The Language of Art is your guide to action. Advocating practices backed by a strong theoretical framework, it provides:

• advice on setting up a studio space for art and inquiry in your early childhood classroom or family child care home
• fifteen studio explorations on topics such as texture, colour, and sculpting, designed to help children begin to develop fluency in art
• suggestions for documenting children's developing fluency with art media and its use in inquiry
• guidelines, with illustrative stories, for using a child's new-found ability as a tool for investigation.