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ABRAMS BOOKS Faces, Places, and Inner Spaces: A Guide to Looking at Art  
Faces, Places, and Inner Spaces is a wonderful, innovative book that will get children to look at art in a whole new way. This book gives examples of how artists use faces, places, and inner spaces and explains how artists come to their unique visions.

Featured are an African ...

ANDREW MCMEEL PUBLISHING The Origami Writing Set  
Origami is the Japanese word for "folding paper." Every time you fold a letter for an envelope or wrap a present, you are doing origami. Providing a stylishly unique and artistic way to create personal stationery, The Origami Writing Set creatively pairs this ancient art with the renewed enthusiasm ...

BARRON'S Creative Fun: Egyptian Activity Book  
Boys and girls who open this activity book will take a fascinating step back in time as they explore an ancient civilization. The book presents maps, time lines, and fun facts about ancient Egypt, and instructs in crafts activities for kids that reflect ancient Egypt’s culture and technology.

Projects that ...

CHRONICLE BOOKS Art Activity Packs  
The Art Activity Packs, featuring dozens of activities, have been praised by both parents and teachers alike; each book is chock-full of innovative, educational fun. In this series, readers will learn about some of the world’s best known artists – from Monet and Matisse to Cezanne and Picasso – ...

CHRONICLE BOOKS Masterpieces Up Close  
Masterpieces Up Close sends readers on a journey through the world's most famous paintings from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. They will see some familiar faces, like Leonardo's Mona Lisa and Warhol's Marilyn, and meet some that may be new to them, like the princess in Velázquez's ...

CREATIVITY FOR KIDS Create Your Own Books  
Write and illustrate these blank books and create your own best seller! The kit’s two high-quality hardcover books measure 8 1/4 in. x 11 in. and 6 1/4 in. x 8 1/4 in.

The larger book has printed lines to help young authors. The smaller book includes a die-cut frame. ...

DOVER A First Sudoku Book  
This whimsically illustrated sudoku book is specially designed for kids. Its 48 puzzles are geared toward players from the ages of 8 to 13, but anyone can enjoy them. All you have to do is fill in the squares with the digits 1 through 9 in such a way ...

DOVER A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairies: Paper Dolls  
Illustrator Tom Tierney has dressed the characters in this comedy classic – Oberon, King of the Fairies; the mischievous Puck, Moth, and Peaseblossom – in apparel of Shakespeare's time. Lovely, diaphanous robes comprise wardrobes for the lovely Titania, Queen of the Fairies; and for the charming woodland fairy figures ...

DOVER All Aboard!: Trains Activity and Coloring Book  
If you're looking for a fun book about trains, choo-choo-choose this one! Ride the rails with 25 pages of simple brainteasers, including hidden pictures, crosswords, and connect-the-dots – they ALL feature trains! You’ll find a train circling a Christmas tree, a weird railroad station with things not as they ...

DOVER Alphabet Hidden Picture Coloring Book  
In this captivating coloring book, artist Anna Pomaska combines the entertaining challenge of finding cleverly concealed objects in a drawing with the fun-filled activity of coloring. Along the way, youngsters are introduced to the letters of the alphabet and objects beginning with those letters. All subjects are described in ...

DOVER Alphabet Mazes Coloring Book  
Blaze a trail through a juicy apple, a buzzing bee, a seagoing sailboat, and other objects. When you're finished traveling, you can color the big pictures in each of the 26 mazes, one for each letter of the alphabet. If you get stuck, just take a peek at the ...

DOVER Animal Mazes  
This entertaining book by veteran puzzle maker Dave Phillips offers youngsters a funfest filled with two of their favorite subjects: cuddly animals and challenging mazes. With patience - and a bit of foresight and determination - children can lead such engaging characters as Milton Mouse, Dixie Dragonfly, Larry Lobster ...

