Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers (by Deborah Heiligman)

This book won a whole bunch of awards, so feel free to take this review with a grain of salt. (Or a grain of sand, like the one we saw through a microscope at the Van Gogh museum because Van Gogh painted one of his canvasses at the beach and it was windy that day.) 

The RHC category was "a YA nonfiction book" and that's probably why this didn't work for me. Although the content was good, and I learned a lot about the Van Gogh brothers, the writing style was super choppy, a bit juvenile and simplistic, and not particularly engaging.  I would much rather have read a biography written for adults, but that wasn't the task. 

I do love that she gave Jo her due though; it was not only Theo but Theo's wife Jo that ensured Vincent's art lived on after both brothers were gone.