Kid Artists: True Tales of Childhood from Creative Legends

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

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Jacob Lawrence

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Vincent van Gogh

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Pablo Picasso

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Frida Kahlo

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Beatrix Potter

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Yoko Ono

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Dr. Seuss

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Emily Carr

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Keith Haring

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Charles Schulz

, and

Louise Nevelson

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