Ed Emberley

Step-by-step instructions for making line drawings of animals, vehicles, furniture, buildings, people, and other things.

Explains how to use a few simple shapes, letters, numbers, and symbols to draw almost any animal.

Instructions for creating a variety of shapes and figures using thumbprints and a few simple lines.

Monsters of different colors explain what makes them feel glad, sad, loving, worried, silly, and angry. Fold-out masks encourage readers to talk about their feelings.

Provides simple instructions for drawing a variety of trucks and trains.

Die-cut pages reveal the scary and mean parts of a bullybug as it prepares to attack some itty-bitty baby bugs, but a rescuer arrives on the scene before the bully can make good on its threats.

Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing people, animals, and objects using a minimum of line and circle combinations.

Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing people, animals, and objects using a minimum of line and circle combinations.

A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.