can be used, because sounds are everywhere and we just have to listen carefully.

Do you want to leave and explore the world of objects, trying to watch them from new and unusual points of view? In this book there are tales, workshops and suggestions inspired by some of the most important artists of our time.

Ladies and gentlemen, here’s some takeaway art just for you! In this book you’ll find workshops on some of the greatest artists of modern and contemporary art… but with a twist: we’ll always start working from a pizza box!

We are so not used to know some great artists… just because they were women! Yet, some of their ideas are gorgeous and deserve some more attention: that’ why, after the great success of “Takeaway Art”, Raffaella Castagna suggests some activities on them… Always by using our loyal pizza boxes!

Quoting the great artist Paul Klee, this book will go back to the basis of drawing, suggesting some interesting activities to find a new connection between our thoughts and the pencil, establishing a new relationship with the pleasure of drawing.

If you play putting your toys in dedicated and funny locations, you will obtain strange and original effects. This visual strategy leads the authors and the reader through artworks, famous literary texts and creative thoughts.

Tintinnabula is a hybrid place: here the museum becomes a place where it is possible to play and, on the other hand, the art of playing shows itself. Old-fashioned toys come to a second life and others can be created using poor and recycled materials. In this book, images and text lead us through the experiences made by the Centro Gioco Natura Creatività “La Lucertola” in Ravenna.

This book was inspired by a workshop with the children of an elementary school in Torino. It will let the children travel through emotions, feelings, colours, memory and awareness of their own body, both individually and working in a group.

This book is an urban adventure, an invite to discover and explore the neighbourhood and the city. These adventures are combined with pictures and photos, with feelings and sensations, to offer a new point of view.

With water you can create extraordinary sounds. This book wants to encourage children and adults to play with water, using it like an instrument full of communicative possibilities.

What is this book about? It deals with the wish (sometimes it comes early, sometimes lately) of writing, of putting on a page words and emotions. It pretends to be an essay but maintains its soft literary language.