How to Paint the Portrait of a Bird - Hardcover

Prevert, Jacques

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596432152 ISBN 13: 9781596432154

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press, 2007

Synopsis

Setting up his easel, prepping his palette, and picking up his brush, a young boy captures the beauty of the day as he paints the majesty of a tree, the warmth of the sun, and wonderment of a visiting bird.

About this title

About the Author:

Jacques Prevert (1900-1977) was a French poet and screenwriter.

Mordicai Gerstein is the author and illustrator of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, winner of the Caldecott Medal, and has had four books namedNew York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. Gerstein was born in Los Angeles in 1935. He remembers being inspired as a child by images of fine art, which his mother cut out ofLife magazine, and by children's books from the library: "I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures."

He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and then got a job in an animated cartoon studio that sent him to New York, where he designed characters and thought up ideas for TV commercials. When a writer named Elizabeth Levy asked him to illustrate a humorous mystery story about two girls and a dog, his book career began, and soon he moved on to writing as well as illustrating. "I'm still surprised to be an author," he says. "I wonder what I'll write next?" Gerstein lives in Westhampton, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1596432152
• ISBN 13: 9781596432154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40
• Illustrator: Gerstein Mordicai