With all the pressure for kids to achieve at whatever they try, here is the perfect antidote-a book that simply invites them to enter and play. Nikalas Catlow has made a start on each of the generous-sized pages-a few beginning strokes of pictures and prompts like a boy looking into a bowl and asking what’s in there. Doodlers go off from there on a liberating flight of mindless fancy. There are over 200 pages to complete and create. A book that will be as irresistible to overtaxed adults as it is to kids eager to enjoy its spirit of adventure, imagination, and creativity.
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Nikalas Catlow has been doodling and drawing since childhood, and received his MA in Children’s Book Illustration. He lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. For more information on Nikalas and his work visit www.catlow.biz.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
I'm buying another copy for the same kid!,
By Mrs. Spumoni (Salt Lake City, UT United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Do You Doodle? (Paperback)
I picked this up for my daughter during a trip I took to London two years ago. She was a four year old budding artist and this was her new favorite book. It stretched her imagination and prompted her to produce the most wonderful drawings. And no kidding, this kept her busy for hours. The only trouble was (is) sometimes she had to have the few words on the page read to her to help her figure out what to do on each page.
I have been waiting for this to become available in America because she filled in her other one. I am the daughter of a therapist who was opposed to the concept of coloring books that kept children drawing inside the lines. This is not like that. Catlow puts a half of a drawing on the page and invites the child to draw what is going on on the rest of the page, to provide the explanation of what is already drawn. It's been fabulous to watch her mind work as she comes up with what's going on on each page. Color is optional, what it's doing is encouraging the kid to expand or create. In fact, my daughter now does not at all like the standard coloring books. She asks me to buy blank notebooks and she draws in the "coloring book" outlines, then fills them in or "colors" them or not as she feels like it. In other words, she has continued with what she learned in this book and would rather make her own Catlow book than color in a standard coloring book. There is another Doodle book with a gray cover, Doodles by Taro Gomi, which we bought for her when she filled up this yellow one, and it's good but probably for an older kid, I'm guessing 8 years or something. In the Gomi one they're asked to fill in word bubbles to indicate what people are saying... it just seems a little more suited for a slightly older kid who already can read and write. I'm buying two of these Catlow books, one for my six year old daughter who filled in the first book, and one for my four year old. Oh wait, a third one for my five year old niece's birthday next month.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Everyone wanted their own copy!,
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This review is from: Do You Doodle? (Paperback)
This book has appealed to everyone in our family (ranging in age from 5 to 48) so much that everyone ultimately got their own copy. There are so many ways to enjoy this book - we've done everything from doing the same pages separately and then comparing, to working side by side on a two-page doodle and discussing what should go into the picture next. Neither of our kids has ever liked coloring books or coloring in general, yet both took immediately to this book. They will often swap books and ask each other questions about their drawings and I'm often struck by the level of thought they've put into their drawings. Definitely worth every penny!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Receiver of gift was thrilled!!!!!!!!!!!!,
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This review is from: Do You Doodle? (Paperback)
I got this for my 34 year old sister for xmas, she loved it! I have to tell you that after looking at it I went ahead and bought myself something similar, it is fun to just not think and "doodle"!
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