Product Description

hese titles launch Little, Brown's major redesign of all 14 of Ed Emberley's classic drawing books. With brand-new covers and a new vertical trim size perfect for bookstore racks, these books are sure to attract new generations of fans.Using his simple 'alphabet' of a few letters and squiggles, Ed Emberley shows would-be artists how to draw a selection of terrifying weirdos, ghastly monsters, speedy trucks, trains, and other modes of transportation. Each book is packed with pictures that kids love and really want to draw.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8167 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780316789677
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
Anyone can be an artist with Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Trucks and Trains, a welcome addition to his other drawing books. The opening page pictures the simple shapes and letters necessary to do the drawings. He then shows two lines of images, explaining, "The bottom row tells what to draw. The top row tells where to put it." Interior pages similarly show each step in the process of drawing a train from engine to caboose truck, trolley car and more.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal
Grade 2-5-Emberley focuses on teaching children how to draw these vehicles in a simple manner. The first page shows a group of shapes and lines, explaining, "If you can draw these things you will be able to draw all the things in this book." That's the only text that appears. The artist then leads children through a step-by-step process. He starts off with trains, moving on to pickup trucks, vans, and heavy trucks. The last page shows stick people in various poses, as well as a cat, bird, and an assortment of "smiley" faces. The simple line drawings are done in black and white, highlighted with blue, red, green, or yellow. A good purchase for libraries in which Emberley's other titles enjoy frequent circulation, or where materials on learning to draw are in demand.
Lisa Gangemi Kropp, Middle Country Public Library, Centereach, NY
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Gr. 1-3. Emberley's latest title isn't as easy to follow as some of his other recent efforts, such as Ed Emberley's Fingerprint Drawing Book [BKL Je 1 & 15 01]. The book uses Emberley's signature step-by-step approach, adding a few easily drawn symbols at a time to create, in this case, vehicles such as locomotives, baggage carts, and pickup trucks. In several spreads, though, the symbols are blurry, and children may not understand how to fit the pieces together. Even so, the subject will please young artists fascinated by cars and trains, and die-hard Emberley fans will enjoy the funny embellishments, such as the pair of alarmed pigs in the pickups and the enormous wheels on the monster truck. For larger collections. Gillian Engberg
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Customer Reviews

Great For Your Older Artist
This is a book that uses stick figures and basic shapes to help children learn to draw more complicated pictures. This is an interactive book to teach drawing. Every little artist will enjoy the simple step-by-step drawings and colorful illustrations that Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Trucks and Trains contains. Smaller children will learn new words while their older siblings can use the book to learn how to draw more complicated pictures than just stick figures. However, it is somewhat difficult for the four-year-old child. An age recommendation on the book itself would make buying the book a little easier for parents and gift-giving relatives.

Fun with shapes and figures
Every little artist will enjoy the simple step-by-step drawings and colorful illustrations that Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Trucks and Trains contains. Smaller children will learn new words while their older siblings can use the book to learn how to draw more complicated pictures than just stick figures. While Mr. Emeberley works with some stick figure designs, he cleverly weaves in triangles, circles, rectangles and squares to make learning fun and easy. An age recommendation on the book itself would make buying the book a little easier for parents and gift-giving relatives. While amazon shows an age of 4-8, it was too complicated for my almost four-year-old son to use. It is, however, a book that children that age could grow into with time.

Christine Louise Hohlbaum, author of DIARY OF A MOTHER (2003)
SAHM I AM: TALES OF A STAY-AT-HOME MOM IN EUROPE (2005), resides with her husband and two children near Munich, Germany.

Excellent! Fun! Simple! Entertaining!
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Trucks and Trains is one of the best drawing books I have ever encountered. It starts the most complex designs with simple shapes, such as a long rectangle for a locomotive, and builds on it. My 4 year old nephew LOVES following the directions and building his trains. Be sure to have plently of colored pencils or markers on hand to help enhance the drawings. I love this book and I am looking into buying more.