Art Books for Kids
570 books in art. Every book rated for reading level and content intensity.
Art books for kids span a wider readiness range than parents usually expect. The same genre category contains gentle picture books and high-intensity middle-grade novels — Lexile and grade-level scores measure text complexity, not what's actually in the story. A art title appropriate for a confident 8-year-old reader could still cover themes a sensitive 12-year-old isn't ready for.
Across HootRated's 570 art titles, books span picture books through Grade 8. About 95% are rated Gentle or Mild — safe picks for sensitive readers and kids reading ahead of their emotional readiness. 0% sit at the Intense or Very Intense end. Average content intensity is 1.1/5.
Use the intensity badges (green → red, low → high) to filter by emotional readiness rather than just age. For deeper detail on how we rate, see our rating methodology.
History of art criticism
Lionello Venturi
History of art criticism
Lionello Venturi
Norman Rockwell
Joel H. Cohen
Norman Rockwell
Joel H. Cohen
Mary Cassatt
Blake A. Hoena
Mary Cassatt
Blake A. Hoena
Art and Religion in Ancient Rome (Primary Sources of Ancient Civilizations. Rome)
Daniel C. Gedacht
Art and Religion in Ancient Rome (Primary Sources of Ancient Civilizations. Rome)
Daniel C. Gedacht
Crayons from start to finish
Samuel G. Woods
Crayons from start to finish
Samuel G. Woods
Dreaming in Indian
Mary Beth Leatherdale, Lisa Charleyboy
Dreaming in Indian
Mary Beth Leatherdale, Lisa Charleyboy
Children Are Artists
Daniel Marcus Mendelowitz
Children Are Artists
Daniel Marcus Mendelowitz
My shalom, my peace
Jacob Zim
My shalom, my peace
Jacob Zim
One across, two down
Ruth Rendell
One across, two down
Ruth Rendell
Mask magic
Carolyn Meyer
Mask magic
Carolyn Meyer
Art in action
Guy Hubbard
Art in action
Guy Hubbard
How to draw the Wild West.
Arthur Zaidenberg
How to draw the Wild West.
Arthur Zaidenberg
Night of the tiger
Mary McCaffrey
Night of the tiger
Mary McCaffrey
Presumed innocence
Kathryn Hixson, Robert Carleton Hobbs
Presumed innocence
Kathryn Hixson, Robert Carleton Hobbs
The Tower of Babel
Yvette Contempré
The Tower of Babel
Yvette Contempré
Maria de Sautuola
Dennis B. Fradin
Maria de Sautuola
Dennis B. Fradin
Draw 50 boats, ships, trucks & trains
Lee J. Ames
Draw 50 boats, ships, trucks & trains
Lee J. Ames
Aska's birds
Aska, Warabé.
Aska's birds
Aska, Warabé.
Stories in stone
Caroline Arnold
Stories in stone
Caroline Arnold
Art for all the children
Frances Elisabeth Anderson
Art for all the children
Frances Elisabeth Anderson
Art for all the children
Anderson, Frances E.
Art for all the children
Anderson, Frances E.
My brother's keeper
Israel Bernbaum
My brother's keeper
Israel Bernbaum
Michelangelo's world
Piero Ventura
Michelangelo's world
Piero Ventura
Angel in blue
Jenny Haley
Angel in blue
Jenny Haley
Leonardo - A Scrapbook in Words and Pictures
Grace Catalano
Leonardo - A Scrapbook in Words and Pictures
Grace Catalano
Pictures of innocence
Anne Higonnet
Pictures of innocence
Anne Higonnet
Frederic Remington
Donna Baker
Frederic Remington
Donna Baker
Printing
Ruth Thomson
Printing
Ruth Thomson
Looking at Horses
June Behrens
Looking at Horses
June Behrens
Animals
Wendy Richardson
Animals
Wendy Richardson
Sculpture: the shapes of belief.
Penelope Naylor
Sculpture: the shapes of belief.
Penelope Naylor
Thomas Nast
David Shirley
Thomas Nast
David Shirley
The Art-literature readers
Frances Elizabeth Chutter
The Art-literature readers
Frances Elizabeth Chutter
American drawings
Paul Cummings
American drawings
Paul Cummings
Norman Rockwell's Christmas Book
Norman Rockwell, Molly Rockwell
Norman Rockwell's Christmas Book
Norman Rockwell, Molly Rockwell
Syd Hoff's How to draw dinosaurs
Syd Hoff
Syd Hoff's How to draw dinosaurs
Syd Hoff
Starting home
Mary E. Lyons
Starting home
Mary E. Lyons
In search of the spirit
Sheila Hamanaka
In search of the spirit
Sheila Hamanaka
Drawings of people by the under-5s
M. V. Cox
Drawings of people by the under-5s
M. V. Cox
Art
Jo Marceau
Art
Jo Marceau
Art for fun projects
Sue Lacey
Art for fun projects
Sue Lacey
Imagination in art
Taylor, George.
