Henri's Scissors

Such a lovely story told in colorful and simple pictures. The pictures that convey a short bio of the artist are catchy, and story is told at a very nice pace. By the end, it is impossible to not love Matisse, his cutouts, his birds, his seaside home, and his mother. A wonderful bedtime story for art lovers!

I read this book in conjunction with a couple of homeschool art lessons for 6 and 7-year-olds. The children seemed to enjoy it although I had to explain the ending a little bit — I won't spoil it here. The illustrations went well with the story and the class did enjoy it.

It is a very good biography of the later years in Henri Matisse’s life. I just read several artists biographies to my granddaughter. It’s an ideal selection for kindergarten through seconders studying various styles of art.

Peaceful and beautifully designed, "Henri's Scissors" keeps the life of Henri Matisse brief enough for an art teacher's read-aloud without sacrificing substance. Once Matisse moves to the seaside, Jeanette's words and illustrations delve suitably deeper. She leads the reader through Matisse's garden of cut-out shapes, lifting one up above the Mediterranean.

This is a good book to introduce an artist to a young child.

Cute book that is easy for kids to understand. Read it to my young preschool class for the book of the week and they made Matisse collages from looking at the pictures in the book. Pretty fun.

I bought this to be a gift for my 3 year old niece. But I didn't realize until I received it that Matisse dies at the end of the book (looking back, it is in the description.) It's a little bold in my opinion to gift a book with death to a child that young, so I will be keeping this lovely book for my child.

The kids loved this story and were inspired to use scissors for creating!

A lovely story to introduce these extraordinary works of art that lighten up the world and are so worth seeing at first hand. We were lucky to have an exhibition in our local gallery in Gosport a few months ago and now the Tate - so wow. But this book will be a little treasure for the younger members of the family for some time to come.

Good historical story.

Love this book

Art book for the little ones took get then into Mattise really good for ours art class too!

Great book for the classroom Quiet all the way though the story