Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1929. An excellent copy of this pochoir coloured art training manual with designs executed by very young students between the ages 4 and 8 from écoles maternelles and classes enfantines. Authors Madeleline Bardot, inspectrice des Écoles Maternelles de la Seine and advocate of “l’education nouvelle,” a popular movement emphasizing educating the total person” and M. Claveau, professor of drawing in the lycées and écoles normales of the period have selected 64 pieces from the best examples of student work. The initial plates, though filled by the students, were largely formed by teachers, but the last three plates were created solely by the imagination and training of the young students. Geometric outlines were proposed for this age group as being the least distracting and, yet, the most rewarding for permitting the liberating use of colour. The designs could be applied to crafts, such as embroidery (a few black and white examples are shown) and the authors hoped that they would be displayed in homes and in schools. The models selected here demonstrate a sensibility in the children that gives their work the value of art “plus précieux que la perfection d’une technique toute matérielle.” Examples are found in French libraries, of course, - the BNfr. being the only one to mention a copy dated 1928. In the US, we locate copies at Yale and at the University of Delaware. A beautiful and important work in school art education from this period, especially with its 64 illustrations in pochoir. Ref. 16859 With 64 Decorative Compositions Coloured by Pochoir Oblong 4to (23 x 28 cm); 8 pp. with half tone illustrations + xvi plates, each with 4 designs coloured by pochoir.