Missing Monkey

From the "ART DETECTIVES" series

Can the works of art become alive? What about the possibility to step into a painting and experience the depicted story? What are the secrets that the artists have hidden in their paintings?

The "Art Detectives" books invite you behind the scenes of the art world, full of adventures and mysteries. The series features the young detectives Theo and Button and their sausage-dog Comma, who investigate the hidden secrets of works by some of the best-known Latvian artists.

The plot of this book develops as the two detectives pursue the small monkey who has suddenly disappeared from the 1913 painting by Janis Rozentāls "Princess with a Monkey". In a miraculous way Theo and Button get into the world of the painting where in the result of exciting experiences they find out, who the princess and her little playmate are.

Seven titles have been published in the "Art Detectives" series - "Missing Monkey", "Invisible Man", "Arrival of a Stranger", "The Mask", "Last King", "Untitled" and "Secret Password". In all books, readers dive into the greatest chase in the history of the art world, meeting famous Latvian artists (Janis Rozentāls, Niklāvs Strunke, etc) or artists that have roots in Latvian territory (Mark Rothko).

Publisher: Neputns; Illustrator: Elina Braslina.

Rights sold:

French