Continuing my read of Sibert winners and honors. This was a fairly straightforward short biography. It was all text with a small insert with artwork and photographs. This covered basically the artist's entire life and just a little of what happened to his work after his death. This was a fairly unhappy book. And as all text it just didn't sing. It was fine but it read slowly.

Winner of the Robert Sibert Honor book award, this short biography does an excellent job exploring the life of this fascinating artist.

Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist is a straight-forward, clearly-written biography of the artist’s life—-exactly what I was looking to read.

This book is the life of Vincent Van Gogh. It starts from his childhood up until his death. It has moments of happiness and despair and uses real quotes from Van Gogh's letters.

Unlike the common informational text, this book was written in bibliographical chapters. Each chapter included 2-3 years of his life but is told in 3rd person point of view to have the readers get an understanding of all the characters in the book. Like many informational text, it has a table of contents, glossary, timeline, and index as well as a map that showed where Van Gogh traveled throughout his life.

I would give this book 4 stars because it would have been better nice to have the pictures drawn from a certain time be in the designated chapter. I understand that grouping the paintings together in the middle was more organized for readers but it made more sense to see his mentality change as well as his painting style. But overall, this was a good book. It gave readers a lot of information on the artist.

I read this book before going to the Van Gogh Museum. The book was informative and a relatively quick read. Vincent’s character was far more eccentric and peculiar than I had imagined. The background brought added meaning to the paintings and to a museum experience that was otherwise laden with sanitized exhibits.

Another interesting take on Van Gogh's life

I read this on the digital reading app my students use. It was riddled with typos, misspellings, and formatting errors. I very much enjoyed reading it, though, as a refresher course in the mystery and magic--and tragedy--of Vincent.

Short but complete bio of Van Gogh. There were quotes from letters and descriptions and photos of his work.

This book is easy to understand as it is meant for kids, but I enjoyed it as an adult. I got a glimpse at what Vincent and Theo's relationship was like, what it must have been like for Vincent in his struggles and his feelings. It felt quite personal and was a quick and fun read.

Objective. Clear. Concise yet not cold. Filled with references to Primary resources. Quite moving.