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A legendary artist’s life and work unfold in vibrant pop-up form. Step into the world of Frida Kahlo through 5 of her most celebrated works reimagined as three-dimensional scenes. Parrots and monkeys, family and flowers, fashion and jewellery, her bright blue house—Frida Kahlo’s paintings are filled with the things she cherished. This striking pop-up book invites children and families to step into her world through five of her most celebrated works reimagined as three-dimensional scenes that reveal her love of animals, her family roots, her courage in the face of pain, her ties to Mexico and her artistic struggles with the capitalist-industrialist complex outside her homeland that provided the market for her paintings. Short texts and quotes from Frida explain each image in language that even young readers can easily understand. An introduction, a concise biography, and reproductions of the original paintings are woven th