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I‘m really enjoying this Library of Luminaries series. I don‘t know much about Frida Kahlo but this was a good place to start. The illustrations are really nice as well. 4⭐️

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Unpopular opinion on this one.
I love frida khalo so much! This is a pretty book and I‘d maybe give this to a kid if I wanted them to know a little bit about her, but if I‘m honest this isn‘t a book you will pick up again and again and there a probably better children‘s book about her out there.
Nothing overtly wrong with it but it left me wanting more as the biography side was really really basic. I‘m going to recommend alternatives below

The essential elements of Kahlo's remarkable life are covered, using lots of pictures and few words. A lovely way to learn about a feminist icon. Designed with the cute, small square size, pretty spine and full colour illustrations that practically beg to make this a gift purchase. It's that time of year. 😀🎁

Diego determinedly continued to have affairs, and Frida, too, began to take lovers. Her husband tolerated her relationships with women, but she kept her liaisons with men a secret.

"I paint myself because I am so often alone, because I am the subject I know best."

Library of Luminaries is a series of illustrated biographies. Currently they have the following published: Jane Austen, Frida Kahlo, Coco Chanel, and Virginia Woolf. My library just got all four in after I requested them and the other three had already been checked out. I knew nothing about Frida but I loved the illustrated format with bite size information. These are short and sweet. I read this one in 20 minutes.

Another gorgeous entry in the Library of Luminaries series.