Kids Book Review: The Museum Trip

I write about my favorite travel-related kids books every other week. Most books are from my personal collection, or checked out from the library, but whenever I do accept a book for review from a publisher, I will always let you know. If you buy the book using the Amazon link at the end of the post, I earn a small commission, and that income helps me keep the site going.

One of the best ways to get kids to do what you want, the research says, is to have them role-play. Kids will stay still longer if you ask them to pretend they're tin soldiers than with a threat or a bribe.

I'm no educator, but when it comes to getting my own kids to enjoy museums (or at least behave), that's certainly true. That's why I love books about kids in museums, artists, or historical fiction set in a period we'll be exploring in a museum. We can lift the characters right out of the book and pretend to be them instead of us.

Museum Trip, by Barbara Lehman is one of E's favorite books, and he has come back to it often over the past two years. In this wordless story a young boy gets separated from the other students on a class field trip, and finds himself in a secret room full of mazes. E loves to solve the mazes (at first he did them with help, now he does them on his own) and to imagine being in a secret world all his own. And believe me, we look for the secret door to the maze room on every single museum trip.

Right now, this books is bargain Priced on Amazon at $6 for hardback Museum Trip

Related Links:
Favorite Children's Books, Toys and References about Art Museums

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3 comments | Posted on July 21, 2010 | Save to del.icio.us

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  1. Noodles and Waffles on July 21, 2010 at 5:54 a.m.

    Did you see the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is letting a few select people live in the museum for a month? That would be quite the museum trip.

  2. Jen on July 22, 2010 at 6:33 a.m.

    This is such a great book! For the children ready for chapter books, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsberg is a great pre-museum book trip!

  3. Debbie on July 23, 2010 at 1:28 a.m.

    @Noodles Wow! That would be a crazy experience
    @Jen great recommendation. I'll add that to the kids wish list.