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Novesky, Amy

Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois

40 pp. | Abrams | May, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4197-1881-6 $18.95

(1) K-3 Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault. Bourgeois, who became most famous for her giant sculptures of spiders, also worked with textiles, and it's at her family's tapestry-restoration workshop in France, along a river "that wove like a wool thread through everything," that the book begins. Novesky sews together the many themes of Bourgeois's art and life into a spare yet lilting narrative. Arsenault's mixed-media illustrations create stylistically and compositionally varied images.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2016