Here, Ms. Rothschild gives her five picks for essential—nonturgid—reading in art history. “These were my teachers,” she says. “Books which I come back to.” Edited from an interview.

an arts educator and author of numerous books about children's art education. Visual Learning. Drawing, sculpting with clay and threading beads on a string all develop visual-spatial skills ...

And the stones they painted now feature on the cover of the new Standard V Art Education Activity Book of the Kerala State Syllabus. In June 2023, when their drawing books didn’t arrive on time ...