Listen to podcasts about some of the paintings in your book
Scroll down and select a painting then click on the play button or scroll down to find out more.

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Websites to visit

Highlights of The National Gallery, London
Browse 30 paintings, many of which feature in your book.

An A to Z of artists and their works
Find out about artists and their works featured at the National Gallery.

Search for more paintings by subject or theme

Take a tour of The National Gallery and see paintings in your book
Use the zoom tools to take a closer look at "Irises", or to explore the gallery click on "Floorplans" or "Paintings".

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About this book

Colouring books
Art colouring and sticker book

Discover some of the best-loved paintings in The National Gallery in this fabulous activity book, from Redon’s “Ophelia Among the Flowers” to Monet’s “Irises”. Children will love to colour angels’ wings in “The Wilton Diptych”, find a matching sticker for Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, draw their own artwork and add over 100 stickers to the pages. The content of this book is also available as The Art Sticker Book and The Art Colouring Book.

“This gorgeous colouring book, which would work on different levels for children from about five right up to teenagers, is produced in connection with the National Gallery.”
The Independent

View sample pages from this book.

See the other books in this series.

Rosie Dickins

Rosie Dickins grew up in England and Hong Kong. An avid reader, she always loved making up her own stories. After studying literature at Oxford University, art in Paris and plenty of travelling, she settled in London, where she now works for Usborne Publishing. She has written over a hundred children's books, including award-winning non-fiction.

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