Matisse's Garden Author:Samantha Friedman, Henri Matisse One day, the French artist Henri Matisse cut a small bird out of a piece of paper. It looked lonely all by itself, so he cut out more shapes to join it. Before he knew it, Matisse had transformed his walls into larger-than-life gardens, filled with brightly colored plants, animals, and shapes of all sizes! Featuring cut-paper illustrations and i... more »nteractive foldout pages, Matisse?s Garden is the inspiring story of how the artist?s never-ending curiosity helped turn a small experiment into a radical new form of art.« less