{"product_id":"bloom-a-story-of-fashion-designer-elsa-schiaparelli-isbn-9780062447616","title":"Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA dazzling picture book biography of one of the world's most influential designers, Elsa Schiaparelli.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eElsa dared to be different, and her story will not only dazzle, it will inspire the artist and fashionista in everyone who reads it. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. It’s a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the 1930s Elsa Schiaparelli had captivated the fashion world in Paris, but before that, she was a little girl in Rome who didn’t feel pretty at all. \u003cem\u003eBloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli\u003c\/em\u003e is the enchanting story for young readers of how a young girl used her imagination and emerged from plain to extraordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a young girl in Rome, Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) felt “brutta” (ugly) and searched all around her for beauty. Seeing the colors of Rome’s flower market one day, young Elsa tried to plant seeds in her ears and nose, hoping to blossom like a flower. All she got was sick, but from that moment, she discovered her own wild imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1920 and '30s, influenced by her friends in the surrealist art movement, Schiaparelli created a vast collection of unique fashion designs—hats shaped like shoes, a dress adorned with lobsters, gloves with fingernails, a dress with drawers and so many more. She mixed her own bold colors and invented her own signature shades, including shocking pink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli \u003c\/em\u003eis a stunning and sophisticated picture book biography that follows Schiaparelli’s life from birth and childhood to height of success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKyo Maclear and Julie Morstad (creators of \u003cem\u003eJulia, Child\u003c\/em\u003e) have gorgeously interpreted Schiaparelli’s life. Maclear tells a lyrical story with moments both poignant and humorous and Morstad’s elegant imagery saturates the pages with Schiaparelli-inspired shapes and colors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInformative backmatter and suggested further reading included. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeauty . . . \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e                     Color . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e                                    Doubts . . . \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a little girl in Rome, Elsa Schiaparelli was told she was not pretty. \u003cem\u003eWhat is beauty?\u003c\/em\u003e Elsa wondered as she grew older. So she sought out beauty around her and found it everywhere: in the colors and scents of the Rome flower market, in the garden, and in the attic of her family home, buried in a chest of old dresses. She found affection from her dear uncle in Milano.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eVoliamo\u003c\/em\u003e,” said Uncle Giovanni. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Let’s fly!” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Elsa did fly! “Schiap,” as she later called herself, developed an artist’s eye and imagination. These bloomed in the wildly imaginative dresses, hats, shoes, and jewelry that made her an important name in fashion. Defining beauty on her own creative and rebellious terms was the key to Elsa Schiaparelli’s happiness and success—and is still seen today in her legacy of wild imagination. Daring and different, Elsa Schiaparelli used art to make fashion, and it was quite marvelous.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Morstad’s vivid mixed-media have an imaginativeness to match Schiaparelli’s surrealistic designs (playing with a beloved uncle as a child, she soars amid the stars and planets of the cosmos) and feature splashes of Schiaparelli’s trademark shade of pink...[It’s] a dramatic tribute worthy of its audacious subject.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The duo behind \u003cem\u003eJulia, Child \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a bold first-person biography of designer Elsa Schiaparelli.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In full scenes and vignettes, Morstad’s mixed-media paintings capture the lanky, classy panache of Schiap and her designs.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBulletin of the Center for Children’s Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Using Schiaparelli herself as narrator, this picture-book biography tells the story of her unsettled childhood and rise to premier couturier for a young audience.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBulletin of the Center for Children’s Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With beautiful, richly colorful, and playful artwork nicely evoking the character of its subject, this lyrical biography of Elsa Schiaparelli offers picture-book readers an enlightening introduction to the wildly inventive and influential fashion designer.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Morstad’s delicate watercolor illustrations do a great job of depicting Schiaparelli’s designs, but subtle hints—pink flowers composed of dresses, shoes, and gloves, for instance—emphasize how Schiaparelli’s view of the world shaped her artwork.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Little ones who “dare to be different” will be inspired.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Together Maclear and Morstad have created a picture book that, like Elsa’s art, is “daring, different, and whole” and that reminds us that “together, we BLOOM and BLOOM.”” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer Oleinik, Shelf Awareness (blog)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Morstad’s (\u003cem\u003eWhen Green Becomes Tomatoes\u003c\/em\u003e) lush illustrations match Maclear’s enlightening narrative... 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