Camille befriends Vincent Van Gogh after he moves to Camille's village. Vincent is a poor painter without money or friends. Camille helps Vincent and brings him sunflowers. Vincent paints portraits of Camille and his family. The other children laugh at Camille's portrait, upsetting him. Over time, the villagers grow to dislike Vincent. When some villagers come to force Vincent to leave, Camille warns his friend. Vincent sadly leaves the village, giving Camille a painting of his sunflowers before departing. The summary concludes that Vincent Van Gogh's paintings are now very valuable and appreciated worldwide.

2. Where
Camille
lived,
the
sunflowers grew so high they
looked like real suns.

3. Every day he crossed the sunflower
field to meet his father, the
postman.

4. He loved to
help his
father unload
the bags of
mail from the
train every
day.

5. One day, a strange man
came
to
Camille´s village.

6. Hello! I´m
Vincent, the
painter.

7. He came to live in the little
yellow house on Camille´s
street.
He had no money and no
friends.

8. Camille and his father
decided to help him and
they took furniture to his
new house.

9. Camille took
bunch
sunflowers and
put them in
brown vase.
a
of
he
a

10. Vincent was very happy, so he painted a portrait
of Camille´s father.

11. The portrait
strange,
beautiful!
was
but

12. He also painted
portraits of his
mother,
his big brother
and of his baby
sister.

13. And, of course, he
painted a portrait
of
Camille.

14. Camille was very proud of his portrait. He took it
to school because he wanted to show it to his
friends.

15. But they didn´t like it and they laughed at him.
That made Camille feel very sad.

16. After school, some of the children ran after
Vincent when he was going to paint.
It´s time for you to get a real job!

17. I´m sad, I can´t
sell my
paintings!
Camille spent
hours watching
Vincent paint. He
could draw
landscapes,
mountains and the
sun.
If I had money I
would buy them all!

18. Some of the older boys threw stones at Vincent
and laughed at him. But he never lost his smile.

19. Camille saw the beauty in
Vincent's art and it hurt him to
discover that the other villagers
did not appreciate Vincent's
talent and did not like having
him live in their village.
People laugh at things they don´t
understand, but I´ve got a feeling
that Vincent´s art will be loved one
day.

20. That night Camille had a
strange dream. In his dream,
Vincent was painting the
stars.

21. Vincent must leave
this town!
He woke up in
the middle of
the night.
Some of the
villagers had
come to see his
father.

22. Camille ran off to Vincent
´s yellow house. He
wanted to warn his
friend.

23. When he opened the door, he
saw the sunflowers. They
were all dry and dead.
Camille felt very sad.

24. Vincent was in his bedroom
packing his bags.
He looked tired, but he smiled
when he saw Camille.

25. Don´t be sad Camille! I
´ll move to another
village where they may
like my paintings!

26. Before I go, I´d
like to show you
something.

27. It was a painting of Camille´s
sunflowers!
They looked brighter than
ever!

28. Goodbye Sunflower
man!

29. Camille´s father was right. People learned to love Vincent
´s paintings. Today they cost a lot of money.

30. Nowadays people from all over the
world go to museums to see the
paintings of Camille and his family, the
Yellow house and, especially, the
Sunflowers.
Cuento original:
Laurence Aholt,
“Camille y los girasoles”

31. Do you want to learn more
about Vincent Van Gogh????

32. YES, PLEASE!!!!!!