(3) K-3 Translated by Paul Kelly. Illustrated by Florence Koenig. Friends Anna, a servant, and Johanna, the master's daughter, discover a secret on their shared twelfth birthday in seventeenth-century Delft. The picture book's plot, explained in the author's note, is based on two Jan Vermeer paintings, The Milkmaid and The Lacemaker. Lush acrylic paintings use some of Vermeer's imagery. More information about Vermeer and reproductions of the source paintings are included.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt

(1) K-3 Visiting London's National Gallery, Rogers's bulb-headed boy (The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard) and the dog from Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Marriage time travel to seventeenth-century Delft where they end up in Vermeer's The Little Street. The sequential art in this superb, witty wordless book features fast-paced action.

Reviewer: Kathleen T. Horning | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2012

(3) 4-6 Raczka "interviews" the subjects of seven Vermeer paintings, from The Milkmaid to The Geographer. The subjects provide both historical context and artistic interpretation in the interviews, which are casual and only rarely seem forced or artificial. The page design is inviting. More than an introduction to Vermeer's work, the book offers a blueprint for how to "read" and discuss art in general. Bib.

Reviewer: Norah Piehl

(4) 4-6 Adventures in Art series. Nearly two dozen Vermeer paintings are reproduced and discussed here, with an emphasis on style, technique, and the artist's tendency to depict seemingly ordinary moments suspended in time. The darker themes underlying Vermeer's light-infused paintings are also touched on. A brief biographical sketch closes the volume, but it includes little information or historical context for the artist's life and work.

Reviewer: Norah Piehl

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Brett Helquist. Sixth-grade classmates Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay are drawn into a mysterious claim that some of the works attributed to Johannes Vermeer were not, in fact, painted by that seventeenth-century Dutch artist. The protagonists are smart and appealing, the prose style is agreeably quirky, and fans of puzzle-mysteries will enjoy cracking the codes presented within the text and hidden in the illustrations.

Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2004