Modern Art Mayhem: Create Your Own Adventure and Save the Gallery from Disaster

When the owner of Splosh Art Gallery calls in sick, it’s up to a scrawny, bespectacled boy—and readers—to prepare the gallery for an exhibition. Rather than progressing through the book page by page, readers are confronted with various questions (“Which materials are needed for your installation?”), and the answers direct them to specific pages in a choose-your-path-style structure. Images of modern artists and their work appear throughout, giving readers a crash course in various schools of thought and styles, which are further explored in a glossary. Part caper, part art history lesson, it’s a novel introduction to dozens of influential artists. Ages 6–9. (Jan.)