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A review by balletbookworm
I, Juan de Pareja: The Story of a Great Painter and the Slave He Helped Become a Great Artist by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
4.0
Reads a bit slow for a kids' book, IMO, however that may simply be because I was writing down all the "vocabulary" words in the book (side project: pulling out all the words that might be above reading level in the book since a popular assignment for kids to have them write down all the words they don't know). And there are a lot.
This is a very fanciful story of the painter Velasquez told from the perspective of his slave, Juan de Pareja, who became a famous painter in his own right. It has a very "adult" feel to the structure of the sentences, very pretty prose especially when Juan is describing Velasquez in the act of creating a painting.
This is a very fanciful story of the painter Velasquez told from the perspective of his slave, Juan de Pareja, who became a famous painter in his own right. It has a very "adult" feel to the structure of the sentences, very pretty prose especially when Juan is describing Velasquez in the act of creating a painting.