Small children are drawn to soft shapes and bright colors. Perhaps that is why Pablo Picasso was one the most famous artists in the twentieth century. His imaginative portraits and inviting subject matter reach the inner child in all of us. Picasso's exploration of color, style, and subject matter includes the popular form of Cubism, in which he experiments with geometric shapes, overlapping forms, and an indefinite sense of space.

Margaret Hyde has chosen ten of the artist's twenty thousand works and presented them in a format accessible to small children. Portraits of the artist's...