DINOSAURS
Kids of all ages can use their creativity to complete sixty-two fun images of prehistoric creatures. Draw a T. rex’s prey, a sabertooth tiger’s fangs, and a variety of dinosaur frills, crests, markings, plates, and spikes. The ready-to-finish illustrations help doodlers get started, providing backgrounds and suggestions for a host of cool scenes from the Age of Reptiles.
Famous African-American Women Coloring Book
The contributions of African-American women to education, civil rights, government, literature, the performing arts, athletics, and other areas are documented in this carefully rendered coloring book. Forty-five illustrations portray activist Coretta Scott King, educator Mary McLeod Bethune, actresses Hattie McDaniel and Ethel Waters, singers Marian Anderson and Ella Fitzgerald, writers Maya Angelou and Zora Neale Hurston, athletes Althea Gibson and Wilma Rudolph, as well as: Sojourner Truth; Phillis Wheatley; Oprah Winfrey; Toni Morrison; Whitney Houston; Shirley Chisholm; Leontyne Price; Jackie Joyner-Kersee; Rosa Parks; and 26 other notable figures.
Informative captions highlight the remarkable achievements of these women.
Informative captions highlight the remarkable achievements of these women.
FANTASTIC FANTASY
More satisfying than coloring, more challenging than drawing on blank paper, this activity book will inspire junior artists to complete 62 illustrations in their own personal style. Kids can decorate a wizard’s robe, design a knight’s shield, depict a goblin’s steed, draft a fantasy map, draw a hat for Puss-in-Boots, illustrate what a princess discovered in the forest, create a city for the underwater mer-people, add ears to the head of an ogre, and much more. Then they can color each page!
FARM ANIMALS
This easy-to-follow guide makes it a snap for aspiring artists of all ages to draw everyone’s favorite barnyard buddies. If you’ve never been able to create a likeness of an animal, you’ll welcome the book’s effective step-by-step diagrams.
Using circles, ovals, and other geometric shapes, the diagrams build appealing images of a turkey, duck, horse, cow, and 26 other farm animals. Not only will you learn to make realistic drawings, you’ll be on the way to mastering the basics of shape development and the fundamentals of form and dimension as well!
Using circles, ovals, and other geometric shapes, the diagrams build appealing images of a turkey, duck, horse, cow, and 26 other farm animals. Not only will you learn to make realistic drawings, you’ll be on the way to mastering the basics of shape development and the fundamentals of form and dimension as well!
First Cookbook for Children
Finally, a beginning cookbook designed especially for children — and one that adds the fun of coloring to the joy of cooking. A First Cookbook for Children contains a wide variety of yummy, mouth-watering recipes that kids love and love to fix: cheeseburgers, chicken, pizza, salads, sauces, desserts, dips, and much more.
Assuming no previous cooking experience, the author gently guides the reader from start to finish with special sections on muffins, cakes, meat loaf, chicken, dips & dunks, corn bread, scalloped potatoes, biscuits, salads, hamburgers, fish, cookies, macaroni & cheese, pancakes, candies, dressings, pizza, baked ham, crudités, and rice.
Simple, easy-to-follow instructions plus clear explanations of ingredients and utensils take a child through each step of food preparation and actual cooking. A helpful introduction includes lists of necessary equipment and basic ingredients along with five sample menus. A fun first cookbook for kids ages 10 and up, this volume offers 60 sure-to-please recipes.
Assuming no previous cooking experience, the author gently guides the reader from start to finish with special sections on muffins, cakes, meat loaf, chicken, dips & dunks, corn bread, scalloped potatoes, biscuits, salads, hamburgers, fish, cookies, macaroni & cheese, pancakes, candies, dressings, pizza, baked ham, crudités, and rice.
Simple, easy-to-follow instructions plus clear explanations of ingredients and utensils take a child through each step of food preparation and actual cooking. A helpful introduction includes lists of necessary equipment and basic ingredients along with five sample menus. A fun first cookbook for kids ages 10 and up, this volume offers 60 sure-to-please recipes.
Flower Power Stained Glass Coloring Book
Color a garden of eye-popping floral patterns! This imaginative collection of flowered patterns offers creative coloring fun for artists of all ages. Sixteen original designs exhibit an exciting variety of artful retro designs. After coloring, hold the translucent pages up to a window for a stained glass glow. They’ll add a flowery touch to mobiles and other crafts projects.
Frederick Douglass Coloring Book
Thirty realistic images to color portray the life of the great orator, author, and statesman, from his birth in a slave cabin to his appointment as U.S. Minister to Haiti. Informative captions accompany illustrations depicting Douglass’s escape from slavery, his abolitionist activities, agitation for emancipation and voting rights for blacks, and other achievements.
Fun with Favorite Pets Stencils
Here’s an educational activity book that’s also fun to use. Six sturdy, ready-to-use “open” stencils — no pieces to cut or punch out — allow little hands to trace and color favorite pets. Printed on durable cardboard stock, stencils of a dog, cat, turtle, fish, rabbit, and parrot will stand up to repeated use. Three- to eight-year-olds will enjoy re-creating familiar pets; parents and teachers will recognize the importance of a collection that helps youngsters acquire basic motor skills.
FUNNY FACES
Beginning artists will find it a snap to create humorous portraits with this simple drawing guide. Step-by-step lessons show how to draw little girls with unusual ponytails, a bearded leprechaun, a balding man, a lady with a funny hat, and other odd faces by combining ovals and circles and adding curvy lines and squiggles. 116 black-and-white illustrations plus blank practice pages.
George Washington Coloring Book
Born and raised among the wealthy, slave-holding aristocracy of colonial Virginia, George Washington devoted his life to the establishment and success of America as an independent nation. A surveyor at 16 and a lieutenant colonel in the French and Indian War at 22, he managed to spend a few years as a gentleman farmer on his Mount Vernon estate before the Revolutionary War began. Elected commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led the Patriot forces in battle against England for eight turbulent years before helping the colonies gain their independence. Later, with the fledgling nation in need of firm leadership, Washington was unanimously elected the first president of the United States of America.
Artist Peter Copeland captures these outstanding events in the life of this revered American. Forty-two ready-to-color illustrations depict such memorable scenes as his participation in the war between Britain and France, his proposal of marriage to Martha Custis, his appointment as commander of the patriot forces, his election to two terms as the American president, and his funeral in Mount Vernon.
Informative captions accompany detailed illustrations in an entertaining coloring book that will also serve as a practical reference for young students of American history.
Artist Peter Copeland captures these outstanding events in the life of this revered American. Forty-two ready-to-color illustrations depict such memorable scenes as his participation in the war between Britain and France, his proposal of marriage to Martha Custis, his appointment as commander of the patriot forces, his election to two terms as the American president, and his funeral in Mount Vernon.
Informative captions accompany detailed illustrations in an entertaining coloring book that will also serve as a practical reference for young students of American history.
Goodnight Stained Glass Coloring Book
Kids will do anything to avoid “lights out,” but sharing this little bear’s soothing bedtime rituals can ease their way to Dreamland. Stained glass images include 16 engaging moments—taking a bath, stepping into bunny slippers, reading a story, singing a song, and other cozy scenes. Plus, gaily decorated borders for each illustration add extra elements to color. Place the finished pages near a window or lamp for lovely stained glass effects.