num_pages: 32
description: From Amazon: In Freemans latest Princess Arabella book this young Black princess gives her royal friends a tour of her very own museum. Unlike the Louvre Princess Arabellas museum seems to attract more children than adults features many hands-on exhibits and displays art that relates to the princesss family. Portraits of Princess Arabella and her mother attract the attention of her regal friends because both have blue faces. Princess Ling calls this strange while Prince Jonas declares it magnificent. Princess Naomi says she recognizes Arabella as the subject of these portraits regardless of skin color. The Worhol-esque endpapers even foreshadow this conversation depicting Arabella with blue red pink green purple and orange skin. And indeed the wonderfully stylized images of Princess Arabellas unique hairdo which Freeman creates with increasingly smaller unconnected circles that give the essence of five pigtails make her unmistakable. Other museum exhibits include huge colorful dotted pumpkins like Yayoi Kusamas a giant spider that recalls Louise Bourgeois Maman one dog inspired by Jeff Koons and another by Keith Haring and a portrait of her parents reminiscent of Kehinde Wileys portraits of the Obamas. Docent Arabella wearing her Mondrian-inspired dress concludes the gathering with tasty treats and enjoys the childrens excitement for making their own amazing artwork. Like the other Princess Arabella books this one features a cast of multicultural characters from different though unspecified countries. Art appreciation from the lens of royal Black childhoodbeautiful!
language: English
title: Princess Arabella at the Museum
publisher: Cassava Republic Press