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Suzette and the Puppy: A Story About Mary Cassatt (Young readers)

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Little Suzette and her nursemaid enjoy day by day walks in the handsome park near their home. Steadily, they see a tall, elegant lady strolling in the park with her tiny puppy. Then, a comical incident transforms Suzette and the puppy into friends. The time and place of this gentle story is Paris in the 1870s, when many fine artists were creating the exciting approach to painting referred to as Impressionism. As it happens, little Suzette’s Uncle Edgar is a type of artists. He’s the famous Edgar Degas. In the future, Uncle Edgar sends an artist to paint Suzette’s picture. Consider Suzette’s surprise, when the artist turns out to be the tall lady from the park! And Consider Suzette’s delight when the little puppy comes with her! The results of this enchanting meeting lives on to this day in an art masterpiece. For the woman used to be the major American artist, Mary Cassatt. Her painting of Suzette and the little dog, referred to as The Little Girl in the Blue Armchair, now hangs in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C. Among this book’s many beautiful full-color illustrations is a reproduction of the story’s painting.

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