DOVER Ballet Princesses Paper Doll  
This adorable little girl likes to pretend she's a ballet dancer and a princess. She gets to play both roles in this charming paper doll collection. You can dress perky Patricia in gorgeous costumes worn by dancers who played princesses in eight world-famous ballets, including The Nutcracker, The Firebird, ...

DOVER Brides from Around the World Paper Dolls  
Four lovely brides model 28 elegant costumes from various countries of Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America. Bridal wardrobes include a flowing Celtic robe from the medieval period, a Chinese tunic of red silk, a contemporary Philippine wedding gown, as well as lovely ensembles from Holland, Zimbabwe, Korea, Mexico, ...

DOVER Bunny Rabbit Mazes  
This little book invites you to help bunny rabbits find their way through some mazes with lots of twists and turns. There are 48 mazes in all. To solve them, you'll be asked to take little cottontails along winding paths to school, lead a hungry bunny to a slice ...

DOVER Create Your Own Animal Sticker Pictures  
Create your own scenes filled with animal adventures by using these illustrations of snakes, frogs, horses, and other real animals. Just apply stickers to background scenes depicting a petting zoo, farm, desert, jungle, rainforest, and seven other actual environments.

An astounding 300 reusable stickers are included!

DOVER Create Your Own Farm Sticker Picture  
Here's a fun-filled, educational way to learn about life on a farm. It's easy with this colorful, exciting activity book that lets you create your own farm scene, complete with farm buildings, animals and farm children. 32 full color stickers, including a farm boy and girl, hay cart, ducks, ...

DOVER Create Your Own Playtime Sticker Pictures  
Use these sticker illustrations of cute kids and cuddly animals to create happy scenes. Just peel and apply the over 300 reusable images to create fun-filled times at the beach, fantasy settings for Alice in Wonderland and the Little Mermaid, busy activities in the kitchen and at ballet class, ...

DOVER Cut and Fold Paper Spaceships That Fly  
Children of all ages will delight in this collection of 16 space age gliders direct from the 21st century! They're easy to put together with scissors, tape and a paper clip, and best of all-- they really fly! To assemble the space ships, just follow the simple step-by-step instructions ...

DOVER Easy Mazes Activity Book  
Here's the perfect first book of mazes for young children! For this special collection, children's book author and artist Anna Pomaska has created 46 cleverly illustrated mazes that are not only fun to do but also help develop puzzle-solving capabilities of youngsters ages 4 - 8. Simple rhymes accompany ...

DOVER Fairyland Hidden Pictures  
With this magical book of 24 hidden pictures, you can be a fairyland detective and search out the everyday items concealed under a gnome's toadstool, beside a dragon's tail, and next to an elf's shoe. Clues appear on each page, and solutions are provided at the end.

Author: Diana Zourelias
Format: ...

DOVER Famous Torch Singers Paper Dolls  
This stunning paper doll collection pays tribute to those lovely ladies of song whose intimate and distinctive vocal deliveries rang with stylish sophistication. Sixteen dolls, modeling 32 costumes, depict images of Lena Horne, Peggy Lee, Josephine Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Frances Langford, Rosemary Clooney, and eight ...

DOVER Fun at Nursery School Coloring & Sticker Book  
Youngsters will love adding color and bringing to life pleasant scenes of nursery school activities. 25 illustrations depict boys and girls painting, reading, enjoying a snack, playing outdoors, and more. 27 peel-and-apply stickers (perfect for creating your own classroom scenes) add to the fun.

Book specifications: paperback, 32 pgs., 8 ...

DOVER Fun with Animal Mazes  
30 large, appealing and easy-to-solve labyrinths—all enhanced with whimsical drawings that are ideal for coloring—invite youngsters to help a salamander find some bugs, lead a chipmunk to her family, show a sea horse the path to seaweed, and more. 8 1/4 in. x 11 in. 32 pgs. Dover Publications, ...

