Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico in 1907. This is the story of how she learned to paint, how painting saved her life, and why her paintings are like no-one else's. Like Frida's art, this is a work of the imagination, but it is also true.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd .

Jonah Winter is a poet and painter as well as a children's book author. His first picture book about Diego Rivera, Diego, was named as one of 100 best American children's books of the 20th century by Amazon. com. Ana Juan's witty, dream-like paintings have appeared on book and album jackets, film festival posters and in numerous magazines. Jonah Winter is the author of Barack , Dizzy , Diego , and Atheneum's own Sonia Sotomayor , and Roberto Clemente , to name a few. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.