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Elisabeth and the box of colours

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Painting brings joy in a moment of grief in this moving and ultimately uplifting story inspired by the childhood of French portrait artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun.

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SKU: 9781800900868 Category: CH Early Readers Tags: Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues: death & bereavement (Children's / Teenage), School stories (Children's / Teenage)
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Painting brings joy in a moment of grief in this moving and ultimately uplifting story inspired by the childhood of French portrait artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun.

Elisabeth loves to paint, just like her papa. She spends hours making her own pictures of everything she sees – and the more colourful, the better!

But when she goes away to school, she finds herself in a world of grey: grey buildings, grey uniforms, grey rooms. She misses Papa and all the colours of home. And one winter morning, she gets some terrible news that makes her days darker than ever before. Will Elisabeth be able to find the colour and joy in her life again?

A touching tale about friendship, family and finding joy in the darkest of times. Inspired by the childhood of French portrait artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun.

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Weight 140 g
Dimensions 16.8 × 12.6 × 0.8 cm
Author

Woodfine, Katherine

Publisher

Barrington Stoke

Imprint

Barrington Stoke

Cover

Paperback

Pages

79

Language

English

Edition

Paperback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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