Casa Azul (17 page)
Authors: Laban Carrick Hill
Readers can learn more about Frida Kahlo’s life from:
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
, by Hayden Herrera (New York: Perrenial, 2002).
Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish
, by Martha Zamora (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990).
Frida Kahlo: The Paintings
, by Hayden Herrera (New York: Perrenial, 2002).
Frida’s Fiestas: Recipes and Reminiscences of Life with Frida Kahlo
, by Marie Pierre Colle and Guadalupe Rivera (New York: Clarkson Potter, 1994).
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
, by Carlos Fuentes (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998).
Look for the teacher’s guide to
Casa Azul
at
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WHERE TO SEE THE WORK OF FRIDA KAHLO: MUSEUMS AND WEBSITES
Albright-Knox Art Gallery 1285 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, New York 14222-1096 Telephone 716.882.8700 Fax 716.882.1958
www.albrightknox.org
National Museum of Women in the Arts 1250 New York Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20005-3970 202-783-5000, 1-800-222-7270
www.nmwa.org
ArtNet
www.artnet.com
Artchive
www.artchive.com
Phoenix Art Museum 1625 N. Central Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85004 (602) 257-1222
www.phxart.org
The Spirit Catchers
:
An Encounter with Georgia O’Keeffe
by Kathleen Kudlinski
Like thousands of other Americans during the Great Depression, Parker Ray finds himself homeless and desperate. Now all signs—from his thirst-induced hallucinations to the inhospitable force of nature, Georgia O’Keeffe—tell him that something in the desert is out to get him.
“Kudlinski evokes the extremes of desert life, from desolation to sun-baked beauty, and then depicts the environment’s mesmerizing effect on her characters … There are enough surprises to keep the pages turning … The notion of ‘spirit’ is woven effectively into a variety of contexts …” —
School Library Journal
“Kudlinski succeeds amazingly at helping her readers look, really look, at the art of Georgia O’Keeffe.”—Sam Sebasta, Ph.D., College of Education, University of Washington “… the plot takes off partly on the strength of Kudlinski’s … portrait of O’Keeffe.”—
Kirkus Reviews
“….he overwhelming feeling at the end is that the reader is ‘inside the art, free to comment, and encouraged to experiment.”’—The Historical Novel Society
Hardcover ISBN: 0-8230-0408-2
Price: $15.95
Smoking Mirror: An Encounter with Paul Gauguin
Douglas Rees
T
he White Wolf killed his best friend. Now Joe Sloan seeks revenge. As he navigates the unknown territory of 1891 Tahiti and its people, he finds an unlikely ally in the French artist Paul Gauguin.
Hardcover ISBN: 0-8230-4863-2
Price: $15.95
The Wedding
:
An Encounter with Jan van Eyck
E. M. Rees
I
n fifteenth-century Belgium, young Giovanna Cenami resists an arranged marriage in favor of true love. Who wouldn’t choose a handsome and valiant youth over a seemingly dull merchant ten years her senior? Or is there more than meets the eye?
Hardcover ISBN: 0-8230-0407-4 Price: $15.95
Senior Editor: Jacqueline Ching
Editor: Laaren Brown
Production Manager: Hector Campbell
Copyright © 2005 by Laban Carrick Hill
First published in 2005 in the United States by Watson-Guptill Publications, a division of VNU Business Media, Inc., 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
www.wgpub.com
Excerpt on p. 92 from
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
. Introduction by Carlos Fuentes; essay and commentaries by Sarah M. Lowe (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001), pp. 231-2
Chapter art from
Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico
by Jorge Enciso, Dover Publications, Inc., copyright 1947.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hill, Laban Carrick.
Casa Azul / by Laban Carrick Hill.
p. cm.
Summary: In 1940, after traveling from their country village to Mexico City to find their mother, fourteen-year-old Maria and her younger brother Victor are befriended by the artist Frida Kahlo and the talking animals and household objects that inhabit her home.
eISBN: 978-0-307-87503-7
1. Kahlo, Frida—Juvenile fiction. [1. Kahlo, Frida—Fiction. 2. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 3. Mexico City (Mexico)—History—20th century—Fiction. 4. Animals—Fiction. 5. Artists—Fiction. 6. Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957—Fiction. 7. Mexico—History—1910-1946—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H55286Cas 2005
[Fic]—dc22
2004023300
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