Focuses on the childhood of the noted artist Michelangelo.

The Famous Children series tells lively and amusing stories from the early years of great composers and artists−bringing these genuises vividly alive for today's young readers. The approachable storytelling style is wonderfully accompanied by colorful and humorous illustrations every child will enjoy.

The Famous Children series tells lively and amusing stories from the early years of great composers and artists−bringing these genuises vividly alive for today's young readers. The approachable storytelling style is wonderfully accompanied by colorful and humorous illustrations every child will enjoy.

"Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Severely dyslexic and wanting to know more, he took it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford's...

"In this moving graphic memoir, Eisner Award-winning writer and artist Michael Kupperman traces the life of his reclusive father--the once-world-famous Joel Kupperman, Quiz Kid. That his father is slipping into dementia--seems to embrace it, really--means that the past he would never talk about might be erased forever. Joel Kupperman became one of the most famous children in America during World War II as one of the young geniuses on the series Quiz...