Little Frida: A Story of Frida Kahlo

by Anthony Browne (Author) Anthony Browne (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

Young Frida Kahlo's imaginary friend comes to life in a touching story by Anthony Browne enhanced by exquisite surreal illustrations.

Following a bout with polio at the age of six, Frida Kahlo's life was marked by pain and loneliness. In real life she walked with a limp, but in her dreams she flew. One day her imagination took her on a journey to a girl in white who could dance without pain and hold her secrets, an indelible figure who would find her way into Frida's art in years to come. Inspired by Frida Kahlo's diary, Anthony Browne captures the essence of the artist's early flights of fancy and depicts both Frida and her imaginary friend in vivid illustrations evoking Kahlo's iconic style. A note at the end offers a brief biography of the artist who has intrigued art lovers the world over.

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Anthony Browne
Anthony Browne is a former British Children's Laureate as well as a two-time winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the first British winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration. He has written and illustrated many acclaimed books, including Willy and the Cloud, Gorilla, What If . . . ?, Little Beauty, Hide and Seek, and Little Frida. Anthony Browne lives in Kent, England.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781536209334
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Candlewick Press (MA)
Publication date
October 20, 2019
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV003000 - Juvenile Fiction | Art & Architecture
JUV030100 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Mexico
JUV004070 - Juvenile Fiction | Biographical | Latin America
Library of Congress categories
Childhood and youth
Biographies
Picture books
Kahlo, Frida
Painters
Mexico
Juvenile works
Women artists
Women painters

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