DOVER Fun with Christmas Ornaments Stencils  
Christmas is a time to decorate. These ready-to-use stencils of Christmas tree balls, a snowman, a rocking horse, an angel, and Santa Claus are an excellent way to brighten up the holidays.

Simply trace the outlines and color to create your own wrapping paper, greeting cards, or other holiday decorations.

Book ...

DOVER Fun with Noah's Ark Stencils  
Elephants, giraffes, kangaroos, bears, and other creatures are ready to board the ark. Noah's there too! These 12 sturdy stencil images are perfect for decorating walls, furniture, or for simply creating a parade of these famous passengers and their large boat.

Book specifications: paperback, 6 pgs., 4 1/8 in. x ...

DOVER Girls from Around the World: Sticker Paper Dolls  
Meet 12 new friends from around the world and dress them in sticker costumes from their native lands. Over 300 stickers are included – use them again and again to dress them as many times as you want!

Book specifications: paperback, 18 pgs., 8 1/4 in. x 11 1/2 in.
Publisher: ...

DOVER How to Draw Christmas Pictures  
Design holiday cards, ornaments, and window decorations by following simple diagrams composed of circles, squares, ovals, and other configurations. Just a few strokes will produce ready-to-color pictures of Santa, an elf and angel, a snowman, candy cane, rocking horse, and other traditional objects.

Author: Barbara Soloff Levy
Format: paperback, 30 pgs., ...

DOVER How to Draw Forest Animals  
Ever come face to face with a forest wolf spider or star-nosed mole? Using the most basic of shapes, this book shows how easy it can be to draw 30 forest animals, including common creatures such as a skunk, raccoon, fox, and moose.

Author: Barbara Soloff Levy
Format: paperback, 32 pgs., ...

DOVER How to Draw Funny Monsters  
Simple, step-by-step diagrams make it easy to create a one-eyed centipede; a scowling, four-legged fright that's literally all head; and 28 other comical creatures. Barbara Levy's fun-filled, how-to guide is designed for youngsters but will equally delight aspiring cartoonists of all ages. Paperback book measures 8 1/4 in. x ...

DOVER I Love Ballet Coloring & Sticker Book  
Color exciting scenes of talented Catie and her friends at ballet school where they're practicing new dance positions, leaps, and pirouettes for a recital. Or, use the 26 sticker illustrations included in the book to create your very own ballet scenes. (The stickers also work well on notebooks, windows, ...

DOVER Little Egyptian Mazes  
Here are 40 challenging, fun-to-solve mazes perfect for introducing small children to the people and culture of ancient Egypt. Children are asked to help an archaeologist search for King Tut's treasure, show a sleepy crocodile how to reach a sunny rock in a stream, guide and Egyptian boatman home ...

DOVER Maze Mania  
Don’t step on the sleeping dragons…don’t slip on the slithering snakes…ski down the wild winding slopes…plow through a plate of spaghetti and meatballs!

You’ll have lots of fun with these twisty adventures that will take you up in the sky, down in the sea, through the forest, under the ground, ...

DOVER My First Book of Number Fun  
50 full-page puzzles encourage kids to tell time, solve crosswords, connect the dots, count fanciful objects, and figure out other challenges. After solving the puzzles, kids can grab their crayons and have even more fun with the large easy-to-color illustrations.

The book includes helpful solutions to all puzzles. For ages ...

DOVER Origami Aircraft  
Clear instructions and step-by-step diagrams show advanced paperfolders (and enthusiastic beginners) how to construct origami aircraft that actually fly! Sixteen planes, among them the Bandit, Shadow, Firestorm, and Cyclone, are all made from square sheets of paper and are fully functional. The planes soar, landing gear retracts, cockpits open, ...

DOVER Picture Puzzle Pandemonium  
Put on your thinking cap and treat yourself to a collection of rebus puzzles that ask you to combine words, pictures, and letters to produce an answer. The clever riddles will have you puzzling over images of a dotted lion, the U.S. Mint, a panda chomping on dollar bills, ...

