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Great Lives in Graphics series this is a beautiful hardback featuring a visual snapshot and fascinating facts about the creator of the Mona Lisa. Opening the doors to the whole world of Da Vinci and the breadth of his creations, this is a joyful journey through his life and all of his accomplishments as an artist, as an engineer, as a scientist and as an inventor.
From his destiny to create fantastic flying machines (he produced over 500 sketches and 35,000 words to do with flying); through to his obsession with how the body worked (he cut up at least 30 bodies), to his incredible artistic talent (he began the most famous painting in the world more than 500 years ago), this book celebrates them all.
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Great Lives in Graphics: Leonardo Da Vinci Synopsis
Great Lives in Graphics: Leonardo Da Vinci is a graphic retelling of Leonardo's story that gives children a colourful snapshot of his life and the world in which he grew up while educating them on everything from the Renaissance to the magic of creativity.
You may already know that Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, but did you know he had dyslexia? Or that Bill Gates paid $30 million for one of his old notebooks? 250+ fascinating facts about painter, inventor, engineer, and architect Leonardo Da Vinci An accessible format for young readers Fact-packed infographics capture critical information Built-in colour-coded biography
The Great Lives in Graphics series reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolour, presenting 250+ biographical facts in a new and exciting way. It takes the important dates and achievements of each person's life, mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia, and uses infographics to show them in a fresh visual way that genuinely engages children and young adults. The result is a colourful, fascinating and often surprising representation of that person's life, work and legacy. Using timelines, maps, repeated motifs and many more beautiful and informative illustrations, readers learn about the book's primary subject and the cultural background of the time in which they lived.
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9781787081123 |
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7th May 2024 |
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Button Books |
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Hardback |
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32 pages |
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Great Lives in Graphics |
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