Grant and Tillie Go Walking

"Inspired by the life of artist Grant Wood, this is [an] ... imagined story of the great American painter and a cow named Tillie. ... Mixing fact with fiction, Monica Kulling's text explores the making of an artist, while Sydney Smith's illustrations echo Grant Wood's own techniques"--Dust jacket flap.

About the author

MONICA KULLING iis the author of more than sixty books for children, including Aunt Pearl, illustrated by Irene Luxbacher; and Ruby¿s Hope: A Story of How the Famous ¿Migrant Mother¿ Photograph Became the Face of the Great Depression, illustrated by Sarah Dvojak. She has written the popular Great Idea series, and her work has been nominated for many awards, including numerous Silver Birch Express and Golden Oak awards and the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children¿s Non-Fiction. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Summary

Grant Wood believed that to be a real artist, he had to live in Paris. But once he got there, he realized that to be a great painter he needed to return to the people and places—and even animals—that he knew and loved the best.
Inspired by the life of artist Grant Wood, this is the sensitively imagined story of the great American painter and a cow named Tillie. Skillfully mixing fact with fiction, Monica Kulling’s text explores the making of an artist, while Sydney Smith’s illustrations echo Grant Wood’s own techniques. The result is a gently wise picture book that will encourage young readers and artists to trust the love that is sometimes only found close to home.
Includes an author’s note that provides biographical information about Grant Wood.

Additional text

"I realized that all the really good ideas I’d ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. So I went back to Iowa." — Grant Wood

Product details

• Authors: Monica Kulling, Kulling Monica
• Assisted by: Sydney Smith (Illustration)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 4
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781554984466
• ISBN: 978-1-55498-446-6
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 260 mm x 206 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 411 g
• Illustrations: Color illustrations throughout
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Biographical / United States, JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Cows, United States of America, USA, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Science & Nature / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Art, JUVENILE FICTION / Places / United States