Using simple shapes, Ed Emberley shows would-be artists how to draw a variety of animals, including lions, frogs, mice, birds, dragons, and more! This classic book is packed with cool things that kids-and not a few adults-really want to draw. Easy and fun, the book provides hours of art-full entertainment.
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Ed Emberley is the Caldecott Award-winning author of the popular Drawing Book series, as well as the best-selling Go Away, Big Green Monster! He lives in Ipswich, MA.
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Ed Emberley is the illustrator and author of over 80 books, including the bestselling Go Away, Big Green Monster! and his enormously popular "Drawing Book" series. He has received many awards and accolades, including a Caldecott Honor in 1967 for One Wide River to Cross and a Caldecott Medal in 1968 for Drummer Hoff. Ed Emberley lives in Ipswich, Massachusetts, with his wife, Barbara. You can visit him online at www.edemberley.com.
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116 of 116 people found the following review helpful
By Blake Watson
Format:Paperback
When I was in first grade, I had an art teacher who tried to show us how to draw using circles, lines, perspective, and so on, and I remember distinctly the experience of knowing that I could draw circles (and to an extent, straight lines) but there was no way I could put them together in a way that would look anything like the teacher's work.
This book was my salvation. Within these pages you'll find instructions on how to draw all kinds of creatures, from the lowly ant to an elaborate dragon, all by adding easy shapes (traingles, circles, linnes) one-at-a-time.
There is considerable truth in this book (and the author's others, which I unfortunately didn't discover until recently). How simplicity can communicate. How you can tackle something big by working in small steps. How you can make something you imagine come to like.
To this day I can take pleasure in drawing pictures, even though they're simple and I've never taken an art class since first grade, and I attribute a lot of that joy to this book. And nothing compares to giving a frustrated five-year-old an Emberly book and watching his face light up as he realizes that maybe he can make his drawings more than just scribbles.
This book (and the others) cannot be recommend too highly.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
By C. J. Carter
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is a fantastic gift for a child - or, indeed, anyone who struggles to get started on the road to drawing animals. Emberley takes elementary shapes and shows you how to put them together, step by step, to create stylised but character-filled drawings of animals. His selection is eclectic and the little drawings are great: giraffes, porcupines, raccoons, wolves, dogs, cats, lions, tigers...!
It'll kick-start a budding artist, break the 'I can't draw anything' mood everyone sometimes finds themseleves in, and is a valuable tool to get kids over the initial inability to draw things that 'look good'.
I love it. I use it every now and then when I need to 'get the gist' of an animal I am trying to capture on paper. It's beautifully simple and effective.
It'll kick-start a budding artist, break the 'I can't draw anything' mood everyone sometimes finds themseleves in, and is a valuable tool to get kids over the initial inability to draw things that 'look good'.
I love it. I use it every now and then when I need to 'get the gist' of an animal I am trying to capture on paper. It's beautifully simple and effective.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Ed Emberly's Drawing Book of Animals is a book that crosses age barriers. Whether you are a kindergarten student or an adult who has a phobia about drawing anything, with this book you can achieve success. I have used this book in my kindergarten classroom with great results. All my students thought they could draw anything and I found out by following the simple directions that I could too. I highly recommend this book as a gift to your young friends. Make it a complete gift with a pack of colored pens or pencils and a pad. Will keep them occupied for hours. It is good family fun for all to sit around the table and draw together. Even older kids quit feeling self conscious about their drawing and begin to enjoy creating a picture that looks like what they want it to look like. Now if you don't have any kids in mind don't let that stop you. If you know someone who does crafts, or needlework they will enjoy it too. Many ideas for decoration. Check out Ed Emberly's other titles too. Each book is based on the same principle of reducing all pictures into the basic shapes and lines we all can draw when we doodle. Ed makes your doodles into something else. Art!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Starter for pre-schoolers!
When children enter kindergarten, they are expected to illustrate in the language arts program. This books gives them confidence and some background when asked to illustrate. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Grandma
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for kids.
My daughter thoroughly enjoys drawing pictures from this book. Her drawing skills have improved dramatically. Good for younger kids starting the drawing experience.
Published 1 month ago by Karen Motley
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Wonderful
Read previous reviews. Very happy with books and so is my son. I have practiced as well and we are improving.
Published 1 month ago by Elissa Kartune
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Great ideas
Great book full of incredible ideas for drawing animals, which the students really enjoy. A new book, packaged well. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. V. T. Jones
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Perfect Fun Drawing Book for Kids
This is a great fun little book for kids. It does not teach you how to draw traditional animals, but the fun abstract ones the artist created. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Chris Winow
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun!
Had this when I was little. Excited to see my 8 year old loving it as well. Pages and pages of drawings completed by her already.
Published 2 months ago by Sharon Nobel
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is a great book.
This book makes drawing so simple. It shows you how your basic designs are used to draw. Great for kids or adults.
Published 2 months ago by NC Nana
5.0 out of 5 stars
A FABULOUS book to get kids drawing
My kids LOVE this book. They are ages 5-8. This book has showed them how simple shapes paired with their imagination can help them draw all sorts of animals. Read more
Published 2 months ago by 4babies
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great fun and easy to use
These drawing books are really fun for kids because they break down the drawing process into doable shapes that kids can make. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Holly Dubrasich
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great help!
This book has helped me draw with my kids. My 6yo girl was always asking me to draw with her, but I didn't know how to draw decent looking animals. Read more
Published 3 months ago by ssummers
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