Product Description

Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent. Growing up in a home with an atheistic mother and a non-participating Catholic fa

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Product Details

Publisher	Thomas Nelson
ISBN	0849900441
Features	ISBN13: 9780849900440 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Format	Hardcover
Author	Akiane Kramarik
EAN	9780849900440
Label	Thomas Nelson
Edition	1st Printing
Dewey Decimal Number	700.92
Studio	Thomas Nelson
Number Of Pages	144
Title	Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry
Publication Date	2006-03-07
Manufacturer	Thomas Nelson

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Customer Reviews

Absolutely Uplifting and Wonderful - Praise God

Review by JanLorraine, 2010-05-03

I can't say enough wonderful feelings about this book and Akiane. I bought One for myself and 5 others as gifts. Whenever I think of someone to give it to again, I will order more. Akiane is extremely talented and gifted by God. I highly recommend this book.

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Will inspire you

Review by Shayne Fisher, 2010-04-06

I think if you have established relations with God, religion, or spirituality, this book is a great supplement to your regular diet of spiritual material. For me though, it was more important for me to establish a belief in something greater than myself, as a extreme narcisist, it was a breath of fresh air to just open the doors into something wonderful. Akiane's poetry is obscure but at times powerful and compassionate, her painting is immaculate. Enjoy. A great coffee table piece.

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The art section is good, at least.

Review by Robert P. Beveridge, 2010-03-16

Akiane and Foreli Kramarik, Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry (Thomas Nelson, 2006)

In the first section of the book, Foreli Kramarik claims that Akiane "is regarded as the youngest binary prodigy in both realistic art and poetry in recorded history." While you're mulling on that, let me tell you about a convenience store near me. It changed management and name a couple of years ago, and right afterwards they rented a billboard about half a mile away and claimed on it that they are "rated the #1 store." Now, I'm not sure if anyone else sees something like that and does this, but when I first saw it, I said, "by who? and where?" That billboard is still there, and I still don't have the answers. Similarly, I want to know who's calling Akiane Kramarik a "prodigy" in poetry so I can laugh at him/her/them.

The piece they chose to use on the flap is representative, at least:
"I can not stop holding my brush
On the blank canvas I sign
With blindfolded balance I paint my own eyes
Blue is the color of the mind

Do God's footprints follow his footsteps
Nobody hears what I see
We cannot trespass our creator
My sight can not wait for me"
("My Sight Cannot Wait for Me")

I ended up going back and taking out the [sic]s because I'd dropped so many of them in there. I mean, come on, even Helen Steiner Rice would have burned that, and she was the worst poet in history. (And what's up with "cannot" being correct in the title and wrong twice in the piece itself? Very confusing.) I'd planned on adding a sample from another poem, but there's just too much here, and all of it is this awful. Akiane is not a worse poet than Mattie Stepanek, but she's right in that area.

Having blasted the first and last sections of the book, I figure I should address the middle. There's no denying that Kramarik is a talented visual artist, one whose technique is far, far beyond her years. The paintings themselves are impressive (and the single star in the rating is attributed solely to them). But, no, I couldn't get through a section of this book without something bugging me, and that's the interpretations under the majority of the paintings. I may be assuming here, and if so I apologize, but in reading those interpretations I get the feeling that Kramarik is one of those artists whose vision leaves no room for the validity of any interpretation of a piece that would conflict with hers. That's one of my pet peeves with artists working in any medium. It annoys me even with artists of whose work I am perhaps overly fond (there's one novelist I love in particular who spouts off on this topic on a regular basis. It drives me up the wall). She's very specific about what everything in a particular painting means, and it makes me wonder what would happen if someone were to mount a different (but still valid) interpretation of one of her paintings.

The middle third of the book: interesting, if you ignore the text. The rest of it: awful. *

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Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry

Review by C. Knioum, 2010-03-15

This is a beautiful book! This child's paintings are inspiring and uplifting. The story of her life up until now absolutely amazes you. I hope another book like this is in the works.

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Wow

Review by Lori Tan, 2010-02-26

This is an amazing journey into the life of a girl who is a brilliant painter and poet. She has an amazing relationship with God. It was very inspiring to see the beauty that came out of her into her artwork and to read about her entire story. The text and pictures are great. Must read!

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