October 5, 2007, Newsletter Issue #174: Frogs and Kittens, Monet and Degas

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Joan Sweeney´s first Impressionist-centered picture book, "Once Upon a Lily Pad: Froggy Love in Monet´s Garden," won the acclaim of many critics. Her effortlessly beautiful follow-up is titled, "Bijou, Bonbon and Beau: The Kittens Who Danced for Degas."

In both books, Sweeney opens up a painter´s world through fictional critters who fit themselves into an artist´s life and work. Bijou, Bonbon, and Beau are kittens born in the Paris theater where Degas made his well-known sketches and paintings of dancers.

Leslie Wu provides illustrations influenced by the Impressionists in all the best ways, and her kittens are miniature works of art.

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