The Fifth Anti-Coloring Book: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up [Paperback]

Susan Striker (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 6 and up

The Anti-Coloring Books are intentional bestsellers and have been favorite creative tools for parents, educators, and therapists since the first book appeared in 1978. They are fully guaranteed to spark the creative impulse in every child.

This super collection of ideas for children will challenge and inspire them to create pictures for hours one end. With the help of partial line drawings, children are encouraged to imagine a treasure trove in the junkyard, to draw visuals for the best story ever told by their grandparents, to be an explorer in an undiscovered land, to create a famous sculpture, and much more. As always, the bestselling Anti-Coloring Books offer children the chance to expand and free their imaginations through creative art activities.

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About the Author

Art educator Susan Striker lives in Easton, Connecticut.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks (October 15, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805023763
• ISBN-13: 978-0805023763
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,653,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Loving Gramma, December 11, 2007

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This review is from: The Fifth Anti-Coloring Book: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up (Anti-Coloring Books) (Paperback)

This book is perfect for my six year old grandson who doesn't like to color. This takes more imagination and is more entertaining for him.