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A review by kitsuneheart
No Horses in the House!: The Audacious Life of Artist Rosa Bonheur by Mireille Messier
4.0
A delightful true tale, with a lot of timeline liberties. Throughout the book, Rosa Bonheur is portrayed as a young girl, under the age of 10, but the majority of what occurs in this book happened when Rosa was well into her 20s. However, this choice was obviously made so younger readers would identify more with the artist.
When you do a picture book about an artist, you've got a really big challenge on your hands. How do you draw in your own style AND portray the style of the subject artist? But Anna Bron did a wonderful job, here. We don't see a lot of Bonheur's work through Bron's lens, but there's particular focus on "The Horse Fair," and we can see how each figure and post of the original work is filtered through a more cartoonish style. Quite delightful!
A good, quick biography. I only wish there had been a few more of Bonheur's original works reprinted at the end of the book. There's one, but it's TINY, and it's not even "The Horse Fair!"
Advanced reader copy provided by the publisher.
When you do a picture book about an artist, you've got a really big challenge on your hands. How do you draw in your own style AND portray the style of the subject artist? But Anna Bron did a wonderful job, here. We don't see a lot of Bonheur's work through Bron's lens, but there's particular focus on "The Horse Fair," and we can see how each figure and post of the original work is filtered through a more cartoonish style. Quite delightful!
A good, quick biography. I only wish there had been a few more of Bonheur's original works reprinted at the end of the book. There's one, but it's TINY, and it's not even "The Horse Fair!"
Advanced reader copy provided by the publisher.