Especially fun for Washington locals is this lushly illustrated story about a butterfly’s travels through the National Gallery of Art. No ordinary insect, Belle was accidentally dislodged from a 17th-century painting in the museum’s collection. As she journeys, she touches on 300 years of art and acquaints kids with the young subjects of such paintings as Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat, Goya’s Maria Teresa, complete with her fuzzy pet, Renoir’s A Girl with a Watering Can, Picasso’s Le Gourmet and O’Keeffe’s enormous flowers, a “butterfly’s dream come true.” Author/art historian Mary Lee Corlett has a knack for pointing out kid-friendly details in the artwork, which is reproduced skillfully throughout the narrative by Phyllis Saroff and in color photos in the back.
Belle
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A wonderful story with realistic and captivating illustrations; this is the perfect way to introduce children to the world of ‘Fine Art’. The adventure begins when a butterfly, who’d been quietly hovering over a beautiful white poppy in a seventeenth-century Dutch still-life for three hundred years, suddenly finds herself flying out of her painting? Read More…
List Price: 25.00 Sale Price: 21.25 Savings of 15%
DESCRIPTION
A wonderful story with realistic and captivating illustrations; this is the perfect way to introduce children to the world of Fine Art. The adventure begins when a butterfly, who’d been quietly hovering over a beautiful white poppy in a seventeenth-century Dutch still-life for three hundred years, suddenly finds herself flying out of her painting! Accidentally dislodged when the museum staff jostle the canvas, Belle and her sidekick Brimstone must find their way back home. Because they are made of paint, they discover that they can blend into any of the other paintings in the museum. They travel through the galleries, morphing into and out of all the different works of art as they search for their painting. At the same time they must avoid becoming lunch for a hungry bird who having been released from another painting by an awkward bump from Brimstone, is in hot pursuit. Belle is an enthralling adventure through three hundred years of art!
ENDORSEMENTS
“This is a fun way to introduce children to the joy of art” - Dorothy Vogel, American Art Collector
“Dislodged from their masterpiece Belle and her cohort take an adventurous flutter through art history. Belle leads them through danger with determination and charm…a true heroine” Dorothy Lichtenstein, President of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
“This lovely book provides readers with a wonderfully whimsical tour” Toby Tannenbaun, Assistant Director for Education, J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
“Belle is a delicious invitation to see the great National Gallery through the eyes of a butterfly –and to travel, literally, inside various works of art. The idea is a delight for any age!” - Blue Balliett, Award winning children’s book novelist
REVIEW
via The Write Game (c) 2011 – “There are books and then there are beautiful books. Here is one of those beauties. And the title says so right up front. Please welcome Mary Lee Corlett and Belle to the Write Game.” … Read More
Mary Quattlebaum, Washington Parent (c) 2012 – “Especially fun for Washington locals is this lushly illustrated story about a butterfly’s travels through the National Gallery of Art. No ordinary insect, Belle was accidentally dislodged from a 17th-century painting in the museum’s collection. As she journeys, she touches on 300 years of art and acquaints kids with the young subjects of such paintings as Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat, Goya’s Maria Teresa…” Read More
PRODUCT DETAILS
Hardcover: 56 pages, 30 color photos, 60 color illustrations ISBN-13: 978-1-59373-084-0 Language: English
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mary Lee Corlett is an art historian and a research associate at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Phyllis Saroff is an artist whose work has appeared in books and magazines and her paintings of wildlife are used in outdoor displays in wildlife management areas across the country. She lives in Annapolis, MD.
Phyllis Saroff is an artist whose work has appeared in books and magazines and her paintings of wildlife are used in outdoor displays in wildlife management areas across the country. She lives in Annapolis, MD.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Belle
List Price: $25.00 Sale Price: $21.25 Savings of 15 %
A wonderful story with realistic and captivating illustrations; this is the perfect way to introduce children to the world of ‘Fine Art’. The adventure begins when a butterfly, who’d been quietly hovering over a beautiful white poppy in a seventeenth-century Dutch still-life for three hundred years, suddenly finds herself flying out of her painting? Read More…
Mary Lee Corlett is an art historian and a research associate at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Belle
List Price: $25.00
Sale Price: $21.25
Savings of 15 %
A wonderful story with realistic and captivating illustrations; this is the perfect way to introduce children to the world of ‘Fine Art’. The adventure begins when a butterfly, who’d been quietly hovering over a beautiful white poppy in a seventeenth-century Dutch still-life for three hundred years, suddenly finds herself flying out of her painting? Read More…
The Green Garden and its cover: Grace won over Green. It is going to be a classic look. I liked the original but perhaps more for the conceit than the result so all’s well, author’s happy, one less moving part to worry about. Here it is:
Belle
The color proofs for Belle: The amazing Astonishing Magical Journey of an Artfully Painted Lady. They are everything we wanted and have been packed off to the author before going back to the printer with a few minor comments. The printer in Hong Kong is getting restless and wants to know how many to print. Scary stuff – overstocks and too many returns loom through the haze of enthusiasm and optimism. Ordering paper has also become an issue what with all the Japanese paper mills disrupted by the crisis over there. Have to tell them this week. The calculator is getting hot. Here is where the adventure starts (in the book I mean).
Sometimes the moving parts move about of their own accord. Next year we are publishing a monumental (in more ways than one) study of English Armor in the 15th century: The Armour of the English Knight (note the English as opposed to American spelling, noblesse oblige!). Author now wants the book split into two volumes and to publish volume two first. Makes absolute sense if you know what I mean. There’s more to this than meets the eye.
“Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,
Our bending author hath pursued the story…”
As the Bard opined, but we digress. We will return to this in time!
At the risk of extending the moving part metaphor to breaking point my desk and computer screen can look like a mechanic’s bench as I try and resist taking a monkey wrench to an awkward contract or over-inking a sales blurb in red marginal screams. I work in piles of paper old style. It is the season for Fixits as we move into full gear for the fall list.
As in the wall list above the bench:
Intro to our web catalogue not strong enough: Fixit
Contract for our amazing The Very Scary Monster has scary clause: Fixit
Sales need sales material yesterday: Fixit
Two more bookshops want events with Henry Homeyer for his Organic Gardening (not just) in the North East: Fixit. Can’t: Henry’s boondoggling down the Grand Canyon for some Travel Magazine. Alright for some…(note to self: remind him to Tweet next time)
Rep’s Tipsheet for one of the fall titles has gone missing: redo from scratch argggh!
