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A wonderful collection of funny, thoughtful, and whimsical ideas designed to set a child's imagination soaring into a wonderful new world of originality.
The Anti-Coloring Books® are international best-sellers and have been favorite creative tools for parents, educators, and therapists since the first book appeared in 1978.
Coloring books cheat kids They impose adult perceptions on a child's inventiveness and the result is stunted self-expression, imagination and self-reliance. The Anti-Coloring Books® are the first alternative drawing book. There is no right or wrong; just the endless promise of a child's creative instincts.
These books provide a fantastic playground that sparks creativity, affirms individuality, and fosters healthy self-expression. A treasure trove of ideas that will encourage and free a child's imagination. So, get out your markers and crayons, put on your thinking caps, and let’s go!
Art concepts from A to Z…. because a picture really is worth 1000 words.
An antidote to the kind of “art” that tells kids to draw a triangle on top of a rectangle and call it a house. In these delightful pages, children – as well as adults – are encouraged to see buildings, gardens, rooms, and other environments in fresh, original ways.
Artists at Work introduces children to the many exciting ways creativity can become a lucrative career. Young artists step into the roles of cartoonists, photographers, sculptors, fashion designers, graphic artists, museum curators, and other creative professionals to learn about how they can use their own talent and interests in their chosen life’s work.
Build a Better Mousetrap challenges children to dream up computers, robots, automobiles, amusement park rides, clever machines, unusual gadgets, and even inventions that serve no practical purpose at all. Playful, inventive, and sometimes wonderfully impractical, the book celebrates experimentation, problem-solving, and the thrill of turning a wild idea into an original invention.
Because of their built-in excitement, holidays present ideal opportunities for encouraging creativity and self-expression. At the same time, through art, children can get closer to the significance of a holiday. Whether it’s Kwanza, Halloween, Christmas, Hanukkah, the first day of summer, or even national magic week.
The Circus brings children under the circus tent and gives them a starring role in creating the greatest show on earth. They can invent hilarious clowns, tame ferocious lions, soar through the air on a trapeze, dream up daring acrobatic stunts, design circus costumes, and even create a fabulous outfit for an elephant. Every page captures the excitement, humor, spectacle, and imagination of the circus while inviting children to make the show entirely their own.
Calling all young detectives! The Mystery Anti-Coloring Book® is filled with puzzling situations, curious clues, strange happenings, and mysteries waiting to be solved.
From ancient times to modern, artists have copied, borrowed from, satirized, and honored each other’s art. Now children can look to the master’s for inspiration and instruction.These works of art provide a brief introduction to art history thru active participation.
Nature’s Wonders invites children to discover the extraordinary beauty of the natural world—from the great outdoors to the fascinating things waiting to be noticed in their own backyards. Drawing activities are combined with hands-on projects, recommended books, songs, and ideas for further exploration. This book is written to inspire artists to become future environmental activists.
Newspaper invites young journalists to cover local and school events, report on sports, review movies and theater, follow international news, investigate an archaeological discovery, create comics, and tackle newspaper-style puzzles. Along the way, children strengthen reading, writing and drawing skills while learning that newspapers can be a better alternative to the internet.
With the superpower’s characters leading the way, children strive to emulate their heroes, make decisions, strengthen their self-confidence and to develop their own best powers for the years to come.
If you would like to see this book back in print and added to The Anti-Coloring Book® app, please contact Grosset and Dunlap, a division of the Putnam Publishing group.
A celebration of the special day that we welcome the spirits of dead relatives who return to visit the living world .
Gaily colored, wildly imaginative carvings from Mexico delight children and adults! From A for Armadillo to Z for Zebra, this unique collection of fanciful animalitos parade thru the alphabet with wild abandon.
Because why should kids have all the fun?
