This is one of a series of books on modern art created to help very young people learn the basic vocabulary used by artists, a sort of ABC of art. Parents and teachers play a key role in this learning process, encouraging careful, thoughtful looking. In People, author Philip Yenawine, longtime Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art, provides a gallery of portraits and group scenes of people old and young, realistic and fanciful. It includes reproductions of works by such artists as Paul Cezanne, Ben Shahn, Oskar Kokoschka, and Diego Rivera.

The other books in the series are Lines, Colors, Stories, Shapes, and Places. Each volume in the series comes with an illustrated summary of artworks. 24 pp.; 40 illus.