Parrot and Mermaid

In the ocean, a magnificent giant,
there lived a mermaid with a silver tail.
One day a storm blew in, powerful, strong,
and the sky cracked open, while the ocean turned upside down!
The waves rolled on for a long time, rolling to the ground,
they carried the poor mermaid ashore.
They threw her on a tree (and that happens too),
without legs, she cannot descend to the sea by herself.

A colorful and phantasmagorical book, inspired by Henri Matisse's work "Parrot and Mermaid" (1952–1953), from which young readers will learn interesting facts not only about the artist himself but also about his paintings—their coloristic specifics, compositional features, and unusual technique of execution.