A four-year-old is attempting to analyse who the women in Raja Ravi Varma's Galaxy of Musicians are. The answer, for us adults, may just be in the title. But who knows what a four-year-old's imagination could lead to? That's exactly what Art1st's latest publication People and Places is all about. The city-based publisher has been putting out a series of books to raise awareness about Indian visual culture. Intended for pre-schoolers, People and Places, which released last month, is filled with lessons and games that encourage visual learning by getting the reader to keenly observe Indian artworks — like counting the number of objects in MF Husain's Untitled (painted relief panels mounted with toys) or Arpita Singh's Man with a Black Jacket, for instance.

To make it easier, the objects are boxed into categories like heads, children, alphabets, hands and legs, which can be ticked off by the child post observation. Other activities include spotting the differences between paintings, searching for images with them and spelling it, and guessing places they are set in.