Field Trip! Jack in Search of Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Art museums and libraries are two of my favorite kinds of places, and I am so lucky to live only two blocks from one of each, and only a little further away from more. The Detroit Institute of Arts provides a perfect backdrop for tonight’s story, about a bear who goes in search of Art at an art museum. The illustrations of the museum combine both drawing and actual works from a different museum, the Delaware Art Museum, which makes the book itself almost like a visit to an art museum.

A very special thank you goes to the Detroit Institute of Arts for giving me permission to film in the museum and for being a fantastic cultural presence in my neighborhood and region. You can learn more about them at DIA.org.

Have you ever been to an art museum? What did you see there? Tell me in the comments!

Want to read Jack in Search of Art on your own? You can borrow it from your library or buy it online from an independent bookseller here.  


Sparkle Dreams!
Valerie

Sugar Would Not Eat It, by Emily Jenkins and Giselle Potter

We all have trouble eating our food sometimes, but Sugar the Cat seems to have a little more trouble than most of us would if we were handed a slice of chocolate cake and told to eat it. I know that I would have no problem devouring a whole slice, and maybe even asking for more, but Sugar has the opposite problem.  No matter how hard Leo and his friends try, she just won’t eat! How will they get her to eat?

What kinds of things do your parents tell you when you won’t eat your food? Do they tell you the same things Leo’s friends told Sugar, or do they try something else? Tell me!

Sparkle Dreams!

Valerie

Want to read Sugar Would Not Eat It on your own? You can borrow it from your local library, or buy it online from an independent bookseller here.