Series: Anholt's Artists

Degas and the Little Dancer tells the story of Marie, a young girl with dreams of becoming the most famous ballerina in the world. Her journey begins when she joins the ballet school in Paris. At the school, Marie notices a fierce man sitting at the side, sketching the dancers. This man is none other than Edgar Degas, the renowned...

Paul Cézanne 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...

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...

Julie's dog leads her into a mysterious garden where she meets the artist Claude Monet. Part of the highly successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters, it tells the stories of real meetings between world-famous artists and the children who knew them. When Julie's dog disappears into a mysterious garden, Julie follows him and finds herself in a beautiful garden-within-a-garden...

Where Camille lives, the sunflowers grow so high they look like real suns. One day, a strange man arrives in Camille's town. He has a straw hat and a yellow beard, and his name is Vincent van Gogh. Featuring stunning reproductions of the great artist's work and based on a true-life incident as seen through the eyes of a small...

Part of the highly successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters, this book tells the stories of real meetings between world-famous artists and the children who knew them. Zoro is the young pupil of the amazing painter, sculptor, scientist, and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. Every day he works hard in Leonardo's workshop, mixing colours, cleaning paintbrushes, and practising his drawings....