Claude Monet lived in the country, but when the trains rumbled by, his 9-year old son, Jean would get all excited. While the critics did not seem to understand his "impressionist" paintings and his interest in changing light in the natural world, he decided that perhaps they would understand if he painted city scenes and something as modern as a train. This was at a time when painting was generally done in the studio, not out of doors. This well told story is based on true events and adds another layer of pleasure and understanding to the famous Gare Saint-Lazare paintings.

Age: Early School Years, Later School Years. Award Year: 2010. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.

Using 19 reproductions from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, this is an "I Spy" kind of game that encourages kids to notice details in works of art. With paintings from Egyptian to 20th-century collections, this is an entertaining way to help children look more closely as they experience art in books or museums. Still stop rated, A Book of Artrageous Projects PLATINUM AWARD '01 (editors of Klutz and Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Age: Early School Years, Later School Years. Award Year: 2003. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.

A guided tour that examines a famous painting, giving young readers an introduction to several big ideas about how one may look at the details and story the painting tells. It also examines how the artist created his masterpiece with dozens of smaller studies. For younger art lovers, see Babar's Museum of Art (by Laurent de Brunhoff, $16.95) PLATINUM AWARD '04. 7 & up.

Age: Early School Years, Later School Years. Award Year: 2005. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.