![]() ![]() ![]() Other books in the series include Linnea’s Year Book and Linnea’s Windowsill Garden. Linnea in Monet’s Garden has been translated into twenty languages. It is both a travel story and an introduction to art history and especially Impressionism. The book includes biographical information and photographs of Monet, reproductions of some of his water-lily paintings, and Linnea’s own guide to Paris. ![]() In character and appearance, with her smock and mop of hair, Linnea is based upon Anderson’s daughter. After seeing a major Monet exhibition in Paris in 1980, Cristina Björk was inspired to write Linnea in Monet’s Garden, a story in which Linnea, a small girl, visits both Paris and Monet’s studio and garden at Giverny. Christina Björk has written about twenty books, and is particularly well-known for the stories about Linnea, created with the illustrator Lena Anderson (see elsewhere in this catalogue). ![]()
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