Cloth Lullaby : The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois

Amy Novesky is an author & book editor. Her award-winning picture books include GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE; CLOTH LULLABY: THE WOVEN LIFE OF LOUISE BOURGEOIS; ME, FRIDA; GEORGIA IN HAWAII; IMOGEN, THE MOTHER OF MODERNISM & THREE BOYS; & MISTER & LADY DAY. IF YOU WANT TO RIDE A HORSE, illustrated by Gael Abary, will be published in 2024 by Neal Porter Books/Holiday House. And THE POET & THE BEES, illustrated by Jessica Love, will follow in 2025 from Viking. Amy is represented by Caryn Wiseman, Andrea Brown Literary Agency.Amy began making books at Chronicle Books in San Francisco. Twenty-five years & hundreds of books later, she has worked with authors, agents, packagers, publishers, book stores, toy companies, & film studios, including Cameron + Company (LOVE IS A TUTU; LOVE IS A TRUCK; LOVE IS A BALL); Creative Editions (EGG; SEASHELL; CORAL), Disney Press, Ever After Studio, Harcourt (MARY POPPINS), MoMa (ROOTS AND WINGS, co-written with artist Shahzia Sikander); National Geographic Kids; Paper Hat Press, Pixar (THREE LITTLE WORDS), & Princeton Architectural Press. Currently, Amy is Editor-at-Large at Cameron Kids, based in Northern California, an imprint of ABRAMS, New York. Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was a world-renowned modern artist noted for her sculptures made of wood, steel, stone, and cast rubber. Her most famous spider sculpture, Maman, stands more than 30 feet high. Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louise's own mother was a weaver of tapestries. Louise spent her childhood in France as an apprentice to her mother before she became a tapestry artist herself. She worked with fabric throughout her career, and this biographical picture book shows how Bourgeois's childhood experiences weaving with her loving, nurturing mother provided the inspiration for her most famous works. With a beautifully nuanced and poetic story, this book stunningly captures the relationship between mother and daughter and illuminates how memories are woven into us all. Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louise s own mother was a weaver of tapestries. Louise spent her childhood in France as an apprentice to her mother before she became a tapestry artist herself. She worked with fabric throughout her career, and this biographical picture book shows how Bourgeois s childhood experiences weaving with her loving, nurturing mother provided the inspiration for her most famous works. With a beautifully nuanced and poetic story, this book stunningly captures the relationship between mother and daughter and illuminates how memories are woven into us all. A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Cloth Lullaby stunningly captures the life of Louise Bourgeois and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all