Team Up: Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera

by Francesca Ferretti de Blonay, Tania Garcia (Illustrator)

Overview

• All kinds of couples, all kinds of relationships, just one focus: a shared talent.
• This series looks at the magic that can happen when two talents meet and work together to do inspiring things, in a more in-depth version of the bestselling series Little People Big Dreams.
• A beautiful and powerful message of kinship, friendship and togetherness to inspire the whole family.
• The perfect introductory biography picture book series for young readers.
• Written by Francesca Ferretti de Blonay, a Swiss historian who specializes in teaching history to children, and illustrated by different artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781914519833
Publisher:	Welbeck Publishing Group Limited
Publication date:	10/24/2023
Pages:	44
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.42(h) x (d)
Age Range:	8 - 14 Years

About the Author

Francesca Ferretti de Blonay is a Swiss historian who specialises in teaching history to children.

Tania Garcia (@taniagrt on IG - 10K followers) is an illustrator and pattern designer based in Barcelona. Together or Alone is her first book. Her work has been published in magazines such as Origin.

Editorial Reviews

2023-05-09
The lives of artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are condensed and stylized into a pictorial biography in this translated title from Spain.

The historical context in which Kahlo and Rivera worked, redolent of new freedoms in post-dictatorship Mexico, is glossed over, and for readers to be denied more than a teasing glimpse at this rich cultural shift is somewhat frustrating. Rather more attention is paid to tracing the lives, careers, and thematic signatures of both artists as individuals. Kahlo’s desire to escape the confines of her earthly self through art is gently juxtaposed with Rivera’s expansive, revolutionary ideals, but these underlying complexities, too, are given short shrift, as are the nuances of their eventual partnership. The text hints at explosive passion, mutual respect and admiration, and a balance of independence and artistic symbiosis that cannot be contained within this format, which comes across almost as the elevator pitch to a much more developed story. Some of their contemporaries are introduced along with notable events and figures of the time. Where this book excels is in its illustrations, which imbue the figures depicted with all of the vibrant, eccentric verve that their real-life counterparts carried. Several pages include quotes from each artist, but no sources are provided for them or for any of the facts presented.

A lackluster attempt at introducing readers to two extraordinary partners. (glossary, timeline) (Nonfiction. 12-18)

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