Kid Artists: True Tales of Childhood from Creative Legends in Bloomington, MN

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations reveal how Leonardo da Vinci, Beatrix Potter, Keith Haring, and other great artists in history coped with regular-kid problems.
Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless masterpieces. When the world’s most celebrated artists were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you.
Jackson Pollock’
s family moved constantly—he lived in eight different cities before he was sixteen years old.
Georgia O’Keeffe
lived in the shadow of her “perfect” older brother Francis.
And
Jean-Michel Basquiat
triumphed over poverty to become one of the world’s most influential artists.
Kid Artists
tells their stories and more with full-color cartoon illustrations on nearly every page. Other subjects include
Claude Monet
,
Jacob Lawrence
Leonardo da Vinci
Vincent van Gogh
Pablo Picasso
Frida Kahlo
Beatrix Potter
Yoko Ono
Dr. Seuss
Emily Carr
Keith Haring
Charles Schulz
, and
Louise Nevelson
.