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Zoro is a boy living in the 17th century but he has a very special job. He is the apprentice to none other than Leonardo da Vinci.What makes this job so special is he is helping da Vinci with the plans for his flying machine. Zoro brings job and innocence to da Vinci's life as he is creating the model for his airplane.This book is so enjoyable because it shows a side to da Vinci that is not shown often, which is his relationships with someone around him. While this story may not be true, it is h...
Laurence Anholt has written a delightful historical fiction picture book. Leonardo and the Flying Boy is part of Anholt’s Artists series. Anholt takes known information about two of da Vinci’s students and incorporates them into a story about his flying machine. The book is illustrated with some of da Vinci’s work as well as colorful pictures by Laurence Anholt. The illustrations depict the time period and give readers a view of da Vinci’s world. I would not hesitate to add Leonardo and the Fly...
This was a fun addition to a library program for ages 6-11 about Leonardo da Vinci, though I did have some difficulty separating out what was fact and what was fiction for the group. Still, I enjoyed having a less technical book to read aloud.
A cute story, but not much about DaVinci.
In a time when there were no spaceships and no airplane, Leonardo da Vinci told his student Zoro that anything is possible. Da Vinci, a man with a dream, was a profoundly skilled artist and a self taught scientist and engineer. Leonardo and the Flying Boy is a great story about the great mind of Leonardo da Vinci. The books discusses how we must try to understand everything! Laurence Anholt did a wonderful job filling this book with sketches (from Leonardo's sketch books) and bright colorful ill...
Story is OK, but the cartoonish illustrations are a big disappointment.
Informative - but raised some questions
Leonardo and his apprentice go on many adventures together and create life-changing machines.
Zoro is a young boy who is an apprentice for the great artist and inventor, Leonardo Da Vinci. This book takes you through the artworks and inventions by Da Vinci. Zoro is curious about Leonardo's secret room and all the strange noises that come from it. It isn't until the end that he discovers Leonardo is building something wonderful-a flying machine! I feel that this book would be great to use for an art class or for a lesson plan about past artist/inventors. I think it's a fun way to show stu...
Can you believe I was in Hay-on-Wye and did not set foot in a book shop? We were staying overnight in the hall (opposite the Conservative club for those of you who know the place) and, having been one of the people who unloaded the van, made copious cups of tea and got dinner on the go, decided I would not be able to do them justice in the half hour or so for which they were likely to remain open. So when those who had run out to explore in spite of aching feet returned with their booty, the are...
Vasari, the Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian, most famous for his 'Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects', once said of Leonardo da Vinci that he was 'marvellously endowed by heaven with beauty, grace and talent in such abundance that he leaves other men far behind'; he also added that this gentle vegetarian was strong enough to bend a horseshoe with his bare hands. There is no horseshoe bending in this volume but there is ample evidence of Leonardo's s...
This historical fiction by Laurence Anholt is a wonderful addition for teaching students art history. Leonardo da Vinci was not just an artist but a sculptor, inventor etc. This book tells the story of Zoro and Salai and da Vinci and the flying machine.
I liked this book and how leonardo was a mathmaticion and almost everything else.
Leonardo DaVinci took in a young boy who was terrible trouble for his mother. This story is about that boy and another boy who befriended DaVinci, and a little about DaVinci himself. Not enough about DaVinci.
Zoro succumbs to peer pressure and suffers the consequences. Zoro's enthusiasm for the project makes Leonardo continue working on his invention. Good illustrations.Kate read parts of this.
A bit of a weird story but a good introduction to the simple inventions he did that we still use today. Told in a story form.
The illustrations were done through paint. Anholt does a great job illustrating the scenes in the story, and either has the pictures take up the whole page or keep them within a small frame. For the historical aspects of the story she includes the actual images (i.e. the painting of Mona Lisa). There were a few pages in the book where Anholt illustrated the images in brown colored pencil. These images were only inventions that Leonardo Da Vinci dreamed up, so I’m guessing that’s why they’re in
A great way to present biographical information about Leonardo da Vinci to young readers. I personally loved the illustrations.
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