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From the creators of Chuck Close: Face Book comes an interactive biography of world-renowned artist Vik Muniz

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Vic Muniz´s images and his playful approach to making art captivate children and adults alike. Muniz works with everyday materials - such as peanut butter and jelly, chocolate syrup, and even garbage - to make images that often reference masterpieces or popular icons.

Jelly, Garbage + Toys, drawn from interviews with children, is an interactive first-person narrative that presents Muniz´s personal story and his art, focusing on some of his many processes and mediums. The book emphasizes the importance of play in the creation of art while challenging children to think about how images are made and what they mean. The design - with graphic novel–inspired speech bubbles, liftable flaps, and a Turkish-map fold (all four sides open) - helps communicate Muniz´s exuberant message.

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Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist best known for working with everyday objects and mediums such as food, garbage, plastic, and toys, and for playing with size and perspective in his pieces. He is best known for his 1996 series Sugar Children and for his photograph, "Action Photo, After Hans Namuth" (1997). Muniz has been the subject of more than 170 solo exhibitions and participated in over 340 group exhibitions in 31 countries. Visit him online at www.vikmuniz.com.

Joan Sommers and Amanda Freymann are the authors of numerous books, including Chuck Close , winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. Joan lives in Beverly Shores, IN and Amanda lives in Chicago, IL. Ascha Drake is a visual arts teacher at The Bay School of San Francisco. She lives in Oakland, CA.

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