(2) K-3 In Wallner's latest picture book portrait, we are introduced to a hard-working New York farm girl named Anna Mary Robinson. Years later, after her husband died, sixty-seven-year-old Anna Mary finally found time to create her now-famous nostalgic landscapes. Wallner's style is suited to her subject: sedate, carefully composed watercolors scenes with backgrounds that could have been painted by Grandma Moses herself.

Reviewer: Lolly Robinson | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2004

(3) K-3 Life and Work Of series. The books in this series offer brief overviews of an artist's life and work, using remarkably few words to convey a substantial amount of information. Profusely illustrated with photos of the feature artist and reproductions of art, they impart what is innovative about his or her body of work, whether it is Calder's mobiles, Rivera's murals, or Moses's evocative depiction of the rural past. Reading list, timeline. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Life and Work Of titles: Alexander Calder, Diego Rivera, and Grandma Moses.]

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke

(4) K-3 Thirteen of Grandma Moses's detailed folk-art paintings, depicting rural activities such as field plowing, grain threshing, and sleigh rides, are paired with excerpts of her writing about life in upstate New York. Nikola-Lisa has added simple text describing and attempting to unify the appealing illustrations, but the package as a whole feels disjointed. An author's note about Grandma Moses is included.

Reviewer: Bridget McCaffrey