An Artist's Eyes

I received this arc in exchange for my honest review.

This booknwas very artsy indeed! The illustrations were full of colors and elements of art. The text was informative using great adjectives such as mellow yellow and bold. This would be perfect to read to an art class!

A big thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing/Frances Lincoln Childrens Books for the ARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. This is a children's book. Although this is a children's book, I think many adults will enjoy it as well. I was not sure for a while who was Mo and who was Jo. Then I realized it didn't matter. The illustrations were great, and the colours were amazing. This is a great book to help explain and explore how we see/feel/think differently and that it is okay. 4 stars

What an absolutely lovely book highlighting both our differences & our sameness. So important, especially in art. My niece loved the illustrations & I loved how beautifully the colors were described.

What a cute book! I absolutely love the illustrations. There are so many amazing colors and patters, which really help you see what both Mo and Jo were seeing. I love that this book emphasizes that, even though we all see things differently, we can all see the beauty in things. I think this book would be such a great way to teach kids how we see things differently, or even just all of the beauty that can be seen in nature.

This book has such beautiful illustrations! We loved seeing the perspective of both artists as we read the story. It was so creatively written and illustrated.

A big thank you to the publisher for gifting me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! I'm always so thankful to have these opportunities!

Today we have a book that has a 4 triquetra rating of "I really liked it."

Mo and Jo have the same eyes - even though they both see things a little differently. Mo is an artist and sees different shades of colors within the grasses, the forests, the flowers, the night sky. Jo sees shapes and patterns. Both are beautiful, and unique ways of seeing the world.

Young Jo doesn't agree with that, and gets frustrated with not being able to "see like an artist." Eventually they embrace the way they're uniquely seeing the world around them, and seems to enjoy the outing into nature with Mo more.

Overall this was an adorable book, great bedtime story, especially for those with littles around who might view the world differently, or pick up on different things. For those with autistic children who might pick up on patterns and geometric things over different shades of color, for example, would find this a helpful book in which they can relate to the main character of the story.

Oh this book is so special and so wonderful in highlighting and celebrating that the uniqueness in creativity is what makes a masterpiece!

Two people see the world in two very different ways, at first Jo is frustrated as he can’t see things the way Mo does, he can’t see the colours and hues described so beautifully in the text. However when he lets his imagination free he really starts to see through an artists eye. Jo soon realises that his way, although different to Mo’s, is equally as special!

Oh how I wish this could be read to a class just before every art session, it’s so b important for children that their artwork does not need to be a perfect replica of societies standards to be something amazing!

An absolutely wonderful book which will give even the most critical artists confidence to express themselves in their own unique way.

The illustrations are absolutely beautiful reflecting hues and tones in such a sumptuous way in each stunning picture!

What a lovely book! A beautiful message shared through well-chosen words and colorful, vibrant illustrations make An Artist’s Eyes an instant favorite for readers young and old.

Thanks to Netgalley and Frances Lincoln Children's Books for a free digital copy.

A book about color, perspective, and what it means to be an artist. I liked the contrast of the adult and kid characters and how they saw the world differently but both appreciated its beauty in their own way.

This picture book tells the story of Jo as he learns to see the world with the imagination and creativity of an artist. Through the course of the story he learns that there is no "artist's perspective" that we all should strive towards, instead we are all artists and the way we see the world is unique to us. All that matters to see things like an artist is to look for the beauty in the world around us.

As a grade 3 teacher with a love of teaching Art, I could absolutely see this book in my classroom library. The illustrations are beautiful and I think there would be many opportunities to use this book as an inspiration for creating art or teaching art lessons to young children. The message is also important because as an art teacher, my goal is to create small artists who throw caution to the wind and dive fully into their art pieces without inhibition. I would recommend this book to art teachers, home room teachers, librarians and families of little artists in the age 4-10 range. I so appreciate Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this lovely book.

An inspirational read about how we each view and interpret the world around us in different ways. A great book for any artist, young and old. I found this book to be sweet and affirming as we follow Jo discovering the unique and wonderful way they view nature, despite it being different from what they know Mo sees. The images perfectly mirror the two different characters’ perspectives and illustrates the meaning and message harmoniously with the text.

A big thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing/Frances Lincoln Childrens Books for the ARC.

A great, bright, colourful, simple book.
A book about how we all view and interpret the world around us differently. It will give even the most critical creative mind confidence to express themselves in their own unique way.

