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Pastel School 8 reviews
Hazel Harrison
Reader's Digest, 1996
Beginners start with this!
This book is incredibly helpful with demonstrations, suggestions for colors, layering options, and beautiful illustrations with various styles shown. The only thing that would have been even more helpful to this book was a little more information about paper and pastel suppliers and the difference in quality between them. I'm still giving it 5 stars though!
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Bad Day at Riverbend11 reviews
Chris Van Allsburg
Houghton Mifflin, 1995
van allsburg
This is the fuuniest, most imaginative children's books I've ever read. This was the first Van Allsburg I was introduced to and I was hooked...
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The Crayon Box that Talked17 reviews
Shane DeRolf
Harcourt (Student Edition), 1996
Great Book!
I am a 3rd grade teacher and this book is great for a quick lesson on getting along with others and the importance of being different and accepting one anothers differences. My class loved it!!
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How to Write a Children's Picture Book Volume II: Word, Sentence, Scene, Story: Learning from Leo the Late ...10 reviews
Eve Heidi Bine-Stock
E & E Publishing, 2006
A Constant Companion
Eve Heidi Bine-Stock's HOW TO WRITE A CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK (VOLUMES I, II and III)is a constant companion and rich resource in the planning and revision of picture books. The deconstruction of picture books, and the detailed classification of crucial characteristics - using classic picture books to illustrate each detailed point - make these books invaluable. Although I particularly use Volume ...
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Harold & the Purple Crayon (Unabridged)150 reviews
Crockett Johnson
audible.com
The power of creative visualization
I recommend this book. It portrays how all that we create in the world comes from our imagination, in which the possibilities are limitless.
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Wolf Kahn Pastels9 reviews
Wolf Kahn
Harry N. Abrams, 2000
The great Wolf Kahn
Thank you for the prompt service in receiving my book. It was just what I ordered.
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Crayon Shinchan, Vol. 16 reviews
Yoshito Usui
ComicsOne, 2002
The Fun of being Five and Japanese
The back cover says I quote: "...celebrates the terrible power of destruction and indicency wielded by toddlers everywhere". And it's true and so much FUN!
Each volume of this English translated manga by Comics One contains two stories in color and the rest are in black and white, or with "tones" used in Japan. You get to see what is the life of 5 year old Shinnosuke Nohara,Shinchan being the ...
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Harold's Fairy Tale (Further Adventures of with the Purple Crayon)6 reviews
HarperTrophy, 1994
2nd best of the series
Impossible to beat the original "Harold and the Purple Crayon", this is certainly the next best thing. This story is appealing to a somewhat older child than the original story, as it is a bit more complex. It is better than "Trip to the Sky", which has an odd story line that children do not follow as well. The new books that go with the television series are weak in comparison to the books ...
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A Day With No Crayons5 reviews
Elizabeth Rusch
Rising Moon, 2007
A delightful children's picturebook celebrating creativity.
A Day With No Crayons is a delightful children's picturebook celebrating creativity. When young Liza draws on the white wall with crayons, her mother takes them away. With the crayons gone, all the color drains from Liza's world. What is a budding artist to do? Then bit by bit, Liza discovers color in the world all around her, and that there are many new ways to express her imaginative side! The ...
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Saggy Baggy Elephant Crayons19 reviews
Golden Books
Golden Books, 2000
Golden Books are Awesome
I read this to our son, sadly, after he "out grew" these books, they were passed on. Happily, after searching all over I found these treasures on Amazon and now have a new collection for our beautiful grand daughter to enjoy.
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Collins Pastels Workshop3 reviews
Jackie Simmonds
Collins, 1994
really inspiring
I can't say enough about this book. It doesn't matter if you are experianced or have never touched a pastel before, everyone can gain something from this wonderful book. Not only does she lay out the different materials and papers, she touches on just about everything such as color theory, perspective and composition. This is so much more than just a book on pastels. Beyond all the useful ...
