Camille and the Sunflowers


Title: Camille and the Sunflowers
Author: Laurence Anholt
Illustrator: Laurence Anholt
Type: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: K-6th
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
Date of Publication: 1994
ISBN: 978-0812064094

Synopsis: Camille encounters a stranger one day; a man with a straw hat and a yellow beard.  To make him feel welcome, Camille picks sunflowers for his room.  The man paints pictures of Camille's family (the paintings depicted in the book are the real paintings painted by Vincent Van Gogh).  When Camille shares the paintings with his friends, they laugh.  The townspeople run the painter out of town.  When Camille goes to his room to look for him, he finds a painting of sunflowers.


Possible Teaching Points: 1) art history, 2) Vincent Van Gogh

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