edition of his now-classic War Horse in this stand-alone short story drawn from the admired collection Singing for Mrs. Former British Children's Laureate Morpurgo reunites with the talented illustrator of the 2004 commemorative U.K. However, younger readers unfamiliar with the artist presented will be surprised by the ending to Morpurgo’s affectionate story of a young boy away from home.Ī sweet slice of life in 1960s Provence.
Is it Cézanne? Savvy readers who note both a distinctly iconic striped shirt and the time period conveyed in Place’s soft and lovely watercolor illustrations will already know it is not Cézanne. When a famous painter comes to their restaurant and Yannick accidentally throws away the drawing he scribbled on the paper tablecloth, he follows him back to his château to ask for another drawing.
He is reluctant to leave Paris, but once his mother tells him that Cézanne loved painting there, Yannick is lured by the prospect of seeing for himself the landscapes that inspired “the greatest painter in the world.” Yannick spends his time in idyllic Provence working in the kitchen, wandering around the beautiful town, and daydreaming of the artist his mother loves so much. When Yannick’s mother becomes ill, he is sent to live with his aunt and uncle at their inn in Provence. It would have spoilt the adventure of discovering it for myself.Grades 2-5. I would say to my father: ‘What does it mean?’ and he would reply: ‘Whatever you feel it means.’ At the time I found that frustrating, but now I’m glad. That’s what made Miró stand out.”įantastical paintings by the Spanish artist Joan Miró had hung on the walls at Farley Farm “as long as I can remember”, says Penrose, “and I was fascinated by them even as a very young child because he painted the things that interested me – animals and farm scenes and so on.
“They were very demonstrative and always bouncing around the place. “The artists they tended to know were rather noisy,” says Antony, now 68. The 18th-century house, with its higgledy-piggledy façade and view over the South Downs, became a gathering place for the leading surrealist and abstract artists of the time, such as Picasso and Man Ray, many of whom Miller had come to know as a young girl when she had lived in Paris during the Twenties. Lucy Davies talks to Michael Morpurgo and Antony Penrose about their books on Cézanne and Miró – written with children in mindĪntony Penrose was two when his parents, the British surrealist Roland Penrose and the American photographer Lee Miller, moved to Farley Farm in East Sussex, in 1949.
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