Create with Maisy: A Maisy First Arts-and-Crafts Book - Hardcover

Cousins, Lucy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0763661228 ISBN 13: 9780763661229

Publisher: Candlewick, 2012

Synopsis

Let Maisy show you how! Easy, safe, and fun, these craft projects for the very young were put together and photographed by Lucy Cousins herself.

Why does Maisy keep a Big Box of Everything, filled with glitter, sequins, foil, stickers, paint, brushes, paper, and tons more stuff? Because she loves to make things! Children as young as two will be thrilled to follow her lead, thanks to a brand-new Maisy format featuring both familiar illustrations and photographs by Lucy Cousins. Here are crystal-clear steps for creating seventeen simple crafts, highlighted by photos of the end result. Enjoy making things from painted pebbles to paper lanterns, food collages to feathered masks, and wax-relief paintings to wonderful vegetable animals. As spectacular looking as it is hands-on, here is an activity book sure to please parents as much as it does Maisy’s little fans.

About this title

About the Author

Lucy Cousins is the acclaimed creator of the beloved Maisy series. She is also the author-illustrator of the widely acclaimed Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book, as well as I’m the Best and Hooray for Fish! Lucy Cousins lives in Hampshire, England.

Reviews

PreS-Gr 2-Maisy the mouse, star of dozens of books and her own TV series, presents 16 simple crafts. The projects are all standard fare, e.g., paper lanterns, a pasta necklace, and seed pictures. Each one has concise step-by-step instructions and a color photograph of the finished artwork. In most cases, the activities are so simple that individual illustrations, guides, or patterns are not required, and the book provides none. Cousins includes cartoons of the mouse and her friends on most pages, and their comments about the crafts appear in the familiar font used in her picture books. Sesame Street Crafts All Year Round (Paragon, 2010) presents a wider variety of original activities for different skill levels, but many are too advanced for preschoolers. Cousins's book is a good choice for Maisy fans, and for anyone who is looking for very basic craft ideas.-Donna Cardon, Provo City Library, UTα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Candlewick
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763661228
• ISBN 13: 9780763661229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Cousins Lucy
• Number of pages: 48