Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors: Drawing with Scissors

Jane O'Connor. Grosset & Dunlap, $5.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-448-42519-1

The Smart About Art series continues with Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors by Jane O'Connor, illus. by Jessie Hartland. Presented and organized in the style of a grade-school report (and written from the perspective of the fictitious ""Keesie Johnson""), the latest installment covers the Fauve movement and Matisse's shift from painting to cut-paper collage. (Mar.)

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