The Artist Who Painted A Blue Horse
by Eric Carle
A young child paints a series of animals in unusual colours – a blue horse, a red crocodile, a yellow cow – and proudly declares themselves an artist.
Eric Carle’s first picture book in four years is a bright, colourful celebration of creativity, full of his gorgeous illustrations painted and scratched into to create added texture.
Inspired by his experiences growing up in Nazi Germany and the restrictions of the art of the time, he was lucky enough to have a teacher who secretly showed him the colourful artwork of Franz Marc who created The Blue Rider movement which challenged the idea of what an artist should do.
This book is bound to be a useful and inspirational tool to use in the classroom and at home to encourage young people to draw and paint the world however they see it.
Publisher: Puffin
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Eric Carle
Eric Carle has illustrated more than seventy books, and more than 88 million copies of his books have sold around the world.
He is one of the best-known and loved of picture book creators. His work is immediately recognisable through his vibrant use of colour and tissue-paper collage. Eric Carle's most famous book is, of course, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
In the mid 1960s, Carle decided to give up a successful career in advertising to become an illustrator and graphic designer. His first published work appeared in a cookery book. Soon afterwards, children's book author Bill Martin asked him to illustrate the manuscript of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? The resulting book was an instant hit. Encouraged by this success, Carle began submitting ideas for his own books. One of these was Willie The Worm. His editor suggested that a caterpillar might prove a more endearing character - the rest is history.
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