Pocket Full of Colors
The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire
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- $10.99
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Publisher Description
Amy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville, and Brigette Barrager team up to tell the joyful and unique story of the trailblazing Disney artist Mary Blair.
Mary Blair lived her life in color: vivid, wild color.
From her imaginative childhood to her career as an illustrator, designer, and animator for Walt Disney Studios, Mary wouldn’t play by the rules. At a time when studios wanted to hire men and think in black and white, Mary painted twinkling emerald skies, peach giraffes with tangerine spots, and magenta horses that could fly.
She painted her world.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The aesthetic of artist Mary Blair has had an outsize impact on the children's book world, and now her life story gets its own book. Throughout, Guglielmo (the Touch the Art series) and Tourville (Albie's First Word) emphasize the sexism and artistic pushback Blair faced and her unabashed love of color: "On her first day of work , the men in charge didn't want to talk about cerulean or celadon or cerise." Barrager (Uni the Unicorn) laces her vibrant images with visual references to Blair's memorable work for such films as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. An effervescent tribute that doesn't sugarcoat Blair's path to success. Ages 4 8. Author's)
