Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Running Press Kids (September 24, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0762452919
ISBN-13: 978-0762452910
Product Dimensions: 1 x 8.5 x 12 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
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Age Range: 4 and up
Grade Level: Preschool and up
In a nutshell: The Boys’ Doodle Book is a heavy duty art book of creative and thought-provoking pictures to complete. It has sparse, simple text questions that a five-and-a-half-year-old can sound out. Mostly it’s filled with partial pictures and a prompt. Examples include things like: A boy looking over the side of his mattress and the caption: What’s under the bed? A strong looking man in his skivvies and his dog and the prompt: Design their superhero costumes. A page with three fierce lions running as a pack and the question: What are the lions hunting? Followed by a page with the lions looking back in fear and the question: What is hunting the lions? It’s full of pages with vikings and castles, pirates and aliens, pyramids, tunnels, caves and stampedes. It skews “boy,” but without being too stereotypical. One of the first pages my five-year-old turned to had a frightened looking T-Rex that asked, “What scared him?” His answer: A skunk. Actually, a pack of skunks.Why didn’t I think of that?This book has kept him creatively occupied for hours in a calm, educational way, exhibiting model “we’re in public” behavior. Target audience is definitely the 5-7 demographic. The paper quality is great and the pictures are colorful and engaging with lots of white space. Nothing about this book impels one to color inside the lines. One reviewer on took hers to a copy shop and had them chop the binding off and make it spiral-bound so it lies completely flat. This might be worth it, though after a few days of use it seems to lay flat enough.Families can talk about: Why do you like dragons and vikings so much? Are there enough pages where you can draw dragons? When the boy is looking over the side of his bed and says, “Oh crumbs!
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