DOVER The Little Animal Follow-The-Dots Coloring Book  
This little book combines all the fun of solving follow-the-dots puzzles with the special excitement of creating and coloring pictures of favorite animals. As they "sketch" 56 different creatures - a koala, kangaroo, hen, giraffe, penguin, bullfrog, donkey, skunk, pony, and more - children develop important cognitive and motor ...

GOOD YEAR BOOKS Ancient and Living Cultures: Ancient China Stencils  
This engaging activity book introduces children to the culturally rich and mythic world of ancient China. Children learn about Chinese decorative arts, papermaking, the silk trade, and festivals by making five fun projects: bronze vessel, paper lantern, landscape painting, embroidered book cover, and lion mask.

Inside you’ll also find: an ...

GOOD YEAR BOOKS Ancient and Living Cultures: Ancient Egypt and Nubia  
In this fun activity book, children will travel to ancient Egypt and Nubia and learn about pyramids, hieroglyphs, mummies, kings and queens, and everyday life. Using stencils, children can make and decorate five art projects: Nubian crown, amulet, sistrum, papyrus scroll, and cartouche.

Inside you’ll also find: an informative introduction, ...

GOOD YEAR BOOKS Ancient and Living Cultures: Ancient Greece Stencils  
Five exciting art activities take children on a journey through Ancient Greece. Children will learn about Greek architecture, gods and goddesses, famous heroes and heroines, and many other aspects of Greek culture by making a bronze helmet, comedy and tragedy masks, a temple vase, and a discus.

Inside you’ll also ...

GOOD YEAR BOOKS Ancient and Living Cultures: Ancient Japan Stencils  
This fascinating activity book reveals ancient Japan’s relationship to nature and the seasons during the Edo period – a time of the shogun and samurai warriors as well as cherry blossom festivals and haiku poetry. Using symbols of ancestral crests and nature designs, children will learn about ancient Japanese ...

GOOD YEAR BOOKS Ancient and Living Cultures: Ancient Mexico Stencils  
Five easy-to-do art projects take children on a journey through Mexico’s past from early Meso-American civilization up to the Aztec Indians, where they learn about these “People of the Sun.” Children will meet the gods of creation, rain, wind, and sun through myths and stories and will learn to ...

GOOD YEAR BOOKS Ancient and Living Cultures: South India Stencils  
This fun and informative activity book takes children on an inspiring journey through South India. Using stencils based on traditional designs, children will enjoy learning about the culture, daily and ceremonial life, and history of South India while creating five projects: painted horse, door archway, festival banner, drum, and ...

GOOD YEAR BOOKS Ancient and Living Cultures: West Africa -- Nigeria  
This captivating activity book introduces children to the amazing and mythic world of the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria. Children will learn about Yoruba rites and rituals, masquerade, art, and music through five fun-filled art activities: a mask, palace door, adire cloth, armlet, and talking drum.

Inside you’ll also find: an ...

GOOD YEAR BOOKS Celebrating Diversity with Art  
This almanac of exciting art activities colors the year with special holidays, events, and issues. Six hands-on projects for every month actively involve students and hold their interest as they explore such themes as National Hobby Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Women's History Month, Zoo and Aquarium Month, and more.

For ...

KLUTZ A Book of Artrageous Projects  
Make a mess with this book! (Just try to make it an artistic mess.) Sketch a monkey, paint a monster, emboss a bracelet, wrap a mummy, make a fancy letter, make a sun print, weave a picture, create a collage, sticker a masterpiece, and much more!

The book comes with ...

KLUTZ Building Cards: How to Build Castles  
Complete instructions for the budding castle-builder. Kit contains 150 reusable building card pieces to help you create and design your own castle. Sturdy slot-together construction so no glue or nails necessary. For ages 8+. Klutz, 2005. ISBN 157054204X

KLUTZ Hand Art  
Hand Art is about everything you