Imagination in art
Taylor, George.
Fairie-ality
Eugenie Bird
Fairie-ality
Eugenie Bird
Disney's toy story
Disney Book Group
Disney's toy story
Disney Book Group
Meditations on joy
Wendy Beckett
Meditations on joy
Wendy Beckett
An introduction to drawing
James Horton
An introduction to drawing
James Horton
The story of painting
Wendy Beckett
The story of painting
Wendy Beckett
Writers on artists [foreword by A.S. Byatt].
Barbara Minton
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Writers on artists [foreword by A.S. Byatt].
Barbara Minton
Francisco Goya
Martha Richardson
Francisco Goya
Martha Richardson
A trick of the eye
Dennis Haseley
A trick of the eye
Dennis Haseley
Drawing dinosaurs
Jérôme Goyallon
Drawing dinosaurs
Jérôme Goyallon
First shapes =
Ivan Chermayeff
First shapes =
Ivan Chermayeff
The visual arts
Hugh Honour
The visual arts
Hugh Honour
Joseph Stella, the Brooklyn Bridge
Saunders, Robert J.
Joseph Stella, the Brooklyn Bridge
Saunders, Robert J.
Rosa Bonheur, painter of animals
Olive M. Price
Rosa Bonheur, painter of animals
Olive M. Price
Letterheads
Leslie Cabarga
Letterheads
Leslie Cabarga
Horses
Deborah Butterfield
Horses
Deborah Butterfield
Folding screen
Frida Kahlo
Folding screen
Frida Kahlo
Sabine's notebook
Nick Bantock
Sabine's notebook
Nick Bantock
Dutch moderne
Steven Heller
Dutch moderne
Steven Heller
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- Mark Tansey
- Designer's guide to Scandinavian patterns
- Arthouse
- Streamline
- French Modern
- The art and craft of collage
- Visions of the north
- Squeak Carnwath
- Horace Bristol
- Dream animals
- Peter Milton
- All aboard!
- Designage
- Betty and Rita go to Paris
- Local color
- The designer's lexicon
- Faces
- Reclining nude
- Woman
- The art of Batman begins
- Once upon a Christmas
- How to draw prehistoric animals
- A Renaissance Christmas
- Flowers of youth
- The hand of Michelangelo
- Demons and beasts in art.
- Let's all draw cars, trucks, and other vehicles
- Painting maritime landscapes
- Costumes and customs of the British Isles
- To find the way
- Making connections
- Imagination and the arts in C.S. Lewis
- Life is just a chair of bowlies
- Over the river and through the woods
- A weekend with Velázquez
- Guide to German (Usborne Guides)
- Read a rhyme
- Children's drawings of the human figure
- Talking to the sun
- The roaring queen.
- Art in your world
- Art
- Simple printing methods.
- Kinetic family drawings (K-F-D)
- Graphic design, San Francisco
- Gordon Cook
- Beth Van Hoesen, creatures
- Picturing California
- Eiko by Eiko
- Computer type
- Simon and the snowflakes
- Jan Kunz watercolor techniques
- Capturing the magic of children in your paintings
- If...
- Children's clothes since 1750
- Erni Cabat's magical world of dinosaurs
- Earth maker's lodge
- The vegetarian factfinder
- 1-2-3 calligraphy!
- From the eye of the camera to the hand of the artist
- Charlie's trail
- The artful kitten
- The art class
- A child's book of art
- An introduction to oil painting
- The art of calligraphy
- Art in the nineteenth century
- Vincent van Gogh
- Paul Klee
- Three art assessments
- Gauguin
- Why make art?
- Children, television, and the new media
- Defining violence
- Edna Hibel
- Nothing ever happens
- The Little Hands nature book
- Journey to native America
- Marc Chagall
- Anemia: Prevalence and Prevention
- Understanding Art
- Art in focus
- Roll On, Roll on Story Pack
- The art of the Northwest Coast Indians
- Playground
- Introducing Art, Student Edition
- Exploring art
- Exploring art
- World Explorer
- Creating meaning through art
- The book of Emma Reyes
- Art in Action
- Goat Song
- Fugitive Cultures
- Mother nature, designer
- Objects and meanings
- People in action
- Art a Children's Encyclopedia
- Angels and Wild Things
- Imagining Childhood
- Teddy's Toys
- Spiritual Topics
- Art Works!
