Leonardo's Horse
10 best books like Leonardo's Horse (Jean Fritz): Colorful Dreamer: The Story of Artist Henri Matisse, The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau, Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder, Leonardo and the Flying Boy, Handel, Who Knew What He Liked, Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England, A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution, Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein, From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World
| Author | Marjorie Blain Parker |
| ISBN | 0803737580 |
An inspiring portrait of one of the world's most loved artists
There was once a boy named Henri, whose dreams were full of color even though his hometown was dreary and gray. His parents expected him to learn a trade when he grew up, but being a law clerk bored him, and he continued to dream of a colorful,...
The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
| Author | Peter Sís |
| ISBN | 0374380694 |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in France in 1900, when airplanes were just being invented. Antoine dreamed of flying and grew up to be a pilot—and that was when his adventures began. He found a job delivering mail by plane, which had never been done before. He and his fellow pilots traveled to faraway...
The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau
| Author | Michelle Markel |
| ISBN | 0802853641 |
Henri Rousseau wanted to be an artist. But he had no formal training. Instead, he taught himself to paint. He painted until the jungles and animals and distant lands in his head came alive on the space of his canvases. Henri Rousseau endured the harsh critics of his day and created the brilliant paintings...
| Author | Tanya Lee Stone |
| ISBN | 0670062685 |
As a boy, Alexander (Sandy) Calder was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older and became an artist, his fiddling led him to create wire sculptures. One day, Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between...
| Author | Laurence Anholt |
| ISBN | 0764152254 |
There were no spaceships or airplanes when Zoro was a boy. He lived in Italy during the era we now call the Renaissance, a time when the sky belonged to the birds. But one unusual man dreamed of incredible flying machines. "One day, Zoro," he told his pupil, "people will sail through the clouds and look down...
| Author | M.T. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0763625620 |
George Frideric Handel was not your everyday eighteenth-century composer. And in a manner befitting its subject, this witty, rigorously researched, and accessible biography captures Handel's essential spirit — from a child who smuggled a clavichord into the attic to make music against his father's...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0688179614 |
She was a queen whose strong will, shrewd diplomacy, religious tolerance and great love for her subjects won the hearts of her people and the admiration of her enemies.
Elizabeth was born into an age of religious strife, in which plots and factions were everywhere and private beliefs could...
| Author | Betsy Maestro |
| ISBN | 0688101925 |
With accurate historical information, this easy-to-understand book tells why and how the Constitution of the United States was created. A More Perfect Union includes a map and back matter with a table of dates and a summary of the Articles of the Constitution.
"A simple, attractive, informative...
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 0618492984 |
When he was born in 1879, Albert was a peculiarly fat baby with an unusually big and misshaped head. When he was older, he hit his sister, frustrated his teachers, and had few friends. But Albert’s strange childhood also included his brilliant capacity for puzzles and problem solving: the mystery...
| Author | James Rumford |
| ISBN | 1596435429 |
What was made of rags and bones, soot and seeds? What took a mountain to make?
For the answer, travel back to the fifteenth century—to a time when books were made by hand and a man named Johannes Gutenberg invented a way to print books with movable type.
Written as a series of riddles and illustrated...
| Author | Aliki |
| ISBN | 0064437221 |
From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night′s Dream, Shakespeare′s celebrated works have touched people around the world.
Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to...
Now in many ways Bruce Robertson's Marguerite Makes a Book does a truly wonderful job with both meticulous detail and engagement showing and demonstrating how a hand-painted (illuminated) Mediaeval book is (or more to the point how such a tome generally was) created, was made (and indeed also why these...
| Author | Joseph D'Agnese |
| ISBN | 0805063056 |
As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead.
When Leonardo grew up and traveled the world, he was inspired by the numbers used in different countries. Then he realized that many things in...
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 0439357918 |
The pioneering team that brought you the Caldecott Honor-winning THE DINOSAURS OF WATERHOUSE HAWKINS focuses their remarkable skills and vision on Walt Whitman--poet, American, Civil War hero.
Did you know that poet Walt Whitman was also a Civil War nurse? Devastated by his country dividing...
| Author | James Mayhew |
| ISBN | 1860397069 |
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When Katie's grandmother falls asleep during one of their museum visits Katie starts talking to the Mona...
A Coretta Scott King Honor Award author offers a fresh look at this pioneering American innovator
Shampoo from peanuts? Wallpaper from clay? Ink from sweet potatoes? Discover Carver's imagination and inspiration in this one-of-a-kind biography.
With imagination and intellect,...
| Author | Cheryl Bardoe |
| ISBN | 0810954753 |
The only picture book available about the father of genetics and his pea plants!
How do mothers and fathers—whether they are apple trees, sheep, or humans—pass down traits to their children? This question fascinated Gregor Mendel throughout his life. Regarded as the world’s first...
| Author | Matt Tavares |
| ISBN | 0763668230 |
Applaud Matt Tavares’s latest feat — a gripping tale of real-life daredevilry perfectly balanced by stunning illustrations.
"Monsieur Blondin is to cross Niagara Falls this afternoon, or perish in the attempt." — Troy Daily Times, June 30, 1859
When the Great Blondin announced...
| Author | Bonnie Christensen |
| ISBN | 0375867538 |
Acclaimed author-illustrator Bonnie Christensen adopts the voice of Galileo and lets him tell his own tale in this outstanding picture book biography. The first person narration gives this book a friendly, personal feel that makes Galileo's remarkable achievements and ideas completely accessible...
The Boy on Fairfield Street
| Author | Kathleen Krull |
| ISBN | 0375822984 |
Award-winning author Kathleen Krull zeros in on the formative first 22 years of the life of Ted Geisel. This is the first picture book biography of Dr. Seuss, written especially for his young fans who want to know what made him tick. The animals in the zoo that his father ran and his fondness for drawing...
John's Secret Dreams: The Life of John Lennon
| Author | Doreen Rappaport |
| ISBN | 0786808179 |
This book is a wonderful introduction to John Lennon and the Beattles for kids who have never heard of them or wonder what they are about. Part of my niece and nephew is there musical education and they can name all 4 members of the band and songs too.
I thought the art was amazing and it fit so well...
