Creativity and the Arts with Young Children
My overall impression of the text is that it is well-written covering the arts, not just the visual arts, but all of the arts.The greatest strengths of this text are: the wonderful activities that are included  the open-ended art activities. It is very difficult to find open-ended art activities  the clarity with which the author speaks  uses language that students relate to easily  this book is just the right length so that I can bundle it with another book and the cost is kept to a minimum for the students.Overall, I like this book. The content is interesting and presented in a very usable way. I am interested enough to look deeper into each chapter and find out what content is described and how the authors view each topic, such as play or creativity.This book appears to be a very nice undergraduate text. It is well organized, and provides books, childrens literature, and web sites that are helpful at the end of each chapter  some of the photographs are wonderful.