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About the author
Mike Barfield has been wild about animals from an early age. His love of nature took him to King’s College London where he gained a first class honours degree in botany and zoology. After a career in comedy writing for TV and radio, he turned to creating award-winning non-fiction for children built on his love of science and finding things out. He is the winner of the Blue Peter Children’s Book Award 2021 in the ‘Best Book with Facts’ category, and has also been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, the Association for Science Education Children’s Book Prize (twice) and the De Bary Award for Outstanding Children’s Science Books (twice).
His website can be found at www.mikebarfield.co.uk.
Summary
Get ready to cut, stick, colour and create in this art-packed activity extravaganza. Take a trip through the history of famous artworks and their creators in Pop Out Art, the perfect title for kids with a taste for the creative.
Packed with information about famous works of art, alongside imaginative activities to help create mini-masterpieces, kids can make Warhol-inspired pop art stencils, become perspective detectives with Hogarth, take a trip into the surreal world of Marcel Duchamp, and make their very own models of Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso. As well, learn about the mysterious sculptures on Easter Island and some of the earliest cave art created by humans.
Pop Out Art contains a dozen press-out projects, as well as pages to doodle, design and draw on, inspirational activities and fun and fascinating facts.
Foreword
Get ready to cut, stick, colour and create in this art-packed activity extravaganza. Take a trip through the history of famous artworks and their creators in Pop Out Art, the perfect title for kids with a taste for the creative.
