Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony

Lisa Rogers is a former elementary school librarian. She is the author of Beautiful Noise, illustrated by Il Sung Na, which received three starred reviews, and 16 Words: William Carlos Williams and “The Red Wheelbarrow,” illustrated by Chuck Groenink, which won the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Award and the Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award, and was a Bank Street Best Book and a Crystal Kite Award finalist. She is also the author of Hound Won’t Go, a Massachusetts Must-Read, and the co-author of Discover Her Art.Stacy Innerst is a painter, children's book artist, and educator. His books have been honored with the Sydney Taylor Award for The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come, the New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books Award for Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of RBG vs. Inequality, the SCBWI Golden Kite for Picture Book Illustration for The Music in George’s Head.

★ "An exploration of Joan Mitchell’s passionate, color-drenched, large-scale abstract paintings. Innerst’s illustrations are fittingly exuberant, rendering Mitchell in grayscale against expressionistic brush strokes and drips in warm yellows, blues, deep greens, and pinks... simply marvelous."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review “American abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell’s dynamic style and approach are the subject of this lyrical, exuberantly colorful picture-book biography…Rogers' spare text emphasizes her focus and determined imagination as she works on the paintings, but it’s Innerst’s bold illustrations, filled with thick, bright brushstrokes in riotous color alongside angular, black-and-white drawings of the lanky artist in her studio, that showcase the power of her work.”—Booklist"Vivid language describes Mitchell's art... Innerst's mesmerizing illustrations bring art to life... A lively invitation to explore an important mid-century woman artist and a visual feast that will ignite the imagination."—The Horn Book