Should you have trouble posting, please contact Thanks. Illustrations copyright © 2021 by Mary GrandPré and reproduced by permission of the publisher, Alfred A. Text copyright © 2021 by Barb Rosenstock. This man,Ĭlaude Monet, is rich, famous around the world. “He wakes to shadows the color of steeped tea, swings his sturdy legs from bed, buttons his pants, shrugs up suspenders, streches a shirt over his broad belly, laces thick feet into tough boots, and grabs a battered felt hat on the way downstairs. Here’s the Q&A, and below is another spread from the book. But not just any art: a new way of seeing that came to be. He rejected a traditional life laid out clean and smooth before him. Claude Monet is one of the world's most beloved artists-and he became famous during his own lifetime. It’s a beautifully crafted book, filled with vivid sensory language and richly imagined acrylic illustrations. A new picture book about the iconic artist Claude Monet, from the Caldecott-Award winning team that created The Noisy Paint Box. It’s a nonfiction picture book, as Barb notes in our Q&A, that begins and ends in four hours and captures Claude Monet one morning (3:30 AM, no less) “on his way to work.” And “work” is painting, from his rowboat (his “studio boat”), on the Seine. A new picture book about the iconic artist Claude Monet, from the Caldecott-Award. Over at BookPage, I’ve a Q&A with author Barb Rosenstock and illustrator Mary GrandPré about their newest collaboration, Mornings with Monet (Knopf, March 2021). Mornings with Monet By Barb Rosenstock illustrated by Mary GrandPre.

Why would you paint on a boat? How do you paint on a boat? I soon realized that Monet’s childhood would bore children, because it was boring me! When I asked myself what I thought a young reader would find interesting, the answer was the boat. “Once I began focusing on Monet, I kept writing drafts that started in his childhood, which is a typical way to connect a young reader to historical biography.

Mornings with Monet by Barb Rosenstock