Great Lives in Graphics: Mozart reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolour, presenting 250+ fascinating facts in a new and exciting way.

You may already know that Mozart was a child prodigy, but did you know that he had a pet starling?

Or that his letters are full of rhyming poo jokes?

The graphic retelling of Mozart’s story which gives children a colourful snapshot of his life and the world he grew up in, while educating them on everything from the history of music to the Age of Enlightenment.

The Great Lives in Graphics series is a new way of looking at the lives of famous and influential people. It takes the essential dates and achievements of each person’s life, mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia, and uses infographics to show them in a fresh visual way that is genuinely engaging for children and young adults.

The result is a colourful, fascinating, and often surprising representation of that person’s life, work, and legacy. Using timelines, maps, repeated motifs and many more beautiful and informative illustrations, readers learn not just about the main subject of the book but also about the cultural background of the time in which they lived.