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Dan's Angel
A Detective's Guide to the Language of Painting
By Sturgis, Alexander & Child, Lauren
- ISBN
- 978-1-92913-247-8
- Publisher
- Kane/Miller Book Publishers
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2003
Gr 1-4 Dan skateboards to a museum, and goes in to see paintings "-full of strange and beautiful things." While he senses that some had stories to tell, he realizes, "You can't read paintings like you can read books." A voice tells him otherwise: it's Fra Angelico's Angel Gabriel, who flies out of The Annunciation and accompanies the boy through the galleries. From Sandro Botticelli (whose sleeping Mars and watchful Venus show the power of love over w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
