A boy named Giotto
By: Paolo Guarnieri ; pictures by Bimba Landmann ; translated by Jonathan Galassi.
Contributors: Landmann, Bimba, ill.; Galassi, Jonathan.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Giotto, 1266?-1337 -- Juvenile fiction.; Giotto, 1266?-1337 -- Fiction.; Cimabue -- Fiction.; Artists -- Fiction.; Shepherds -- Fiction.; Italy -- Fiction.
Description: Eight-year-old Giotto the shepherd boy confesses his dream of becoming an artist to the painter Cimabue, who teaches him how to make marvelous pigments from minerals, flowers, and eggs and takes him on as his pupil.