Katie visits the gallery for the first time with Grandma and discovers that art is wonderfully exciting, especially when five famous paintings come alive for her She spends the day enjoying "The Hay Wain" by John Constable, "Madame Moitessier Seated" by Ingres, Les Parapluies" by Renoir, "Tropical Storm with a Tiger" by Rousseau, and "Dynamic Suprematism" by Kaimir Malevich.

James Mayhew is a children'sauthor and illustrator whose books include "Can You See a Little Bear," "Katie and the Sunflowers," "Katie Meets the Impressionists," "The Knight Who Took All Day," and"Who Wants a Dragon? "In 1994 he received the" New York Times" Award for one of the10 best illustrated books of the year for "The Boy and the Cloth of Dreams.""