Frida: ?viva La Vida! Long Live Life!

by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

Book Overview

"Wearing the white huipil with the lavender tassel,
hiding my amputated leg in red-leather boots,
I wheel the wheelchair to the Blue House studio
that Diego so lovingly built for me.

I dip the brush in blood-red paint
and, embracing life with all its light,
I print on a watermelon cut open--like I am--
Viva la vida --
a hymn to nature and life."

Frida Kahlo, a native of Mexico, is described here in biographical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761453369
• ISBN13: 9780761453369
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Amazon Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.7" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12