Kid Artists
True Tales of Childhood from Creative Legends
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $7.99
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Publisher Description
Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations reveal how Leonardo da Vinci, Beatrix Potter, Keith Haring, and other great artists in history coped with regular-kid problems.
Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless masterpieces. When the world’s most celebrated artists were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you.
Jackson Pollock’s family moved constantly—he lived in eight different cities before he was sixteen years old. Georgia O’Keeffe lived in the shadow of her “perfect” older brother Francis. And Jean-Michel Basquiat triumphed over poverty to become one of the world’s most influential artists.
Kid Artists tells their stories and more with full-color cartoon illustrations on nearly every page. Other subjects include Claude Monet, Jacob Lawrence, Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Beatrix Potter, Yoko Ono, Dr. Seuss, Emily Carr, Keith Haring, Charles Schulz, and Louise Nevelson.
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Stabler recounts the early lives of more than a dozen artists including Andy Warhol, Beatrix Potter, Yoko Ono, Keith Haring, and Vincent van Gogh in this companion to Kid Presidents and Kid Athletes. Throughout, he draws loose connections between the subjects' childhood experiences, whether positive or negative, and their artistic development. Ted Geisel "warned about the dangers of discrimination" in books like The Sneetches in part because of anti-German prejudice he faced during WWII; Frida Kahlo's time spent recovering from illness and injury led her to begin creating self-portraits. Memorably weird childhood moments Jackson Pollock accidentally had part of a finger chopped off and then eaten by a rooster are likely to stick with readers, as will Horner's impish cartoons. Ages 9 12.
