This book offers a lavish introduction to 35 of the world's best-known, best-loved paintings. It includes the "Mona Lisa", "Girl with a Pearl Earring", Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" and "The Scream". Simple and engaging text gives fascinating information about each painting, artist and art style. It is beautifully presented with fabulous reproductions of the paintings and internet links to websites to find out more.

 

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Jostein Gaarder wrote one of the great bestsellers of the nineties in SOPHIE'S WORLD, which has sold over 16 million copies in nearly 50 languages. He is Norwegian and lives in Oslo with his wife and two teenage sons. Philip Hopman is Dutch and has illustrated many books for children.