My favorite books I have read with my boys lately have featured art or architecture as a central part of the story: I'm listening now to the Wright Three, in which a central feature is a Frank Lloyd Wright House. Christopher enjoyed reading Masterpiece this summer, and we all loved Hugo where early film and photography played such a central role in the book. One of my favorite childhood books was From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Kantwiler, which stars a lost Michaelangelo.
Books are such a good way to provide a bridge into a work of art. The frame may be fiction, but it creates an interest another way of seeing the world.
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