Faces for Baby: Twelve More Works by Famous Artists to Share with Your Child

This companion to Art for Baby (2009) retains the oversize format of its predecessor, but puts its emphasis on depictions of faces in modern art. Where that book was built around high-contrast b&w images, Peel now collects 12 wildly divergent faces, from Picasso’s Lastre au Visage Gravé, carved roughly into terracotta, to a dreamy sprite in acrylic from Hideaki Kawashima and a blobby oil portrait of a child from Chuck Close. Although no female artists are included, readers will be left thinking about the different ways faces can be represented, and the mirrored surface in the final page lets them add their own features to the mix. Up to age 3. (Mar.)