Paint Brushes For Frida
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This beautifully imagined tale of artistic desire and perseverance is inspired by Frida Kahlo's Self Portrait with Monkeys.
Illustrated with paintings that recall Kahlo's bold, colorful style, it takes readers inside Kahlo's bedroom, where she typically painted, and shows how the artist brilliantly incorporated the natural world into her work.
Frida is lying in her bed, imprisoned by painful injuries she sustained in an accident. She yearns to paint, but can only manage to sing what is in her imagination. Suddenly, a jar of paintbrushes falls off her nightstand and a pool of vibrant color spreads across the floor. Children will enjoy a monkey called Caimito who scurries to help her with his friends, gathering her brushes, paint and canvas as well as all the items that Frida mentioned in her song: fruit, birds, flowers, and butterflies.
Frida is happy and grateful for the monkeys' assistance. In this joy she manages to create a new painting, a triumphant self-portrait with Caimito in her arms.
The book aims to explore the major themes of Kahlo's work and physical pain, enduring love, and steadfastness as well as the symbolism of plants, animals, numbers, and religion, to give young readers a solid foundation for appreciating the artist's works for the rest of their lives.