Andy Warhol Happy Bug Day

by Andy Warhol

Learn your colors with a little help from Andy Warhol! This sturdy board book features Warhol's Happy Bug Day artwork, which he created during the 1950's. Each type of bug corresponds to a different color.
- 28 pages
- Trim: 6.25 x 5" (16 x 12.5 cm)

Genres: Childrens

28 pages, Board Book

Published June 14, 2016

About the author

Andy Warhol was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one of the most important American artists of the second half of the 20th century. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental films Empire (1964) and Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).

Reviews

[Elise Bender · Rating 5 out of 5]

My parents’ friend Lexi found this for me when she was at the Art Institute of Chicago. She read it to me first when we were at her house for a baseball and grill kickback on her patio. It’s my first Warhol.

I love this book. I read it with my dad a lot and I also enjoy looking at my Warhol by myself. The book’s colors are more vibrant than any other board-book, and the insect illustrations are just whimsical enough for bugs (like yellowjackets and termites!) that I wouldn’t want to see too close yet, IRL.

It’s the first book where I’ve seen text in causal, semi-cursive handwriting, and the insect names are beautifully printed in their corresponding colored script.

This week I started crawling (a lot). Then my dad got ahead of himself and showed me how to use markers tonight—now his face and mine are popping with colorful scribbles too.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful book. I had no idea I could appreciate ticks as beauty until this book.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

So cute! My preschoolers loved it.

[Earl · Rating 3 out of 5]

A board book about colors using Andy Warhol’s art. The cursive text is kind of hard to read.

[Trish · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a bug book about colors.