- The Hindu World (Religions of the World)
- The World of Art
- Nature in Art
- The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose
- Postmodern Picturebooks
- Miley Cyrus
- Letter Art AmericanGirl Library
- Portraits #1
- Art and design projects
- Art, mind, and brain
- Ancient Mexican Art Tattoos
- Littlest Angels Stickers
- American Revolution Coloring Set
- Creative Haven Asian Tattoo Design Coloring Book
- Creative Haven Wild Horses Stained Glass Coloring Book
- Creative Haven Simply Abstract Stained Glass Coloring Book
- Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists
- Andrew Wyeth (Artists in America)
- Van Gogh
- Comic & curious cats
- When we were young
- Oh, rats!
- Color (Junior Science)
- Frida Kahlo
- A short walk around the Pyramids & through the world of art
- Egg Carton Critters
- Month-by-month masterpieces
- Snow Treasure
- A young painter
- Magic Eye II
- Art, Annotated
- Out of this world
- Art of Inu-Yasha (Anime Art Gallery)
- How to Draw Your Own Supermonsters
- How to Draw Your Own Supercharacters
- How to Draw Animals
- The Mystery of the Third Lucretia
- The dog exercising machine.
- I CAN DRAW HALLOWEEN (I Can Draw)
- Adventures With Art
- Six Contemporary Cards
- Emphasis Art
- haris SUPR MARIO BROS ADV-PKG (Nintendo Comics System Series)
- The way to draw and color monsters
- Diego
- Art in the elementary school
- Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943
- Artists and Artisans
- Mary Cassatt
- Harry Potter Quidditch Stationery Portfolio
- The Way of Wizards
- Sister Knows Your Heart
- How Art Works
- How to Draw Spacecraft (Young Artist Series)
- Playdough (You and Your Child)
- Playtime Activities
- The art teacher's handbook
- Lost in Alaska
- Package Holiday
- China
- Matisse (Art Books)
- Millennium Classics
- Colour
- Colour and Light
- James Bond Movie Posters
- Quick draw
- Art
- Watercolor Workshop
- My art book
- The limners
- Fairie-ality
- Illustrating Children's Books
- Complete Guide to Anime Techniques
- Angels and tomboys
- Fun Crafts With Dots And Lines (Arts and Crafts Fun)
- Fun Crafts With Shapes (Arts and Crafts Fun)
- Fraud!
- Watercolor Still Life
- Painter's Eye
- Drawing Lessons
- National Gallery of Art
- Latin American Art
- Monet
- Dali
- Francisco Goya
- Van Gogh
- Voices
- The Usborne Book of Art Skills (Art Ideas)
- Letterbox
- Van Gogh (Masters of Modern Art)
- How to draw animals
- Lives of the artists
- Telling Pieces
- Drawing Step-by-Step
- Visions
- Jonathan Lerman
- Let's Go to the Art Museum
- Monet
- James McNeill Whistler
- History of art for young people
- Children of Promise
- Art in the Modern Era
- Diego Rivera
- Horses
- Frida Kahlo
- Saints
- Living Colors
- Writers
- Duotones, tritones and quadtones
- The journey is the destination
- The Mackintosh Style
- Farm Tractors
- Batman
- Katachi
- Process Color Manual, 24,000 CMYK Combinations for Design, Prepress, and Printing
- The Art of Monsters, Inc.
- Lennon Legend
- Epicenter
- Hang in there!
- The Calligraphy Kit
- Oopsy Daisy Trading Card Stickers
- Made in China
- Superman
- Wonder Woman
- Floral Sketches Address Book (Stay in Touch)
- Euro deco
- The Art of Robots
- Paint By Number Kit
- To Infinity and Beyond!
- Shag
- Ascending Chaos: The Art of Masami Teraoka 1966-2006
- The book of Shrigley
- Who I Am and What I Want
- Eat, drink, and be gorgeous
- Playboy
- I will never forget you
- Designer's guide to color
- The Amazing Spider-man
- William Matthews
- Rex Ray
- The Art of Beowulf
- Permanence
- Image and imagination
- The secret life of Syrian lingerie
- Stencil 101
- Monet's impressions
- Beach
- Underground Together
- Caravan to America
- Fashions of a Decade
- How To Draw Zoo Animals
- The Baltic Style (Portrait of the Soviet Union)
- The history of western sculpture
- Impressionism and postimpressionism
- Latina teens, migration, and popular culture
- Straight Is a Line a Book About Lines
- Draw 50 Boats, Ships, Trucks, and Trains
- Draw 50 Creepy Crawlies
- Facial expressions, babies to teens
- Using Color in Your Art!
