Title: Mirette Raced to Bellini’s Room
Media: Book illustration
Dimensions: 25.4 x 49.53 cm
Date: 1993
About the artist: Emily Arnold McCully was born in Galesburg, Illinois in 1939 and grew up on Long Island. She soon discovered that she was left handed and though she often smudged things, she began drawing at three or four years of age. After earning her Master’s degree in art history, a children’s book editor approached her and asked if she would illustrate a book called Sea Beach Express by George Panetta. Before long, Emily became an illustrator.
About the art: This picture is taken from the children’s story Mirette on the High Wire which was also written by Emily and won the Randolph Caldecott Medal. The story is about a girl who is enchanted by Bellini who can walk across the clothes line and not fall off. Without knowing he is actually “the Great Bellini” of high wire fame, she asks him to teach her this great ability.
What people have to say about it: "Emily Arnold McCully has captured, in admirably few words matched with expressive watercolor paintings, the excitement and stubborn determination of the budding artist. . . . An exuberant and uplifting picture book." - From The New York Times Book Review
Why it was chosen: All the pictures in this book, but this one especially, are vibrant and full of expression, something that will attract most any child.
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