The artist and me / written by Shane Peacock ; illustrated by Sophie Casson.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Toronto, ON : Owlkids Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 42 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781771471381
- 1771471387
- Junior Library Guild selection
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Arts & Creativity | Peacock Shane | Available | 33111008444305 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Vincent van Gogh is now known as an acclaimed, incomparable Post-impressionist painter. But when he lived in Arles, France, in the 1880s, he was mocked for being different. Back then, van Gogh was an eccentric man with wild red hair who used clashing hues to paint unusual-looking people and strange starry skies. Children and adults alike called him names and laughed at him. Nobody bought his art. But he kept painting.
Inspired by these events, The Artist and Me is the fictional confession of one of van Gogh's bullies -- a young boy who adopted the popular attitude of adults around him. It's not until the boy faces his victim alone that he realizes there is more than one way to see the world.
Artwork in the book uses vibrant color and texture to bring the laneways, cafés, and wheat fields of southern France to life while playing on scenes from van Gogh's own work. The lyrical text carries the emotional weight of the subject and will leave readers with the understanding that everyone's point of view is valuable.
Includes bibliographical references.
A boy recounts how he took on the attitude of the adults around him and bullied an eccentric painter in 1880's France, before discovering that there is more than one way to see the world.
Junior Library Guild selection