Georgia Rises: A Day in the Life of Georgia O'Keeffe
CCBC Review:
Kathryn Lasky emphasizes artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s affinity for and awareness of color, shape, and form in a picture book that imagines a day in O’Keeffe’s later life. Georgia rises early and takes a walk near her desert home. “A bone gleaming white sits pretty as angel wings just ahead… The sky is finally lavender, so pale it’s almost transparent, like the eyelids of babies. The shapes are so simple—the wings of this bone reach up for the moon.” Illustrator Ora Eitan references but doesn’t try to mimic the style of O’Keeffe’s own work, emphasizing color, with the vivid whiteness of the artist’s hair always one of the focal points of each page in this quietly captivating volume. ©2009 Cooperative Children's Book Center
Illustrated by Ora Eitan
CCBC Age Recommendation: Ages 6-9
Age Range:
PreK-Early Elementary (Ages 4-7)
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-10)
Formats:
Biography, Autobiography and Memoir
Picture book
Subjects:
20th Century
Art and Artists
Biography
U.S. History
Publishers:
Farrar Straus Giroux, Melanie Kroupa Books
Publish Year: 2009
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9780374325299
CCBC Location: Non-Fiction, 920 O'Keeffe