A Bird or Two: A Story about Henri Matisse (Incredible Lives for Young Readers ) by Bijou Le Todr

A lyrical, vibrantly illustrated picture book biography of modern artist Henri Matisse. In the brilliant sun of Nice, France, 20th-century artist Henri Matisse painted the brightest, boldest colors he could imagine. Joyfully, he painted everywhere and everyone. Enchanted and with a light heart, he painted all the time. Bijou Le Tord's A Bird or Two offers young readers a lively, poetic portrait of Matisse, one of history's most masterful painters, sculptors, and printmakers. Le Tourd's joyful illustrations mirror the spirit, light, and colors of Matisse's work, and her poetic words sing to the music of his pictures. Ideal for reading aloud. Booklist "Matisse is a dapper, grandfatherly figure on these pages, embodying a sense of art as life as surely as his paintings do." Kirkus Reviews "Using a free style of brushwork that evokes Matisse's own joy and energy, Le Tord alternates her versions of his art with scenes of the man himself, always nattily dressed, always industriously making a