Amy Guglielmo
Amy Guglielmo is co-author of the Christopher award-winning POCKET FULL OF COLORS: The Magical World of Mary Blair Disney Artist Extraordinaire (Atheneum 2017) and How to Build a Hug: Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine (Atheneum 2018) with co-author Jacqueline Tourville, and GOODNIGHT, STARRY NIGHT (Cartwheel 2019), LOVE (Cartwheel 2020), and the TOUCH THE ART series (Sterling 2006, 2010) with Julie Appel!
She has also written CEZANNE'S PARROT (Putnam 2020) a picture book biography about artist Paul Cézanne, known as the father of modern art, who taught his pet parrot to say, “Cézanne is a great painter,” with illustrations by Brett Helquist. JUST BEING DALI, with illustrations by Brett Helquist is coming in 2021!
Amy currently teaches high school art in the Adirondacks and is the co-founder of Outside Art: The Plattsburgh Public Art Project. She was a finalist for the 2014 Katherine Patterson Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing and is represented by Stephen Barbara at InkWell Management. Amy lives on the Adirondack Coast of Lake Champlain with her husband, where she likes to do water sports just as long as she doesn't get her hair wet.
For more info check out: www.amyguglielmo.com
ISBN 978-0525515081
CEZANNE'S PARROT (Putnam 2020) with illustrations by Brett Helquist. An inspiring picture book biography of the artist Paul Cezanne, the painter who laid the groundwork for modern art and whom Pablo Picasso declared "the father of us all."All Cezanne wants is to be a great painter like his friends Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir. But when he shows his works, the professors, the critics, and the collectors all dismiss him: "Too flat!" "Too much paint!" "These are rough and unfinished!" Even his own pet parrot, Bisou, can't be brought to say, "Cezanne is a great painter!" And who can blame them? Cezanne doesn't care about tradition, and he doesn't follow the rules. He's painting in a way no one else has done before, creating something completely new--and he's destined to change the world of art forever. Cezanne's Parrot is a spirited celebration of creativity, determination, and perseverance--and the artist who would become known as the father of modern art.