You'll see that there is much overlap between this text and the others, this text however, demonstrates another way of learning about the elements and principles of art through pictorial means. Where the text Art: Your Visual Environment uses images of real world examples illustrate their meaning (like case studies) and Principles of Two Dimensional Design relies mostly on diagrams, this text builds expressive shapes and the worlds that those shapes exist within in order to build up images of a fable. While focused at narrative, the text builds up your understanding of the principles and their expressive qualities, or ways that they help us understand meaning. Well worth spending some time with, but be sure you look at one of the other texts to help fill in the elements and a more technical knowledge.

TLDR: You will learn as much from reading a few words and looking at the images that accompany the images that demonstrates the text, but well worth spending a little time with it.

The scan included here includes the front matter of the book so you can see more information about it, and includes the chapter titled "The Principles".

Picture This: How Pictures Work, Molly Bang