Your budding artists will learn how to draw vibrant pieces of art with crayons in this captivatingly creative volume. Through the accessible and age-appropriate activities, readers are presented with fun drawing examples supported by step-by-step instructions. This allows readers to easily follow clear directions in order to create their own colorful masterpieces. Eye-catching illustrations add to this enjoyable artistic experience and provide readers...

A professional artist and animator shows kids how to unleash their imagination on the page. Using pencil or ink, learn how to draw all kinds of strange creatures, from classic monsters to mythical beasts and abominable aliens. With dozens of process drawings as examples, this children's book illustrator demonstrates creative techniques such as doodles, sketches, and scribbles, and shows children not just how to draw, but how to be creative.

"No one understands the abstract pictures that Niko draws until a new friend sees the thought and feeling within his shapes and forms"--Provided by publisher.

"A riveting and brilliantly plotted psychological suspense, this razor-sharp debut will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking ending. In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code; little chalk stick figures they leave for each other as messages only they...

When the other girls discourage Grace from dancing, she draws pictures to make herself feel better and succeeds in a surprising way.

Scribble invites Circle, Square, and Triangle to play and together they make all sorts of things, such as a tree, a hot air balloon, and a rocket ship.

"As an artist creatively incorporates her slipups into a drawing, readers see the ways in which 'mistakes' can provide inspiration and opportunity, and reveal that both the art and artist are works-in-progress"--Provided by publisher.

Ben loves to draw and does so in all of his classes, but his drawings of people are so good he is afraid to let his classmates see them, until the day he loses his notebook and his talent is revealed.