Kid Artists

<b>Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations reveal how Leonardo da Vinci Beatrix Potter Keith Haring and other great artists in history coped with regular-kid problems.</b> <p/>Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards the sold-out museum exhibitions and the timeless masterpieces. When the world's most celebrated artists were growing up they had regular-kid problems just like you. <p/><ul><li><b>Jackson Pollock'</b>s family moved constantly--he lived in eight different cities before he was sixteen years old. </li><li><b>Georgia O'Keeffe</b> lived in the shadow of her perfect older brother Francis. </li><li>And <b>Jean-Michel Basquiat</b> triumphed over poverty to become one of the world's most influential artists. </li></ul><br>Readers ages 8 to 12 years old will learn all their stories and more with full-color cartoon illustrations on nearly every page. Other subjects include <b>Claude Monet</b> <b>Jacob Lawrence</b> <b>Leonardo da Vinci</b> <b>Vincent van Gogh</b> <b>Pablo Picasso</b> <b>Frida Kahlo</b> <b>Beatrix Potter</b> <b>Yoko Ono</b> <b>Dr. Seuss</b> <b>Emily Carr</b> <b>Keith Haring</b> <b>Charles Schulz</b> and <b>Louise Nevelson</b>.