Animals in Art

A new addition to the series that Serena Williams calls "a fun way to inspire children’s imagination and creativity!"

The Peninsula Hotel's Children's Book Club Inaugural Book Selection

Learn the alphabet through animals and fine art!

Spark your child’s creativity and curiosity with this delightfully curated alphabet book featuring some of the world’s most popular animals and iconic paintings.

In this collection, your child will discover artwork by Vincent van Gogh, Winslow Homer, Clara Peeters, and many others. Learn about butterflies in Odilon Redon's Butterflies, purr like kittens while examining Henriette Ronner-Knip's The Cat at Play, and discuss the colors used in Franz Marc's Blue Horse I.

With a fun rhyming scheme and large, colorful text, Animals in Art will inspire your budding art lovers as they learn the about the alphabet, animals, and new words by finding objects in paintings. Then, as your child grows, you can read the playful poems aloud together and answer the interactive questions that accompany each painting.