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Pop quiz, cuties. Let’s see what you can make of this one:

How many picture book biographies can you name that are about an artist and are illustrated (but not written) by that same artist?

If you’re anything like me then the answer is easy. One. And that one would be the new book by Amy Alznauer, illustrated by ShanZuo and DaHuang Zhou, Flying Paintings – The Zhou Brothers: A Story of Revolution and Art.

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Need a synopsis? Here’s what the publisher has to say about it:

First there was one Zhou brother, and then there were two. They lived in a bookstore with their grandmother, Po Po, whose stories of paintings that flew through the air and landed on mountain cliffs inspired them to create their own art.

Amid the turbulence of China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1970s, the Zhou Brothers began painting together on the same canvas. Today, ShanZuo and DaHuang Zhou are icons in the art