Alice Atherton's Grand tour
Call Number
- J BLUM (OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2023]
Physical Description
193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary
Ten-year-old Alice Atherton is sent by her father to spend the summer with his dear friends the Murphys who live with their three children and pet monkey in the French Riviera. There, Alice will meet and learn from some of the most extraordinary luminaries of the time. She visits a junk yard with Pablo Picasso looking for objects to make into art, performs a dance inspired by celestial bodies with the renowned Ballet Russes, and imagines magical adventures with Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Subjects
- Ballet dancers > Juvenile fiction.
- Ballerinas > Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship > Fiction.
- Families > Fiction.
- Father and child > Fiction.
- Travel > Fiction.
- Riviera (France) > Juvenile fiction.
- Ballets russes > Juvenile fiction.
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 > Juvenile fiction.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 > Juvenile fiction.
- Fitzgerald, Zelda, 1900-1948 > Juvenile fiction.