I love Matisse bright artwork. He also has a good heart in helping his friend Monique in getting the chapel repaired.
Matisse the King of Color (Anholt's Artists Books for Children)
By Laurence Anholt
Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
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n/a | Grades 2 - 4 | n/a | 3.6 | 1188 |
When Monique, a young visiting nurse, steps into the home of an elderly patient, she finds herself in rooms filled with the most vivid color she has ever seen. Her patient is the artist Henri Matisse, and as Matisse recovers from his illness, he and Monique become good friends. Later, Monique enters a convent where she becomes a nursing nun―and by happy coincidence, she meets Matisse once again. Her religious order is so poor that they don’t have a chapel of their own, but Matisse decides that with Monique’s help, he can remedy that situation. He develops a sketch drawn by Monique into a brilliant set of stained-glass chapel windows, and then uses his influence to raise enough money for the chapel’s construction. This true account of Matisse and the chapel at Vence, in southern France, is the main focus of Laurence Anholt’s newest delightful children’s story. Anholt’s illustrations faithfully reproduce many of Matisse’s wonderful artworks in this beautiful storybook.
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
ISBN-13: 9780764160479
ISBN-10: 0764160478
Published on 10/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 32