Squeaky Chalk can teach anyone to be an artist! Featuring dozens and dozens of step-by-step pages and an activity and/or project at the end of each section, it lets readers test out their artistic skills at home or school. It's a great introduction to cartooning, a welcome rainy-day project book, and a cool way to bust boredom. With a compact trim size and sturdy hidden wire binding, Squeaky Chalk is a meaty 152 pages of activity fun! The special format makes it a great gift to slip into a backpack or sneak into a friend's locker. Here's an exercise in out-of-the-box thinking that is guaranteed to captivate children, parents, and teachers.
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Grade 4-6-Organized into 67 lessons, this small, spiral-bound book attempts to teach children the basics of drawing while including a smattering of informational vignettes, a muddled story line, and a few simple art projects. News clippings from the Silk City Bee, a fictitious newspaper, are scattered throughout. The articles are all related to the questionable fate of Alexander Hamilton's Silk City, which, readers are told, was founded in 1792 as the country's first manufacturing center. It seems that Professor Thistle plans to invent flying candy and rename the historic district "Candy City." Fortunately, he reconsiders and instead offers balloon rides over the area. The content is disorganized and scattered; children learn to draw the wind, a piece of chalk, a thinking cap, a boy, and a cat in the first five lessons. Without adequate explanations or statements of purpose, flip-flopping from subject to subject results in confusion. Stick with Ed Emberley's drawing books.
Ilene Abramson, Los Angeles Public Library
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Ilene Abramson, Los Angeles Public Library
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Squeaky Chalk can teach anyone to be an artist! Featuring dozens and dozens of step-by-step pages and an activity and/or project at the end of each section, it lets readers test out their artistic skills at home or school. It's a great introduction to cartooning, a welcome rainy-day project book, and a cool way to bust boredom. With a compact trim size and sturdy hidden wire binding, Squeaky Chalk is a meaty 152 pages of activity fun! The special format makes it a great gift to slip into a backpack or sneak into a friend's locker. Here's an exercise in out-of-the-box thinking that is guaranteed to captivate children, parents, and teachers.
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Draw It and Then Learn More,
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This review is from: Squeaky Chalk: And Other Fun Things to Draw (And Do) When There's Nothing to Do! (Hardcover)
This is a great book to teach children how to draw using simple shapes and lines. The step by step diagrams lead to fun animals, people and food, to name a few. There are even instructions for extras like trees and snow. Scattered thoughout the book are jokes, short stories, simple crafts, science and history facts, and even recipes, each relating to the drawings. All of these make this small book of 152 pages one that can be enjoyed by children alone, or with their parents, for 365 days and beyond.
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Charming self-help book,
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This review is from: Squeaky Chalk: And Other Fun Things to Draw (And Do) When There's Nothing to Do! (Hardcover)
As an adult, I had fun copying the pages and learning a new style of drawing. The story and characters are charming and I plan on getting the other books written by Joy Sikorski.
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Fun With Grandchildren,
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This review is from: Squeaky Chalk: And Other Fun Things to Draw (And Do) When There's Nothing to Do! (Hardcover)
Grandparents are always looking for fun activities to do with their grandchildren...This book and a giant box of chalk provide lots of hours of "togetherness" laughter and fun. "Squeaky Chalk" is a wonderfully simple guide for kids to draw many ideas easily- instant results with no frustration.
Thank you, Joy, for your series of books.
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Alexander Hamilton founded a city in 1792 with the idea that it would become America's first manufacturing center. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Alexander Hamilton founded a city in 1792 with the idea that it would become America's first manufacturing center. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Silk City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Professor Thistle, Tartan Sweet Novelty Candy Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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