Selected Product: | The Second Anti-Coloring Book: Creative Activites for Ages 6 and Up (Anti-Coloring Book) Paperback Author: Susan Striker, Edward Kimmel Publisher: Holt Paperbacks Release Date: 2001-09-01 Reading Level: Ages 4-8 ISBN-10: 0805068430 ISBN-13: 9780805068436 List Price: $11.95 Average Customer Rating: | | The First Anti-Coloring Book: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up (Anti-Coloring Book) ISBN-10: 0805068422 ISBN-13: 9780805068429 List Price:$13.00 The Sixth Anti-Coloring Book: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up (Anti-Coloring Book) ISBN-10: 0805076492 ISBN-13: 9780805076493 List Price:$11.95 The Third Anti-Coloring Book: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up (Anti-Coloring Book) ISBN-10: 0805074228 ISBN-13: 9780805074222 List Price:$11.95 The Fifth Anti-Coloring Book: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up (Anti-Coloring Book) ISBN-10: 0805076484 ISBN-13: 9780805076486 List Price:$10.95 The Fourth Anti-Coloring Book: Creative Activities for Ages 6 and Up (Anti-Coloring Book) ISBN-10: 0805074236 ISBN-13: 9780805074239 List Price:$11.95 |
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A newly repackaged edition of the second book in a series that has sold more than 600,000 copies
More than a million copies of these innovative books have been sold around the world since they were first published in 1978. The second book in this series offers additional activities to foster creativity in young children in a charming new package.
VERY COOL BOOK! | Customer Rating: | | These coloring books are really fun - outside the box. My son was 4.5 when we started one. I made comments on each page to remember what everything that he drew meant and also included his comments. Its neat to look back and see how his interests and mind is changing. I highly recommend this series. | anti coloring book | Customer Rating: | This is a wonderful book for teachers. I like to use this book with my students because it lets them be creative and stretch their imagination. I would recommend this book to any teacher who teaches grades K-6th. | Artistic inspiration | Customer Rating: | I just love all of the books in this series by Susan Striker (with Edward Kimmel on a few of them). In college I learned about how coloring books are actually somewhat damaging to a child's creativity. When you give a child a coloring book, you aren't asking him to think or create - just kill time. But when you just give him inspiration in the form of these books, you're telling him that his imagination is important, and that you have faith in his abilities to draw and create.
Completing these pages doesn't only take imagination, either. Problem-solving skills are employed as children answer the questions posed on each page through their illustrations.
To children, none of this matters of course. For anyone who has ever laid down a blank piece of paper and wondered what they should draw, this is a welcome source of interesting ideas.
As a mother, I have used these books several times, and every time I get them out and let my kids look through them, they immediately become excited by the many possibilities and always find it difficult to narrow down which ones they will do. Furthermore, there is such a range of topics that any child is just about guaranteed to find something of interest. On one page, the creator is challenged to "Award Yourself a medal for what you know you do best", then on another page he or she is asked to "Construct a city on another planet" or illustrate, "What is your idea of Paradise?". All of these prompts also include some background to help get creative juices flowing.
I should also note that many of the prompts in the book can also easily lend themselves to be used as creative writing prompts. I highly recommend this or any book in this series to any teacher or parent. |
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