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Lump, the world-famous artist Pablo Picasso s dog, loves cake. He can never have enough! But when he takes a bite out of a beautiful cake he finds in the garden, he discovers it s not cake at all it s made of metal and realizes not everything is what it seems. Lump and his friend, the goat Esmeralda, meet other animals in the yard and learn that they are made from surprising things: She-Goat tells how Picasso made her from broken lamps and tin cans, Baboon explains that her head is made of toy cars and metal strips, and Crane shows off her delicate legs made from forks. This delightful book brings Picasso s villa in Cannes to life and explains how the artist, ever inventive and playful, made sculptures from different materials using different techniques throughout his long career. Readers learn about the joy and freedom sculpture brought to Picasso s life and art.

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Nancy Lim is a curatorial assistant in the Department of Painting & Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She lives in New York. Beatrice Alemagna is the award-winning author and illustrator of thirty books for children, including A Lion in Paris and Little Big Boubo. She received the Italian Andersen Prize for Illustrator of the Year in 2010 and has been twice nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She lives in Italy.

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