Product Description

ust add Ed Emberley's simple 'alphabet' to your thumbprints and fingerprints, and you can create funny thumbprint faces, animals, and bugs, as well as colorful fingerprint pictures including frogs, trains, and flowers. Easy and fun, these books provide hours of art-full entertainment.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13376 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 48 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780316789691
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Amazon.com Review
With little more than some ink, paper, and your own fingers, you can become an artist! Caldecott recipient Ed Emberley, author of Go Away, Big Green Monster!, as well as many creative art books (Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing Book, Ed Emberley's Drawing Book: Make a World, etc.), shows readers how to turn fingerprints into lions, basketball players, reindeer, "bean buddies," submarines, rainbow dragons, trees, even watermelon. Emberley provides straightforward information about materials and techniques on the very first page, then sets readers free to discover and explore. Step by step, Emberley takes artists through the process, showing, for each picture, a fingerprint first, then adding simple lines and other fingerprints to make the print evolve into an entirely new entity. A mouse, for example, starts out as a brown oval fingerprint. Next, two pink fingertip-print ears are added. A black dot makes a nose. Two smaller dots become the eyes, and finally a few lines turn this blob into a bewhiskered mouse head. Young artists can spend hours creating designs, patterns, and decorative scenes with this fun technique, especially if they move on to advanced finger-printing on the last page. (Ages 4 to 8) --Emilie Coulter

From Publishers Weekly
Ed Emberley adds to his popular drawing books series with his paper-over-board Ed Emberley's Fingerprint Drawing Book. An opening spread describes the necessary "ingredients" for using fingertips as paintbrushes (inkpads, poster paints, food coloring, etc.); in the following spreads, Emberley leads by example, adding one element at a time to show how to make a frog, for instance, or a bumblebee in "The Garden" or animals and birds in subsequent spreads. He also offers ideas for seasons, holidays and feelings. ( Apr.)
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 3-A step-by-step approach to drawing for beginners and those who are artistically challenged. Each figure introduced can be made with a basic fingerprint or more, and then lines and dots are placed beneath the form to take budding artists to a complete picture. It is so easy to do that even very young children can enjoy a simple art adventure. A brief introduction refers readers to various ink pads, paints, and markers. Emberley also suggests using vegetables or gum-rubber erasers in addition to or instead of fingers. By dipping a finger into an ink pad, a basic form is made from which animals, bean buddies, clowns, and objects can be portrayed. The author then moves readers into general scenarios such as "The Garden" and "The Pond." He includes ways of showing emotions, holiday symbols, and a sketchbook full of supplemental ideas. The section devoted to advanced fingerprinting has slightly more difficult projects without step-by-step instructions. Emberley's books are especially valuable to nonartistic adults who want uncomplicated projects to do with children. This book is similar to Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing Book (Little, Brown, 1977), but the addition of color fingerprints makes it visually more appealing.
Ilene Abramson, Los Angeles Public Library
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Don't I Have This One Already?
That's the feeling I had when I received this as a present but, nope, I was wrong: I had the THUMBprint drawing book. And there's very little duplicatioin between this book and the thumb book!

Same premise and target audience, though: If your kids have fingers, they can draw! If they're very young, you can draw the details, but if they can hold a pencil, they can probably add the simple shapes and forms to make their own pictures.

The more drawing I do with kids, the more I realize how these books develop skills. They're a perfect gradient for youngsters just sitting down to draw. The books tell them what shapes to add, and it's a matter of duplicating those shapes in the right places--a skill one needs for more realistic drawing.

This is a great starter for a series of books that your kids will enjoy for years and will give them a comfort level and basic skill set they can use to make more sophisticated drawings later, if they want.

I can finally draw!
I purchased this book for my five year old and I have spent all afternoon creating. I am all thumbs when it comes to art and drawing. I have never been able to reproduce drawings--but now I can. Mine look just like Ed's. WOW! There is no need to purchase ink pads- I just used my son's washable markers and colored my finger with them. What a great book!

Fun and Easy
My kids have had a ball with these. Only thing...be sure you spend the extra $ for kids washable stamp pads! I used regular cheapo dollar stamp pads....uh uh. Won't wash off very easy!

Great for kids of all artistic levels.