9781760296988

Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth

Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth
larger imageMove mouse over the image to magnify
Anna Fienberg
NZ $21.99
Qty.

A sweetly moving story about friendship and finding happiness, for readers who loved Wonder and Lenny's Book of Everything.

SHORT-LISTED: 2024 CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers
SHORT-LISTED: 2024 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature 
 
Frances is in a new house in a new neighbourhood and going to a new school, but no amount of new can make her forget the old, sad secret dragging at her heart. Not the pictures of bacteria that she draws with painstaking precision, not even Picasso, the puppy with the long soft ears and the cute black circle like a target on his bottom. Then Frances meets Kit, the tall, quiet boy with the two-coloured eyes. Kit is a real artist. His coloured pencils fill page after page of exercise books. He sees wonder in the rocks and ferns and sky. Though Kit has worries of his own.
 
But when secrets are spilled, Frances's life turns grey and drab. Not even Picasso's wet nose can brighten her up. Frances and Kit will need to face the truth of their pasts to find colour in their world again. After all, don't the most brilliant sunsets need a cloudy sky?
 
A beautiful novel about finding the remarkable in the ordinary and celebrating the wonder of every day, from the award-winning author of Borrowed Light.

You might also be interested in ...