Leonardo da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities

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ONE A Boy in Vinci he baby's mother rushed out to the yard waving her arms A hawk was perched on her child's cra dle Shoo she cried The bird lifted its wings and flew off For a moment she thought it would grasp the baby in its claws to carry him away over the hills but the child was safe When she reached down to pick him up he was following the hawk's flight with his eyes and smiling The child Leonardo was born on April 15 1452 in a mountainous region of Italy called Tuscany near the small village of Vinci His mother Caterina was a young peasant woman beautiful and poor His father Ser Piero was an ambitious young man from a wealthy family who was just beginning his career as a notary Leonardo's parents did not marry each oth er As a baby Leonardo stayed with his mother When he was almost two years old he was taken from her home and raised on his father's