Vincent Paints His House - Hardcover

Arnold, Tedd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823432106 ISBN 13: 9780823432103

Publisher: Holiday House, 2015

Synopsis

Vincent is ready to paint his house—but what color should it be?
 
He starts painting it white, but the spider says it's his house, and he likes red. The caterpillar says it's his house and he likes yellow. The beetle likes purple, and the bird likes blue.
 
Each color introduces a new variety of vibrant shades, filling Vincent’s palette with too many options.  But, creative genius that he is, Vincent finds a way to make everyone happy!
 
Blending his signature cartoonish style with the textures and color choices of a certain post-impressionist Vincent, Tedd Arnold has created a simple story about friendship and compromise which is also a quiet, charming introduction to one of the most famous painters of history.

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About the Author

Tedd Arnold is the best-selling author-illustrator of the Fly Guy series, with two Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor books and more than 18.5 million books in print. He is author and illustrator of Dirty Gert and Fix This Mess!, an I Like to Read book. Tedd is co-author and illustrator of the Noodleheads series, including Noodleheads See the Future, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Honor Book, an American Library Association Notable Book, and winner of the American Folklore Society's Aesop Prize.

Reviews

K-Gr 2— In Vincent Paints His House, Arnold uses van Gogh's famous relationship to color as the point of entry for young readers; the artist can't make up his mind what color he likes best. "White is nice," he says. But the creatures around the house soon make their opinions known; the spider likes red, the caterpillar likes yellow, and so on. The result is a house painted all the colors, and "everyone was happy." The final page shows the house as an element of van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night. Arnold manages to infuse van Gogh's brush strokes and palette into his own distinctive art style and the mash-up offers a successful introduction to the painter, though he limits his audience with its simplicity. Art teachers may find this book a useful tool, and fans of Arnold's other work will welcome another opportunity for easy reading and deep looking. More insight into van Gogh's color sense can be found in the well-received Vincent's Colors (Chronicle, 2005), and Laurence Anholt's Van Gogh and the Sunflowers (Eerdmans, 2011) is an age-appropriate biographical story. VERDICT Recommended.—Lisa Lehmuller, East Providence School District, RI

Edition details

• Publisher: Holiday House
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823432106
• ISBN 13: 9780823432103
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32