Splat the Cat: Doodle & Draw


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Attention, Splat fans! Now for the first time comes an all-new Splat adventure—where you create the pictures! With sixty-four pages of fun-filled activities, this hilarious Splat doodle and draw book is sure to bring out your creative side!




Splat Doodles


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Splat Doodles includes 128 pages of ink blots, blobs, and splotches in a range of brilliant colors. With their own pens, pencils, or markers, or with the 125 stickers included with the book, kids can transform these plain pages into delightful doodles. From crazy creatures to mad machines to funny faces, their imaginations will run wild.




The Odd Egg


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This classic picture book with split pages that allow the visual jokes to unfold, celebrates its 15th anniversary in this new edition featuring extra content from the multi-award winning Emily Gravett.All the birds have eggs to hatch. All except Duck. But when Duck finds an egg of his own to look after he's delighted - it's the most beautiful egg in the whole world! But all the other birds think it's a very odd egg indeed - and everyone's in for a BIG surprise when it finally hatches.A beautifully illustrated and cleverly formatted tale with a surprise ending that's bound to ruffle some feathers!




Doodle Adventures: The Rise of the Rusty Robo-Cat!


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Introducing DOODLE ADVENTURES #3! Like The Search for the Slimy Space Slugs! and The Pursuit of the Pesky Pizza Pirate!, The Rise of the Rusty Robo-Cat! marries the fun of drawing and doodling with a lively fantasy tale that will appeal to boys and girls alike. From Mike Lowery—creator of the popular Kid’s Awesome Activity Calendar—it’s like a visual Mad Libs: part game, part graphic novel, and a thrilling, interactive experience in which the reader draws him- or herself into the story and becomes the star. Carl the Duck is back and needs help on the very important mission of discovering why the cats around town are acting like jerks. Can you track them down and break the spell they are under? (And maybe draw a space vampire along the way?) Each page combines hand-lettered text, delightful illustrations, plus prompts and plenty of space for the reader’s own contributions. The book is sturdy paper over board with high-quality cream paper that’s a pleasure to draw on. Kids will love using their imaginations to complete the story, then reading it over and over again.




Russell and the Lost Treasure


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Russell the sheep is determined to find the Lost Treasure of Frogsbottom. Equipped with his Super-Duper Treasure Seeker, Russell searches high and low, up and down, and in and out. Nothing! Finally, Russell finds an old chest! Could it be? Discover how Russell finds the most valuable treasure of all.




Keys to Drawing with Imagination


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Draw with Confidence and Creativity! New in paperback! Creativity occurs in action. It is not a trait; it is something you do. To be creative, you need to engage in the art-making process. When you are "in the flow," you shift out of the future and into the present, making connections, generating variations and surrendering to the process. This ten-year edition of Keys to Drawing With Imagination is a course for artists in how to take something, do something to it and make something new. Bert Dodson, author of the best-selling Keys to Drawing (more than 250,000 copies sold!) presents fun techniques and mind-stretching strategies to get you drawing better and more imaginatively than you ever have before. In every section, he offers you basic guidelines that help you channel your creative energies in the right direction. Before you know it, you'll lose yourself in the process, enjoying the experience as you create something gratifying and worthwhile. The subjects covered in this hands-on book are as vast as the imagination itself. Through 58 strategies, 36 exercises and 13 step-by-step demonstrations, you'll explore how to: • Take your doodling from mindless to masterful • Create your own reality by crumbling, melting or breaking objects • Flip the familiar on its ear to create something utterly original • Experiment with visual paradox and metaphor • Tell vivid stories through the details in your drawings • Play with patterns to create captivating compositions • Build your drawings by borrowing ideas from different cultures • Develop a theme in your work Along the way, Dodson offers you priceless advice on the creative process culled from his 70 years of drawing and teaching. For additional inspiration and encouragement, he includes the work of 30 other outstanding artists, including R. Crumb and Maya Lin. So what are you waiting for? Grab this book and start drawing! You'll be amazed at what you can create. *Note to readers: This book is a 10-year anniversary paperback reprint of the Keys to Drawing with Imagination hardcover edition (2006).




Splat the Cat Makes Dad Glad


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Hoping to cheer up his dad after a disappointing soccer game, Splat enters a Cat School Picnic father-son six-legged race that does not turn out quite as expected.




Scribbles and Ink Camp in the Woods


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Meet Scribbles, the cat, and Ink, the mouse, two artist pals with very different styles. While there should be plenty of room on the canvas for each of them to make their art without getting in each other's way, or on each other's nerves, they can't manage that! Scribbles and Ink go on a camping trip in this latest installment of the popular Jump-Into-Chapters series. Follow along as the duo use their creative skills to pitch a tent, catch fireflies, go fishing, cook by campfire, and tell ghost stories-all while engaging in their trademark artistic shenanigans! A kid-friendly recipe for s'mores ends the book.




Splat the Cat for President


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After Splat's elected student-body president, he tries to please everyone and makes promises he can't keep.




Doodle Dogs and Sketchy Cats


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Sit Back, Relax, Sketch and Doodle! Feel your worry melt away as you begin to sketch and doodle the cutest cats and dogs you've ever seen. They're whimsical. They're cute. They're silly. And they're really easy to draw. Learn how with easy to follow step step-by-step instruction. From temperamental tabbies to loyal labs, from cozy calicos to tireless terriers, you'll infuse personality into your kittens and pups with easy-to-draw expressions and poses. Or give them something to do by drawing action scenes: Cat acrobatics, anyone? Or maybe that Siamese is taking a catnap. Perhaps you'd like to portray a poodle sitting patiently, hoping for a treat. Or depict your doggies playing fetch. • Tons of types and breeds of cats and dogs • Cats in outfits and cats interacting with people--cat tea party, anyone? Even kitty accessories--scratching posts, toy mice and more. Here, kitty, kitty. • Dogs wearing sweaters, dogs on leashes and dogs in dog houses. Even dogs performing all your favorite tricks--Roll over, boy! Sit! Stay! Good dog. • A gallery of fun things to make that are so much more than just doodles, things like calendars, planner pages, greeting cards and memo pads. Keeping going for oodles of doodle and drawing inspiration and instruction!