A Biography of Dale Chihuly
A TRUE TALE WITH
A CHERRY ON TOP
Little Bigfoot
(pub.10.15.2024)
48 pages
Ages 5 - 9
Author: Sharon Mentyka
Illustrator: Shelley Couvillion
Character: Dale Chihuly
Overview:
" Travel along with Dale Chihuly on his life’s journey full of curiosity, discovery, teamwork, and perseverance as he overcomes challenges to become a glass artist of international acclaim.
Dale Chihuly’s early life presented many challenges, such as tragic losses in his family at a young age and an accident that left him blind in one eye, yet his resilience, hard work, and optimism taught him life-long skills that became inseparable from his body of work—incomparable glass creations."
Tantalizing taste:
"In gardens, galleries, and museums, visitors discovered Cylinders, Baskets, and Seaforms that seemed as if they'd been plucked out of nature; hothouses filled with blooming glass flowers just like in Dale's mother's garden; and canoes filled with glass Floats that recalled the marbles he played with as a boy.
Dale's pieces got bigger, bigger, and BIGGER still, until he was making some of the most enormous glass sculptures imaginable!"
And something more: At the back of the book, A Transformative Life explains that "Dale's lifelong love of the Pacific Northwest has been instrumental in nurturing the region's growth as a major glassblowing center - one that rivals Murano, Italy, where Dale first saw glassblowing teams at work. Today, more than one thousand glass artists live and work in the region, and the magnificent Chihuly Bridge of Glass welcomes visitors to his hometown of Tacoma."
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