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Anholt's ArtistsSeries

This series of engaging stories brings to life the encounters between real children and legendary artists. Each book explores the world of art through innocent eyes, uncovering moments of inspiration. It's a warm and educational way to learn about the lives and works of significant creators. The narratives are filled with discovery and childhood curiosity.

Degas and the Little Dancer
Leonardo and the Flying Boy
Degas and the Little Dancer
Tell Us a Story, Papa Chagall
Camille and the Sunflowers
Cézanne and the Apple Boy

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  • Cézanne and the Apple Boy

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    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.

    Cézanne and the Apple Boy

  • Degas and the Little Dancer

    • 32 pages
    • 2 hours of reading
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    Marie dreams of becoming the most famous ballerina in the world. When she joins the ballet school in Paris, she notices a fierce man sitting at the side, sketching the dancers. The man is the painter, Edgar Degas, and his clay model of Marie does indeed make her the most famous dancer of all.

    Degas and the Little Dancer

  • Van Gogh and the Sunflowers

    • 32 pages
    • 2 hours of reading
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    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.

    Van Gogh and the Sunflowers

  • Matisse, King of Colour

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    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!

    Matisse, King of Colour