Description: A colorfully illustrated tale that introduces children to the art of Henri Matisse through a delightful tale about the famous artist and his cat La Puce.
Brief description: Joan Waites is an award-winning author-illustrator with more than 50 titles published for the children's trade and educational markets, including A Colorful Tail: Finding Monet at Giverny and A Purr-fect Painting: Matisse's Other Great Cat. A former adjunct faculty member of the Corcoran Museum's school of art and design for their aspiring-artists programs, she continues to teach art for children and adults. Joan is a member of the Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC, and the National Art Education Association and previously served as the Mid-Atlantic SCBWI illustrator coordinator. Joan lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Visit her at www.joanwaites.com or follow her on Instagram @joanwaites.