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Hardback32 pages
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www.eric-carle.com/home.htmlPublisher
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4th October 2011ISBN
9780141340012Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse
Eric Carle
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Julia Eccleshare's comment:
Best-selling Eric Carle, creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, brings his brilliant use of colour to the fore in these bold illustrations of brightly coloured animals. Carle’s blue horse, orange elephant, purple fox and the rest are a tangible expression of his fervently held belief in the importance of the artist expressing himself freely.
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Synopsis
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric CarleJust like an imaginative child, Eric Carle is one of the artists who paints the world as he sees it - a red crocodile, an orange elephant, a purple fox, a black polar bear and a wonderful polka-dotted donkey. This book gives a tribute to his creative life. Filled with some of the most magnificently colourful animals of Eric Carle's career, this is a book that celebrates imagination and the artist within us all. Inspired by the work of the great Expressionist painter Franz Marc, a founder of the artists' group known as Der Blaue Reiter ( The Blue Rider ), who famously used abstract blue horses in his paintings. Marc's vibrantly colourful paintings influenced generations of artists, and fired the imaginations of children's book artists far and wide. Examples of Marc's paintings and a short biography are included at the end of the book.
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Reviews
'..a lovely book to look at and talk about with children of different ages. You can also use it to inspire children's own drawing and painting activities.' The Bookbag.co.uk
'When the great Carle releases a book, the world sits up and pays attention .. This newest title from Carle is a true delight.' Kirkus Reviews
About The Author
Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of books for very young children. He was born in New York, but spent his early life in Germany. He returned to the United States in his early twenties and worked as a graphic designer and an art director before he began creating children's books. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Barbara. The Carles opened The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts in 2002.
The first book he illustrated, written by Bill Martin, Jr., was Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (1967). Carle then wrote and illustrated 1, 2, 3 To The Zoo (1968), and has been publishing children's books ever since. His distinctive collage-illustration has made his books instantly recognisable, and he has won numerous awards throughout his career. Some of Carle's most popular titles are The Mixed-Up Chameleon (1975), The Very Busy Spider (1984), The Very Quiet Cricket (1990) and The Very Lonely Firefly (1995).
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