Squeaky Chalk: And Other Fun Things to Draw (And Do) When There's Nothing to Do! - Hardcover

Sikorski, Joy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517800977 ISBN 13: 9780517800973

Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers, 2000

Synopsis

Squeaky Chalk can teach anyone to be an artist! Featuring dozens and dozens of step-by-step pages and an activity and/or project at the end of each section, it lets readers test out their artistic skills at home or school. It's a great introduction to cartooning, a welcome rainy-day project book, and a cool way to bust boredom. With a compact trim size and sturdy hidden wire binding, Squeaky Chalk is a meaty 152 pages of activity fun! The special format makes it a great gift to slip into a backpack or sneak into a friend's locker. Here's an exercise in out-of-the-box thinking that is guaranteed to captivate children, parents, and teachers.

About this title

About the Author

Joy Sikorski has coached thousands of adults on how to fight boredom at the office with How to Draw a Radish: And Other Fun Things to Do at Work. This is her first book for children.

From the Inside Flap

y Chalk</i> can teach anyone to be an artist! Featuring dozens and dozens of step-by-step pages and an activity and/or project at the end of each section, it lets readers test out their artistic skills at home or school. It's a great introduction to cartooning, a welcome rainy-day project book, and a cool way to bust boredom. With a compact trim size and sturdy hidden wire binding, <i>Squeaky Chalk</i> is a meaty 152 pages of activity fun! The special format makes it a great gift to slip into a backpack or sneak into a friend's locker. Here's an exercise in out-of-the-box thinking that is guaranteed to captivate children, parents, and teachers.

Reviews

Grade 4-6-Organized into 67 lessons, this small, spiral-bound book attempts to teach children the basics of drawing while including a smattering of informational vignettes, a muddled story line, and a few simple art projects. News clippings from the Silk City Bee, a fictitious newspaper, are scattered throughout. The articles are all related to the questionable fate of Alexander Hamilton's Silk City, which, readers are told, was founded in 1792 as the country's first manufacturing center. It seems that Professor Thistle plans to invent flying candy and rename the historic district "Candy City." Fortunately, he reconsiders and instead offers balloon rides over the area. The content is disorganized and scattered; children learn to draw the wind, a piece of chalk, a thinking cap, a boy, and a cat in the first five lessons. Without adequate explanations or statements of purpose, flip-flopping from subject to subject results in confusion. Stick with Ed Emberley's drawing books.
Ilene Abramson, Los Angeles Public Library
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Edition details

• Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0517800977
• ISBN 13: 9780517800973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Sikorski Joy
• Number of pages: 152