The brilliant jewel-toned illustrations in this book mirror the style of Frida Kahlo herself. The story is not of Frida's life, but of her transformation into her own strong, independent, and equally talented artistic self for which she is known today. In the beginning of this story, we see Frida as a lonely, unsure, wife of the great Diego Rivera. But by the end of the book, she has painted her famous wedding portrait of herself with her husband Diego. And we learn that the unveiling of this piece, with the symbolic larger-than-life Diego, and the small, almost hidden in the background Frida Kahlo, she finally puts herself first, literally, on the violet ribbon where she wrote, "Here you see us, me, Frida Kahlo, with my adored husband Diego Rivera." The book's illustrations of San Francisco, where Kahlo roamed while Rivera painted, are truly works of art in their own rite.
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