Gifts from Georgia's Garden

Gifts from Georgia's Garden

by Lisa Robinson and Hadley Hooper
Epub (Kobo - Fixed Layout), Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 19/03/2024

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Come behind the scenes of Georgia O’Keeffe’s famous flower paintings to her sustainable homestead in New Mexico, where art was everything and everything was art.


Most of us have heard the name Georgia O’Keeffe— she’s one of the most famous women in art history. But did you know that for most of her life, she lived on her own land in New Mexico, grew her own food, bought locally, and even made her own clothing?


Georgia’s garden and her art fed and enriched one another, just as her bean plants enriched the soil and her home-grown feasts fed her friends. In spite of the era’s prejudice against female artists, Georgia lived and thrived in her verdant sanctuary well into old age.


Soothing and inspiring, Gifts from Georgia’s Garden illuminates the life and philosophy of a figure every child should know. Backmatter adds context to O’Keeffe’s story and invites families to try out her sustainable gardening techniques— and her pecan butterball cookies.


Gifts for Georgia’s Garden is the latest in Lisa Robinson’s collection of thoughtful, artfully-told picture book biographies on figures who broke the mold and made history because of it. Hadley Hooper, a painter in her own right and the illustrator of books about Matisse (The Iridescence of Birds) and Giacometti (Two Brothers, Four Hands), perfectly evokes Georgia O’Keeffe’s style with pictures that burst with color and life.

ISBN:
9780823457557
9780823457557
Category:
Gardening (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo - Fixed Layout), Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
19-03-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Holiday House
Lisa Robinson

Lisa Robinson is a child psychiatrist, children's book author, and ice cream lover (her favorite Ben & Jerry's flavor is Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch). She lives in Massachusetts with her family and three cats, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, and Paprika-the Spice Cats. Favorite household flavors are Cherry Garcia, Chip Happens, and Justice ReMix'd. Lisa is also the author of several fiction and nonfiction picture books.

Hadley Hooper

Hadley Hooper is an illustrator and painter. Her 2014 book, The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse by Patricia MacLachlan, was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book. She lives in Denver with her partner, Hugh, and dog, Maddie.

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