- Marc Chagall
- I Can Draw Forest Animals (I Can Draw)
- My Little Bible in Pictures (with handle)
- Doodle Art
- Sistine Chapel
- Doodle Art Seven Wonders Medium
- Doodle Art Make Believe Mini
- Doodle Art Myths and Legends Mini
- Inside Bruegel
- Free and Inexpensive Arts and Crafts to Make and Use (Ga 1003)
- Discovering Drawing
- Van Gogh
- The Art Gallery
- Frances Hook Picture Book/R2868
- You Can Draw Puppies & Dogs
- The Way of Art
- A is for art museum
- Designer's Guide to Color
- Painting
- How to Draw Buildings (Young Artist Series)
- Canada Je Taime/I Love You
- Simon makes music (Simon)
- The art of exile
- The art of exile
- German Artists of Early Texas
- Perspectives on education reform
- Y Si...
- The story of Alexander the Great
- Discovering Art Dogs
- How to Draw Cars & Trucks (How to Draw)
- Following Jesus
- My Friend Jesus
- Color the Earth Blue and Green
- Child Rights & Remedies
- The Magic Box
- Great American Artists for Kids
- Unsuspected genius
- The Liberated page
- Rondo
- O California!
- California light, 1900-1930
- Shakespeare Coloring Book
- Hands-On Asia
- Art After School
- Virtual pose
- Teaching Geography Through Art
- The Gundam Explorer
- Learn to draw comic art
- Draw Manga Drawing Kit
- How to Draw Amazing Comic Book Characters
- How to Draw Adventure Friends and Other Cartoon Heroes
- Fugitive Cultures
- Brown Gold
- Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage
- Buddhist Symbols
- Seeing & Drawing
- I'm Good at Making Art (Day, Eileen. I'm Good at.)
- How To Draw The Life And Times Of George Washington (Kid's Guide to Drawing the Presidents of the United States of America)
- Watercolour workshop II
- Watercolour Workshop I
- I Can Draw Cartoons (I Can Draw)
- Draw It! Monsters and other scary stuff
- Incredible Mollusks (Incredible Creatures)
- Chinese Art & Culture (World Art & Culture)
- Drawing
- Sculptures
- Collages
- Art
- Mystery of the Missing Lunch
- Sinziro
- Legend of Dragonfly Pond
- Princess Christmas
- Aeroplane Child
- The ceramics bible
- Journey Is the Destination
- Verdant Garden Journal
- Cath Kidston Album Provence Rose
- Art of Instruction
- Amy Butler Eco-Journal
- Amy Butler Stationery Collection
- Cath Kidston Chicken Kitchen Notes
- Water color
- Sorted books
- Imagination Runs Wild
- The art of Big Hero 6
- Art of Disney
- Collage
- Art of Instruction
- Blue
- Freehand
- Underwater Museum
- Unexpected Art: Serendipitous Installations, Site-Specific Works, and Surprising Interventions
- In progress
- Fucking Awesome
- Mondrian Notes
- Virginia Woolf
- Library of Luminaries : Coco Chanel
- Create Now!
- Wing Reader
- Paris in Color
- It's OK to Feel Things Deeply
- Bad Girls Throughout History
- Brian Eno
- Clown Egg Register
- Art of Feminism
- Alex Prager
- Pink Book
- Legendary Ladies Notes
- Guerrilla Girls
- Wild Child's Guide to Endangered Animals
- Portrait of the Artist As a Young Cat
- You Are Your Best Friend
- Nevertheless, She Wore It
- Art
- Sketchbook for the Artist
- Chasing Vermeer
- Drawing Fantasy Creatures
- Childhood by Design
- Quentin Blake's Fantastic Journeys
- Lettering
- Creating with Fimo Acrylic Clay (Kids Can Do It)
- Illustrator's reference manual
- How to Draw and Paint the Outdoors
- Amazing Origami for Children
- Costume of ancient Egypt
- The Guide to Northern California Book Publishers
- Making Big Books With Children (Making Big Books with Children)
- The Moon Man
- Kids Can Draw Favorite Pets
- Cartoon Heroes & Villains (How to Draw and Paint series #262)
- Beginner's Guide
- Calligraphy (rev) Kit (Walter Foster Drawing Kits)
- Step-by-step drawing
- Beginner's Guide
- Paint it
- Ralph Lauren
- The young naturalist's guide to Florida
- The special artist's handbook
- Kids and Health Care
- Taking care of mom & dad
- Goya
- African Art Portfolio: An Illustrated Introduction masterpieces from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Century
- Voices and visions
- Uncovering the History of Children's Drawing and Art (Publications in Creativity Research)
- Art for the Very Young
- Drawing Dragons
- Open-Ended Art
- Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse
- Art Works
- Let's Start! Magic Colors
- Let's Start! Foam Art
- What's So Funny (Mr. Potato Head)
- Activity pack.
- Girl to Grrrl Manga
- Art as language
- Diego Rivera (Latinos in American History)
- Sailor Who Loved to Draw
- ReGeneration
- World Art (Artsmart)
- Art in History Prepack
- Strings (Musical Instruments)
- Children Map the World
- 3-D art lab for kids
- Leonardo
- Before their time
- Legends of the Arts
- Learn to Draw Disney's Enchanted Princesses Drawing Book and Kit
- Mean 'n' Messy Monsters
- Painting more animal friends
- Incredible Voyage of Ulysses
- Roosters
- What it's like to be Mariano Rivera
- How to Draw Cartoon Insects
- The Andy Cohen diaries
- Learn to Draw Star Wars : Droids & Vehicles
- Andrew Wyeth
- Stained Glass Animals
- My Year Around the World
- Big Freeze
- Spells & Potions
- Hush Treasure Book
- Top 5 Masterpieces Vol 1
- You Can Draw Pets
- How to Be a Moonflower
- Secrets of LEGO House
- Live Life Colorfully
- Thriving
- Color, Form, and Magic
- Cats in Spring Rain
- Anyone Can Cook
- Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods
- Color Curious
- Art Skills
- Secrets of Art
- The station
- How to Draw Animals
- In the garden
- Words and pictures
- Children in the picture
- Old master drawings from the Ashmolean Museum
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (My 1st Colorforms Book)
- Thank You, God
- Illuminations from the Bhagavad-gĩtã
- Art and Great Artists (Monkeyshines on)
- Portfolios
- Portfolios
- Portfolios
- Marcel Duchamp
- Sophie's Prize
- The Enormous Mister Schmupsle
- Rescued Images
- La gran sorpresa del museo
- Leo, Where are you? (Little Talentum: multiple intelligences in early childhood) (Visual Arts Collection)
- The Adventures of Dagri the Painter (Little Talentum: multiple intelligences in early childhood) (Visual Arts Collection)
- I Am Simply Me and I Love Pie
- Bible Stories Coloring Book
- Reverse Coloring Book for Beginners, Adults and Kids : Mindfulness, Abstract Watercolor Book, Color Reverse, Doodle Book
- My First Class
- Henri Rousseau's Jungle Book (Adventures in Art)
- Nara Yoshitomo
- GT-05-Made to Be a VI
- In The Dark
- Es Habitaciones Infantiles
- Votive statuettes of adult/s and infant/s in Ancient Italy from the end of the 7th to 1st c. BCE
- Old Princess Armonia, The
- Learning disabilities
- The Knight's Tale
- Pooh Bear
- A Day in the Life of a Fashion Designer
- Looking at Art
- Story of the Amulet
- How Do I Act?
- Tale of the Cat with the Crooked Tail
- How Santa Became a Toymaker
- Princess Fluffy Toes Loves to Dance
- Weight of the World
- Soft Shell
- Learn Your ABC's Through Art with Me
- Santa Was Here
- Pokemon Coloring Book
- Teddy Bear at the Theme Park
- Credible Inks Knights
- Peppermint the Little Ghost
- Snoozle ABC 123 Coloring Book
- Santa's Christmas Coloring List
- Christmas Coloring Book Chibi Christmas Coloring Book
- Eli & Friends Coloring Book
Questions parents ask about art books
- What are the best art books for kids?
- HootRated catalogs 570 art children's books spanning picture books through Grade 8. Each is rated on reading level and content intensity. The picks above are sorted by quality signals — hook factor, discussion potential, and content appropriateness.
- Are art books appropriate for sensitive readers?
- 542 books (95%) are rated Gentle or Mild — safe for sensitive readers. 1 (0%) are rated Intense or Very Intense. Average intensity is 1.1/5. Filter by intensity badge to match your child's emotional readiness.
- What reading level are art books?
- Art books in our catalog span picture books through Grade 8. The typical reading level lands around Grade 5. Reading level measures text difficulty — separate from content intensity, which measures emotional weight. The two often don't track together for gifted readers — the Gifted Kid Paradox.