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.

This delightful picture book imagines the charming relationship between the famous painter Henri Matisse and his cats and features The Cat with the Red Fish and Matisse's iconic Cat Cutout.

La Puce and his two companions, Minouche and Coussi, spend their days in Matisse's sunny seaside apartment watching the artist create his paintings. As La Puce observes Matisse painting his masterpiece The Cat with the Red Fish, featuring Minouche, he too longs to be the subject of one of his paintings. After Matisse falls ill and can no longer paint standing up, La Puce tries to coax him back into painting by using himself as a model. When an accident happens, La Puce inspires the artist to create again . . . but this time using paper and scissors!

Also available from the Artists and Their Animals series:
A Colorful Tail: Finding Monet at Giverny
A Purr-fect Painting: Matisse's Other Great Cat [AuthorName]By Joan Waites[/AuthorName][AuthorBio]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.​[/AuthorBio][NumIllustration]30 color images[/NumIllustration][CoAuthor][/CoAuthor][SubTitle]Matisse's Other Great Cat[/SubTitle][ColorPattern]30 color images[/ColorPattern]