Matisse on the Loose
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Book Title:
Matisse on the Loose
Book Date and Publisher:
07-2009 - Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
Short Summary:
Eleven-year-old narrator Matisse's mother is head of security for the local art museum, where an exhibit of Henri Matisse's paintings is scheduled at the same time as a security-system overhaul. While the alarms are turned off, Matisse gives in momentarily to temptation, replacing his namesake's Portrait of Pierre with his own convincing copy. Events that overtake him before he can put the original back in its frame turn his childish misdeed into an inadvertent heist.
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Publisher Comments
"A kid. A famous painting. A cool moment. A prison sentence?
"Have you ever done something you shouldn't have? But you're a good person and you don't think that it's going to cause any real harm? But then something bad happens and it turns out that you were wrong? Welcome to Matisse's world.
Matisse has finally got the chance to come face to face with the work of his namesake, the great French painter Henri Matisse. The museum where his mom works as head of security is hosting a Matisse exhibit. Matisse thought it would be cool to hang his own artwork--a copy of a famous Matisse painting, "Portrait of Pierre"--on the museum wall just for a minute.
But then a tour group thinks that it's a "real "Matisse. So now Matisse's painting hangs in a museum--while the priceless original hangs on Matisse's eccentric family's den wall. A sixth grader should not get caught up in a museum heist. But . . . what if he does?
Group:
Children's Chapter Books
