Pablo the Artist - Hardcover

Kitamura, Satoshi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842704524 ISBN 13: 9781842704523

Publisher: Andersen Press, 2005

Synopsis

A unique new story about the joys of painting from this gifted picture book artist.

Mr. E is having trouble with his contribution to the painting exhibition. Nothing seems to be right. His fellow-artists suggest he try painting a landscape, so he sets off into the country to look for the perfect view. At lunchtime, he has done his best but he’s still not satisfied, so he decides to take a rest. While sleeping, he dreams that the local animals come and make some changes to his painting — Bird adds a bluer sky, Sheep adds a brighter green grass, and Mr. Wolf groups all of them together to add focus.

When Mr. E wakes up he knows just what to do to make his painting right!

About this title

About the Author:

Satoshi Kitamura was born in 1956 in Tokyo. Not formally trained as an artist, at the age of nineteen he began to do commercial art in Japan and, later, London. He won the Mother Goose Award for his first picture book, Angry Arthur, in collaboration with Hiawyn Oram, and in 2000 was the Smarties runner-up for Me and My Cat?
From the Trade Paperback edition.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 2–The Hoof Lane Art Club is preparing for an exhibition of their work, and it is Pablo the elephants dream to participate, but he is suffering from artists block. After trying his hand at every sort of painting from still life to abstract, he heads for an empty field to attempt a landscape. He paints a simple tree, eats lunch, and falls asleep. In his dream, Pablo is visited by various animals, each with a perspective that improves his painting. When he wakes up, he creates a masterpiece. The story lacks the humor of Kitamuras previous books and is disappointing. However, the illustrations are strong and the expressiveness of the characters lends much to the telling. Pablo is an earnest fellow, and the fact that he can still paint with his trunk while his hands are shoved in his pockets in frustration is a visual device used to great effect. The message that art is not created in a void might be missed by younger readers. However, the book offers a good platform from which to question children about where our ideas and inspirations come from, and as such would be suitable for storytime or classroom reading.–Kara Schaff Dean, Needham Public Library, MA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Andersen Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1842704524
• ISBN 13: 9781842704523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32