About the Series

The Artists on Planets Series introduces young readers to the wonders of art and planetary science. Amazing illustrations accompanied by delightful poetry tell wondrous tales and teach fascinating facts about our Solar System's beautiful planets.

The first books in the series take place on the fourth planet in our Solar System, the Red Planet we call Mars. The lavish illustrations show us Mars in a way we have never seen it before: through the eyes and paintings in the style of famous artists, such as the post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh and the Romantic landscape painter William Turner.

The initial picture books in the Artists on Planets Series—Vincent on Mars and William on Mars—share with us the sublime beauty of Mars as if these brilliant artists of the 19th century were alive in the 21st century to paint Mars' amazing sights. We get to see incredible paintings of the rusty sands and skies of Mars, a blue sunset over Flammarion Crater, the quirky shapes and colors of the Martian moons, a dust storm on Utopia Planitia, the awe-inspiring grandeur of Valles Marineris (the largest canyon in the Solar System!), the ice-filled Kolorev Crater, the frozen dunes of Olympia Undae, and the austere beauty of Mars' North Pole, and more. We also are treated to imaginative paintings in the styles of Vincent Van Gogh and William Turner of what Mars might have looked like when it had oceans, lakes, rivers, and possibly plant life four billion years ago. 

In each story, the young artist at first does not realize they are on Mars and carefully observes this new alien landscape, noticing its different colors and shapes, its unique features, and paints what they see as they explore their new surroundings. Each Artists on Planets book is a journey of artistic and scientific discovery filled with wonder, beauty, awe, the joy of learning, and the power of making art as a way of understanding a new world.

A fascinating, visually rich, companion volume is available for sale with each book in the Artists on Planets Series: an Illustrated Glossary of new vocabulary words, people, places, and things mentioned in the story with full page, color photographs illustrating each definition.

The picture books in the Artists on Planets Series are available as square, large-format paperback books printed in beautiful, vivid Amazon Premium Color, and as Kindle eBooks. It's worth getting both versions. The Kindle Editions offer gorgeous, full-size, panoramic paintings not available in the Paperback Editions. The Kindle Editions of the picture books are not reproductions of the Paperback Editions: the panoramic paintings in the Kindle Editions have 75% more image content to immerse yourself in.

The Artists on Planets Series will amaze, delight, and educate children, parents, and teachers alike. The journey awaits! Come join us!