The Day the Paintings Talked

Long Description: When Kai breaks all of the museum rules, he finds himself inside the paintings that just minutes ago loomed above him. But when he continues to misbehave, he suddenly becomes lost and alone, until a girl with the pearl earring tells him to follow the doves. The Day the Paintings Talked is a charming story of a boy’s misadventures in an immersive world of art that comes to life. The book was inspired by the following works: Pablo Picasso, “Girl Before a Mirror”; Rene Magritte, “The Son of Man”; Jackson Pollock, “Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)”; Edvard Munch, “The Scream”; Johannes Vermeer, “Girl With a Pearl Earring”; Claude Monet, “Water Lilies”; Georges Braque, “Resurrection of the Bird”; John Whistler, “Whistler’s Mother”; Vincent Van Gogh, “The Starry Night”; Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, “Dogs Playing Poker”; Kazimir Malevich, “Malevich’s Black Square”; Piet Mondrian, “Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow”; Salvador Dali, “The Persistence of Memory”; Hokusai, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”; and, Leonardo da Vinci, “Mona Lisa”