Edgar Degas (Revised Edition) (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)

By Mike Venezia

Book Overview

Meet Artist Edgar Degas

Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the works of renowned artists, combining poignant anecdotes with important factual information for readers (Ages 8-9).Clever illustrations and story lines, together with full-color reproductions of Edgar Degas' actual works, give children a light yet realistic overview of this artist's life and style.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531220877
• ISBN13: 9780531220870
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: C. Press/F. Watts Trade
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.6" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 4

Customer Reviews

My kindergartner loves this book!

Venezia does a great job of making Hopper's biography interesting to kids, and his work accessible and exciting to them. Examples of his paintings are presented throughout the story, and readers learn what influenced the works at different periods of his life. The author's own cartoons, interpreting events in the story, are very funny. Both big and small kids love them. One of the very best children's books about art we have ever read. Venezia's entire series is wonderful.