Young Camille befriends a strange visitor to his small town, and one day he brings this man a gift of bright, beautiful sunflowers. The man is the artist Vincent van Gogh, and the sunflowers quickly become the subject of a magnificent painting. This is a title in Barron's Anholt's Artists Books for Children series, in which author and illustrator Laurence Anholt recalls memorable and sometimes amusing moments when the lives of the artists were touched by children. Anholt's fine illustrations appear on every page and include reproductions of works by the artists.

 

This book is part of a book series called Anholts Artists .

This book has been graded for interest at 6-9 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Barron's Educational Series .

Around half of the Anholts' titles are illustrated by Catherine, including the Chimp and Zee serie