Laurence Anholt Books

Part of the highly-successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters, which tells the stories of real meetings between world-famous artists and the children who knew them. When Julie's dog disappears into a mysterious garden, Julie follows him - and finds herself in a beautiful garden-within-a-garden where the roses grow like splashes of paint and a Japanese bridge bows over a silent pool. There she finds not only her dog, but also Claude Monet. The famous artist introduces her to his work and his garden, giving her encouragement that the young would-be artist will never forget. Set against the romantic, world-famous backdrop of Monet's garden at Giverny, the story is accompanied by reproductions of the artist's most celebrated paintings and a biographical note on Monet.

What are kids like? What do kids do? What's in a kid's pocket? What do kids dream of? All is revealed in this book. It is one of four reissues about the same children.

Despite the derision of their neighbors, a young French boy and his family befriend the lonely painter who comes to their town and begin to admire his unusual paintings.

The twins Meret and Bella love their grandfather, Papa Chagall, and he loves telling them stories.

Paul Cezanne was one of the greatest of the French impressionist painters. This delightful book follows his son, also called Paul, as he travels to the mountains to spend a summer with his father. He discovers that his father, a very large man, paints the natural world with a passion that few can understand. But one day they meet an art dealer in a village who offers to try to sell some of the paintings in Paris ... the rest is history. The reader gains a real insight into Cezanne the man through the eyes of a child - sometimes frightening, fastidious (he won't touch other people), warm-hearted, driven by a passion for his art. And it provides a vivid introduction to Cezanne's work, with reproductions of his most famous paintings incorporated in the illustrations.

The second book in the Mindful Detective series, starring DI Shanti Joyce

The book presents the lives of renowned artists like Frida Kahlo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Vincent van Gogh through the eyes of children who knew them. It compiles stories from Laurence Anholt's beloved children's art series, which has sold millions worldwide, into a single inspiring volume. This unique perspective offers a fresh and engaging way for young readers to connect with the lives and works of these iconic figures in art history.

This is the sixth title in the highly-successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters. Each book tells the story of real meetings between a world-famous artist and a child who inspired him in his work, with reproductions of some of the artist's most famous works. This book describes the close relationship between Matisse and Monique, a young girl who wants to become a nun. Matisse develops a sketch drawn by Monique into a set of stained-glass windows and starts raising money to build a chapel for the nuns at Vence, in south-west France. Finally one morning when the chapel is finished, Monique sees the special magic of Matisse's design: when the sun's rays creep into the chapel, transforming its black and white interior into a fantastic sea of blue and green light!

Welcome to the wonderful world of the 2001 Smarties Gold Award winners, Chimp and Zee, the cheekiest, most mischievous, most loveable twins in the whole of Jungletown. Two cheeky little monkeys have eaten all of Mumkey's bananas, so she takes Chimp and Zee to Jungletown to get some more. But Chimp and Zee think shopping is boring and start to monkey about. They play hide and seek with Mumkey, and hide in her banana basket on top of a big grey stone. But the grey stone starts to rumble, wobble and shake, and gets up and walks away!! How will they ever get home?...

The latest book in the Mindful Detective series, starring DI Shanti Joyce