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A children's version of the Lives of Artists by Vassari with many Illustrations. Of course we won't be able to show the paintings but the descriptions and the anecdotes are interesting and may lead a child to further interest. STORIES OF THE ITALIAN PAINTERS
BY AMY STEEDMAN AUTHOR OF 'IN GOD'S GARDEN' TO FRANCESCA ABOUT THIS BOOK What would we do without our picture books, I wonder? Before we knew
how to read, before even we could speak, we had learned to love them.
We shouted with pleasure when we turned the pages and saw the spotted
cow standing in the daisy sprinkled meadow, the foolish looking old
sheep with her gambolling lambs, the wise dog with his friendly eyes.
They were all real friends to us. Then a little later on, when we began to ask for stories about the
pictures, how we loved them more and more. There was the little girl in
the red cloak talking to the great grey wolf with the wicked eyes; the
cottage with the bright pink roses climbing round the lattice window,
out of which jumped a little maid with golden hair, followed by the
great big bear, the middle sized bear, and the tiny bear. Truly those
stories were a great joy to us, but we would never have loved them
quite so much if we had not known their pictured faces as well. Do you ever wonder how all these pictures came to be made? They had a
beginning, just as everything else had, but the beginning goes so far
back that we can scarcely trace it... Continue reading book >>
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