Leonardo and the flying boy : a story about Leonardo da Vinci / by Laurence Anholt.

By: Anholt, Laurence [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Anholt, Laurence. Anholt's artists ; Copyright date: ©2000Publisher: London : Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, 2016Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 30 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781847808165Subject(s): Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Juvenile fiction | Flight -- Juvenile fiction | Inventions -- Juvenile fictionSummary: PICTURE STORYBOOKS. Part of the highly-successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters, which tells the stories of real meetings between world-famous artists and the children who knew them. Zoro is the young pupil of the amazing painter, sculptor, scientist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. Every day he works hard in Leonardo's workshop, mixing colours, cleaning paintbrushes and practising his drawings. But he is never allowed inside the secret locked room, where Leonardo spends hours hammering and sawing at a mysterious invention. One day Leonardo brings a mischievous boy named Salai to work for him. He is so intrigued by the secret room that he steals the keys to find out what is inside...Leonardo and the Flying Boy provides an exciting introduction to the great genius of the Italian Renaissance, with reproductions of Leonardo's own work. Ages 0+
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Includes a fact page about Leonardo.

PICTURE STORYBOOKS. Part of the highly-successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters, which tells the stories of real meetings between world-famous artists and the children who knew them. Zoro is the young pupil of the amazing painter, sculptor, scientist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. Every day he works hard in Leonardo's workshop, mixing colours, cleaning paintbrushes and practising his drawings. But he is never allowed inside the secret locked room, where Leonardo spends hours hammering and sawing at a mysterious invention. One day Leonardo brings a mischievous boy named Salai to work for him. He is so intrigued by the secret room that he steals the keys to find out what is inside...Leonardo and the Flying Boy provides an exciting introduction to the great genius of the Italian Renaissance, with reproductions of Leonardo's own work. Ages 0+

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