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What Are You Looking At?

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Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level

This fascinating book, written in conjunction with the London National Portrait Gallery, examines what portraits are and what they can tell you about the sitter (and the artist) through examining some of the world's greatest portraits.

  • Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.
  • Text type - Information book
  • There is a useful glossary and index of pictures on pages 44-45 and a quiz on page 47, where readers have to guess the portrait from a given detail.
  • Curriculum links - Art and design: the roles and purposes of artists, craftspeople and designers; History: Victorian Britain.
  • This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780007230914
Publication date: 4th January 2007
Author: Clare Gittings, National Portrait Gallery Great Britain
Publisher: Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 48 pages
Series: Collins Big Cat. Emerald, Band 15
Genres: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Information resources
Reading Scheme
History
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists