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Literature Based Art and Music.


LITERATURE BASED ART AND MUSIC. Mildred Knight Laughlin and Terri Parker Street. Phoenix, AZ: Onyx onyx (ŏn`ĭks), variety of cryptocrystalline quartz, differing from agate only in that the bands of which it is composed are parallel and regular.  Press. Softcover soft·cov·er  
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Not bound between hard covers: softcover books; a softcover edition. 
, 156 pp., $29.95.

This provocative and timely publication illustrates how children's books can be integrated into kindergarten through fifth grade art and music lessons, or vice-versa. The authors have done a masterful job of reviewing children's literature children's literature, writing whose primary audience is children.

See also children's book illustration. The Beginnings of Children's Literature


The earliest of what came to be regarded as children's literature was first meant for adults.
 for its relevance to art and music curricula. They consider general patterns of instruction in these areas, the developmental needs of young children, and suggest units of study and lesson ideas that integrate literature and the arts. If ever a book addressed ways and means WAYS AND MEANS. In legislative assemblies there is usually appointed a committee whose duties are to inquire into, and propose to the house, the ways and means to be adopted to raise funds for the use of the government. This body is called the committee of ways and means.  for integrating art into the general elementary curriculum, this is it. This book is worth the price for the recommendations and commentary about important and timeless children's books alone! It is a must for any administrator's, curriculum specialist's, art teacher's or elementary teacher's reference shelf.
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Date:May 1, 1993
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