Great informative book with great use of adjectives like Mellow Yellow.

This would be a great book to read children not only to show them not just their artwork but anything they do, doesn't need to be a perfect replica of societies standards to be something amazing and beautiful.

The illustrations are absolutely beautiful reflecting hues and tones in such a sumptuous way in each stunning picture! The blends and just over watercolour feel is simply mesmerising.

An Artist's Eyes is filled with a beautiful story filled with beautiful illustrations that will fill your heart with the appreciation of what we are able to see and how we can see the same things but interpret them differently, and that's alright. Frances Tosdevin wrote a meaningful children's book to help children navigate art and teach them to appreciate what they see.

A must have for my classroom library and personal library. The descriptive ways in which Mo sees compared to Jo shows readers that seeing things in different ways is okay. So many great lessons can be taught with this book from relationship to art to perspective to descriptive language and more. The encouragement from Mo to Jo is inspiring.

This is a beautiful book that lost of children will enjoy. Is about any person can look at different things and have different perspectives of colours and everything around you. You feel drawn to the brightness of the book straight away. The illustrations are beautiful and vibrant.
Thank you NetGalley for letting me read this book.

A gloriously beautiful & inspiring book about individuality & creativity. There are many ways to see like an artist - all you need to do is trust your Artist's Eye.

This is a book you could gaze at for hours & revisit again&again. Utter joy!

The artwork! The vibrant colours! The power of imagination! A great read about how everyone views things differently... and that's the beauty of life!

Mo looks around her world, so much natural beauty, and she sees color in beautiful and wild display. Jo sees the exact same scenery and yet does not, cannot see in the same way that Mo sees those trees and flowers and hills. With some gentle encouragement along with her teaching words, Mo helps Jo to begin looking with added confidence at the natural beauty all around. He begins to realize that he is ‘seeing’ through his own eyes and not Mo’s. Mo teaches Jo to trust in his own eyes to see the beauty all around him, and not needing to be like anyone else.

We are each students in and through these lessons. We can be budding artists as well. Children need to be given freedom to be creative. And, do you know that this freedom needs to be given to and taken by all of us, no matter how old or young we are.

Age: 3 – 7

Author
Frances Tosdevin loves words and the way they dance upon a page as they interact with each reader. She studied at Cambridge University, then worked as a journalist in the Middle East before becoming a children’s author. Frances can be found @ https://francestosdevin.com

Illustrator
Clémence Monnet’s uses watercolors, Indian ink, and colored pencils to create her illustrations. The vivid colors on each page, on each double page, draw the reader in and well beyond. Clémence is a graduate of the Orléans School of Art and Design in France. She now lives and works just outside of Paris. She is an illustrator for the publishing world and the press, but also continues to develop her personal portfolio. She can be found @ https://artazart.com/en/artiste/clemence-monnet/

I read this short book in about 30 minutes cover to cover. The text was excellently written and extremely concise and descriptive and gave different perspectives on the objects that could be seen by a mum and her son when viewing the same things around them. The illustrations were marvellous and I can see that this book will appeal to parents and children when read as a bedtime story, or taken outdoors and used to trigger conversations and get children to give their imaginative opinions or paint / sketch scenes.
I would definitely reccomend people to purchase it!
Thank you to the publisher for letting me have an opportunity to look at it prior to publication.

This was a beautiful story about how each of us sees the world differently. Mo and Jo are hiking and Jo is frustrated he doesn’t see nature and colors the same way Mo does. Mo has an artist’s eye and Jo yearns to see things the same way. But he soon realizes that he does see the world with an artist’s eye. His eye is just different. And that’s ok.

I read this with my 4-year-old twins and we were all mesmerized by the bright colorful illustrations. This is a visually stunning book. One of my twins does “abstract” drawings, while the other is very literal. So they understood that art is different for different people.

This is a wonderful story that can teach children to appreciate other perspectives. Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing for this digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A cute book about how we all see things and how it is okay to see things differently - life would be so boring if we all saw things the same. Gorgeously illustrated, this will be a lovely bedtime book for littles and their grown-ups to read and settle down with as they talk about colors and things we see each day and how they see them differently from their grownups.

Thank you to NetGalley, Frances Tosdevin, Clemence Monnet - Illustrator and Quatro Publishing Group/Frances Lincoln Children's Books for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.