The Anti-Coloring Book of Exploring Space on Earth: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up [Paperback]

Susan Striker (Author)

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About the Author

Susan Striker is the well-known author of the bestselling Anti-Coloring Book series. In 1984, she founded Young at Art, a private art school in Manhattan for young children. She currently teaches elementary school art in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks (June 15, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805014462
• ISBN-13: 978-0805014464
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,258,287 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Susan Striker
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Susan Striker is the author of the best-selling Anti-Coloring Book® series with over one million books in print all over the world. Designed to stimulate creativity and encourage problem solving and critical thinking, the books help children draw their own pictures as well as their own conclusions about life. She also wrote Please Touch® (Simon & Schuster) which teaches parents and educators how to stimulate creativity through movement, music, art and play. Young at Art® (Henry Holt) is a comprehensive text about the value and significance of early childhood art. That book clearly demonstrates the important link between early scribbles and later literacy.

In 2008 Susan received the highly competitive 2008 Connecticut Art Education Association Award, Outstanding Elementary Art Educator, for significant contributions to the field of art education.

The author teaches elementary school art in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she won the Distinguished Teacher Award. She has had a long, successful career teaching art to young children, has taught art education methodology to university students and developed art curricula. She shares her innovative teaching ideas in workshops for parents and teachers in schools and universities all over the country. Ms. Striker's work has been the subject of numerous local, national and international television shows,. Susan's Young at Art® curriculum for preschool and kindergarten art was awarded Connecticut's Celebration of Excellence for Creativity in the Classroom and she was presented with Hofstra University's George M. Estabrook Award.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hooray for leaving the "Stay within the Line" mentality!, March 21, 2002

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"stackedbooks" (Yuma, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anti Coloring Book of Exploring Space (Paperback)

I would buy every young person I know this book if it were available. Creating and exploring in a young person is stiffled around age 6. I hear people say "I can't draw a straight line," or "I can't draw," or "I can't paint," and too bad their brain accepted teachers/parents lack of encouragement to color anything, draw anything, go beyond the lines. The Anti-Coloring Book of Exploring Space on Earth by Susan Striker should be given to every school child. The pictures are started, and the child/person is encouraged to complete from with descriptions like, "Would you like to live on a houseboat?", "Build a Treehouse where you can go and be alone," "Decorate this Dollhouse," "The people who live in this apartment have commissioned you to paint a modern masterpiece." "You are a scientist who has established a model community for life under the sea."

An exciting alternative to passive, mindless "art."

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Warning--this is about Architecture not Outer Space., July 9, 2009

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This review is from: The Anti-Coloring Book of Exploring Space on Earth: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up (Paperback)

My fault for not looking more closely, but I was misled by the title. I thought this would be a book that I could use with a unit study on the Solar System and Astronomy, but it is about a different kind of "space" (Architecture & Design). There is only one activity that has to do with designing a spaceship.