The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art

Author Barb Rosenstock Illustrated by Mary GrandPre

For Ages
4 to 8

A Caldecott Honor Book

Vasya Kandinsky was a proper little boy: he studied math and history, he practiced the piano, he sat up straight and was perfectly polite. And when his family sent him to art classes, they expected him to paint pretty houses and flowers—like a proper artist.
 
But as Vasya opened his paint box and began mixing the reds, the yellows, the blues, he heard a strange sound—the swirling colors trilled like…

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