Miss Bindergarten Craft Center (Miss Bindergarten Books) [Board book]

Joseph Slate (Author), Ashley Wolff (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Miss Bindergarten Books

Miss Bindergarten and some of her class members invite readers to participate in various craft activities to delight young minds and hands. Making masks, puppets, and hats; stitching, string painting, and rock painting; and sculpting with papier-mche are among the projects included here that use materials from the kit and easy-to-find household items. Children will enjoy working with the yarn, colored paper, paint cakes, glitter, and other objects the kit supplies, and they will find Miss Bindergarten's word and picture instructions easy and fun to follow.

Crafts are a huge part of the kindergarten repertory. This book-and-kit package fits perfectly with kindergarten skills but can also be enjoyed by children slightly younger or older. A treasure trove of craft items and ideas, it is sure to be a hit with Miss Bindergarten's many fans.

Product Details

• Board book: 12 pages
• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile; Book and Access edition (September 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0525462570
• ISBN-13: 978-0525462576
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 8.6 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,919,011 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born in Hollidays Cove, West Virginia, near the Ohio River in the state's northern panhandle. The River, the east-west railroads that skirted the Allegheny mountains, the mountains themselves were our playground.
I was born a writer, but my greatest influence was my sister Rose; she spent much of her short life in bed drawing on the back of wallpaper and binding her romantic stories into picture books.
Art was a second love, but it was not stressed in grade and high school.
After high school, I enlisted in the Marine Air Corps, and the GI Bill got me through the University of Washington, where I majored in journalism and worked as a stringer for The Seattle Times.
While working as an editor in Tokyo, Japan, I began drawing and sent a portfolio to the Yale School of Art. At Yale, I sold my first short story to The New Yorker. Then on to Kenyon College, where I built an art department, taught painting, and began to write children's books. I have been hard at it ever since. Odd, I have never been interested in illustrating them myself.
My wife Patricia and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 2004.