Artists at Work: A Literature-Based Anti-Coloring Book on Careers in Art: For Those Who Are Young at Art [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 10 and up
  
• Paperback: 92 pages
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks (February 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805034137
• ISBN-13: 978-0805034134
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,678,687 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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