Cute Baby Animals (Scratch Magic)

This fun and engaging activity book full of scratch-off art pages, coloring pages, games, puzzles, and more provides hours of entertainment for kids—and educates them with facts about adorable baby animals.
 
Readers use the wooden stylus that comes with the book to trace illustrations of adorable baby animals, scratching off the magic ink to reveal rainbow swirls or sparkly foil underneath. Cute Baby Animals contains 20 of these magic scratch-off pages along with 20 regular coloring pages to color in with crayon, colored pencil, or marker, as well as 20 pages of games and puzzles such as word searches, word scrambles, and more. In addition to the hours of entertainment provided by these art activities, there is a fun fact for each of the 20 animals featured, so kids and grown-ups alike can learn new information as they have fun. The book includes a wide variety of pets, farm animals, and wild animals, from puppies and kittens to sloths and pandas.

Susan Buescher is a children’s librarian and bad pun enthusiast. She lives in Illinois with one partner, two kids, three cats, and assorted other creatures.
 
Scott DuBar is an illustrator and graphic designer from Virginia. His vibrant and humorous work appears regularly on websites and in magazines across the country. Scott’s latest children’s book, Chicken Feathers, was released in September 2020 by Clear Fork Publishing. His first illustrated children’s book, Short Pump Bump, was published December 2017 by Belle Isle Books. In 2016, his illustration Underwater Tiger appeared on a limited-edition drink, Tiger’s Blood, from Mike’s HARDER. A graduate of VCU School of the Arts, Scott DuBar received his degree in Communication Arts magna cum laude. His work covers a wide range of lifelong interests including old-style cartooning, surrealism, humor, as well as topics concerning meditation and the environment.