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Not in the House, Newton!4 reviews
Judith Heide Gilliland
Clarion Books, 1995
This book sparks creativity and can be a great teaching tool
I am an Elementary Literacy Resource Teacher, and I often recommend this book to teachers who are working with their students on color words. What better way for children to learn about the color red than to imagine everything they draw with their red crayon coming to life! This can spark much creativity in children's writing, whether independently or dictated to their teacher. A must for ...
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Get Red! An Adventure in Color4 reviews
Tony Porto
Little, Brown, 2002
Adventures in Red.....
As our young narrator tells us, he's got a huge problem. He has a report due about the planet Mars, you know the RED planet, and his RED crayon has run away. They've had a lot good times together this year, learned lots of cool RED things, and done a few special RED projects, but now, when he really needs him the most, that RED crayon has just up and disappeared. What's a guy to do? He could ...
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The Crayon Kingdom (Story Books)3 reviews
Jennie Bishop
Warner Press, 1999
Crayon Kingdom more than a colorful book!
When I first opened the Crayon Kingdom, I thought it was a beautiful book full of interesting characters like the Veggie Tales but as I started to get into the story, I found it to be much more. Teaching our children about different cultures and how we all work together to make a beautiful world so is important and this author does a wonderful job of doing just that! The book is easy to read ...
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The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon (Complete Text of All Four Stories)3 reviews
Crockett Johnson
HarperCollins, 2000
A delightful, imaginative tale
When I encountered this book for the first time, I lamented the fact that I was unaware of it when my daughter was young. She would have loved it. Harold is a toddler with a magic purple crayon. With it, he can make anything he wants and engage in the most imaginative and creative adventures. When Harold needs something, he simply draws it.
Some of Harold's adventures are flying in a rocket, ...
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A Picture for Harold's Room: A Purple Crayon Adventure (I Can Read Books)5 reviews
Crockett Johnson
Topeka Bindery, 1999
THIS IS A FABULOUS BOOK TO READ OUT LOUD
I adored this book when I was a kid (some 30 years ago) and since then I have read it out loud to lots of kids -- including groups in hospitals and at libraries. They always love it -- expecially the age 3 to 5 crowd. The illustrations are very simple, but really appealing to kids. It's also a terrific book for beginning readers since the vocabulary is pretty simple.
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Hand Art (Chicken Socks) (Klutz Chicken Socks)6 reviews
Klutz, 2005
Great fun for many ages!
We love this book. It has 20 different animals/aliens/bugs you can draw all from tracing your hand a certain way. The instructions are helpful and you can easily restock the supplies. All you need is some pompoms and googly eyes, though you can just draw those in if you'd prefer. My 5 year old can do these by herself and my 3 year old needs help. But I think it's fun, they do as well, and ...
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Harold y el lapiz color morado3 reviews
Crockett Johnson, Teresa Mlawer
Rayo, 1995
Tan encantador en español como en inglés (Just as charming)
Even grownups enjoy this imaginative story of a boy whose purple crayon takes him on a magical journey. The Spanish translation retains all the magic of the English original, such that a friend in his 20s became glued to the book when I first brought it to his attention. Caution: Although the story is understandable to children as young as 3 or 4, it is longer than it looks! Begin the story ...
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Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs 6-copy Counter Display w/ Crayons5 reviews
Ian Whybrow
Random House Books for Young Readers, 2003
Great book!
My son (just turned 2) refused to leave school without this book. We've had it now for a week and I've read it to him now approx 1.8 billion times, and I now have to return the book, so I'm getting his own copy. I don't know if this is a boy thing or just a kid thing, but he is absolutly fascinated by dinosaurs now and can even point out where tyrannosaurus is or stegmalopohopanopalisaurus (he ...
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Harold at the North Pole: A Christmas journey with the purple crayon3 reviews
Crockett Johnson
Scholastic, 1999
Harold Saves Christmas
It's Christmas Eve, Harold doesn't have his tree yet and he decides he needs one before Santa arrives. So armed with his imagination and his purple crayon, Harold sets off for the north woods to find the perfect tree. He follows the north star, encounters a blizzard, meets a snowman and continues to "draw" his way to the North Pole. There he finds Santa in trouble. He's snowed in and can't ...
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