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Michelin paints portraits that do not flatter her sitters but she learns an enduring lesson when she must paint her kindly aunt and uncle
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From Publishers Weekly
Executed in vibrant colors, characters with singularly expressive faces fill the pages of this book, in which Edwards offers a distinctive portrait of a painter of portraits. Michelin insists on putting exactly what she sees on canvas, which gets her into trouble when she renders a study of the mayor's family--warts and all. Her honesty has caused business to fall off, until finally she is asked to catch the likeness of her aunt and uncle, who own a bakery. Michelin is faced with a dilemma: does she portray her rotund uncle and her toothless aunt as they really are? The resourceful painter's solution provides a piquant ending to the tale. As in her Chicken Man , Edwards's old-world setting and underlying message lend this story the feeling of a modern folktale. Ages 5-up.
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From Kirkus Reviews
Painter Michelin is out of work because people don't care for her candid portraits. When her family finds her a commission, it puts Michelin in a quandry: her aunt and uncle, who are bakers, are not only unprepossesing but fat. But after honest (if ugly) preliminary drawings, she finds a way to satisfy both her integrity and her sitters--she paints their favorite foods, a handsome chocolate cake and a crusty challah. Using vigorous black line and vivid, sophisticated colors in her own sympathetic but unsparing art, Edwards makes it clear that, though these people may look homely, they are also interesting and likable. An entertaining story whose message reaches beyond the world of art. (Picture book. 5-9) -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherLothrop Lee & Shepard
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 068809712X
- ISBN 13 9780688097127
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages1
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