The Artist who Painted a Blue Horse

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 2011 - Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages

A brilliant new Eric Carle picture book for the artist in us all

Every child has an artist inside them, and this vibrant picture book from Eric Carle will help let it out. The artist in this book paints the world as he sees it, just like a child. There's a red crocodile, an orange elephant, a purple fox and a polka-dotted donkey. More than anything, there's imagination. Filled with some of the most magnificently colorful animals of Eric Carle's career, this tribute to the creative life celebrates the power of art.

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Review: The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse

User Review  - Kathryn - Goodreads

2 STARS for the story (mostly for the illustrations, actually) but an additional star for the biographical information provided at the end. I was very disappointed in this book, I'm afraid. I really ...

Review: The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse

User Review  - Mark - Goodreads

Eric Carle was born in the United States in 1929 but spent his boyhood in Germany. At that time, the repressive Nazi regime forbade creating or displaying modern, expressionistic or abstract art ...

About the author

Eric Carle lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Visit the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Artist who Painted a Blue Horse
• Illustrated by: Eric Carle
• Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 2011
• ISBN: 0399257136, 9780399257131
• Length: 32 pages
• Subjects: Art / General; Juvenile Fiction / Animals / General; Juvenile Fiction / Art & Architecture; Juvenile Fiction / Concepts / Colors; Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / General