Gomi invites children to punch out more than 60 fantastic playthings, including ring-toss games, finger puppets, boxes, picture frames, a zoo's worth of animals, and more. Full color. Consumable.

Draw and Color: Cats and Dogs is just the book for anyonewho’s always wanted to draw his or her furry friends. If kids candraw a circle, a square, and a triangle, then they can draw aPersian Himalayan cat, a Pomeranian, a Maine coon, or a pug puppy.Draw and Color: Cats and Dogs takes kids step by step through theprocess of creating an image of each animal — from the first circleof of a Birman kitten’s head to the pattern in the golden fur of aretriever — and double-sided colored pencils allow children totruly bring each critter to life.Quizzes and fun facts abouteveryone from the Chihuahua to the Ragdoll complete this easy andfun package. Soon they ll be creating your own masterpieces — onepaw at a time!

50 Tear-Off Placemats for Mealtime Fun Break out your pens and markers, and help characters get dressed up, tell jokes, choose a pet, go on vacation, and more with this really giant colouring and doodling pad of 52 big place mats Picky eaters and fidgety diners of all ages will love Taro Gomi's signature humour and invitation to imagine and create at mealtime.

Who hasn’t heard of Vincent Van Gogh? The Dutch genius of late Impressionism rings a bell even with children. His beautiful colours and twisted portraits touch everybody, both young and old. Therefore, Ludion presents The Little Van Gogh Museum. Like its predecessor in the series, its concept is to make little children learn their first words, every spread showing a work by Van Gogh (mainly from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam) with juxtaposed, chronologically ordered keywords. Meanwhile, somewhat older kids get a good introduction to his oeuvre, and of course, also parents can enjoy it. If you want to hear your child say 'Sunflower', then buy this book!

From circles and squares to arches and stars, Museum Shapesintroduces children to basic and complex shapes through TheMetropolitan Museum+s extensive and varied collections of art. Eachshape has two spreads devoted to it; the first spread asks whatshape a certain object is in a chosen piece of art. Once the childhas the answer, he or she can turn the page to verify the answer.Information about each piece of art and its creator appears in theback of the book. While children discover different shapes, adultswill appreciate the aesthetic value and cultural richness of thisglorious book, which features the works of a diverse range ofartists including Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, and DanteGabriel Rossetti.

This 128-page doodle book includes activities based many of Roald Dahl’s most famous stories, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and features the iconic artwork of Quentin Blake.

With Draw and Color: Horses and Ponies, aspiring artists canlearn to create masterpieces featuring these stunning creatures,from the Andalusian to the Appaloosa to the Rocky Mountain Pony.Kids use circles to start the horses’ heads, chest, and hips; ovalsfor their muzzles and profiles; and triangles for their uprightears. Then they ll use the double-sided colored pencils and shapederaser to add the final touches to equine friends. And childrenwill delight in the quizzes and fun facts for each horse and ponythat make learning simple and enjoyable.Once children get startedwith Draw and Color: Horses and Ponies, wild horses won’t be ableto keep them away!

Taro Gomi is back with a new addition to the wildly popular Scribbles, Doodles, and Squiggles series. Playful drawings of spring, summer, fall, and winter scenes plus fun-to-follow instructions will have kids of all ages doodling, drawing, and stretching their imaginations all year long!

Nina Laden''s illustrations complement this f unny story that not only introduces children to two of the w orld''s most extraordinary modern artists, but teaches a valu able lesson - how to creatively resolve a conflict. '

50 Tear-Off Placemats for Mealtime Fun Break out your pens and markers, and help the whale spout and the chameleon change colour draw a dog for the doghouse, or horses for the grassy field with this really giant colouring and doodling pad of 52 big place mats Picky eaters and fidgety diners of all ages will love Taro Gomi's signature humour and invitation to imagine and create at mealtime.

These bright, compact hardcovers introduce young readers andtheir parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors,People, Places and Stories--via an assortment of the greatmasterpieces of twentieth century art. Author Philip Yenawine, thelongtime Director of Education at The Museum of Modern Art, iscurrently co-director of Visual Understanding in Education, adevelopmentally based education research organization. He has alsobeen affiliated with education programs at the Metropolitan Museumof Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In ShapesYenawine asks questions like, "Can you find buildings? And roofs?"while looking at a Picasso study. Other Shapes artists includeSeurat, Gauguin, Malevich, Mondrian, Arp, Klee, Smith and Dali.Colors looks at Monet, de Kooning, Kandinsky, Albers, Stella andJohns, among others. Places includes 21 artworks by artists such asHopper, Munch, Klimt, and Bonnard, while People highlights works byBalthus, Degas, Freud, Cezanne, Neel and Rivera. Lines featur

With no text, this board book takes youngsters on a visualwalk through the countryside. Readers can tell the story aloud asthey OwalkO through the book. Full color.

A collection of colourful puzzles appropriate for young children.

This is one of a series of books on modern art created to help very young people learn the basic vocabulary used by artists, a sort of ABC of art. This book isolates lines to show how they are used by artists and how they contribute to meaning in art. By looking at lines and discussing what thoughts and feelings they convey, adults encourage children to develop creative thinking skills. Notes at the back of each book provide brief background information that adults will find useful when talking with children about the images reproduced in these books.

This fully illustrated volume on the life and work of EricCarle contains autobiographical writings of his life and childhoodin wartime Germany, giving a glimpse of the people, circumstancesand events that shaped his life and encouraged his bold, freeformstyle. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable editionof this title.

"The Game of Light" is an inventive game of storytelling withshadows. Part of a bright and lively series of board books thatwork like a game. Full color.

This is no ordinary coloring book! Following the enormously successful Scribbles and Doodles , Taro Gomi invites kids of all ages to not only color, but paint, draw, and imagine. Playful drawings and fun-to-follow instructionsmake this book easy to startbut hard to put down. Artists young and old will be inspired to break out their brushes and stretch their imaginations!