Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals

No child should miss out on having Ed Emberley's drawing and craft books!!!! This one is SO fun and goes one tiny step by one tiny step to show your child how to draw ALL sorts of animals. My kids loved his books growing up. One of my boys made a huge mural out of butcher paper that covered one wall of his room from what he learned in these books. It killed me that he threw it away before I could get a picture of it!!!! But he is grown now. He majored in Architecture and then switched to Graphic Arts and Photography. He used to make models for architects, and along with the help of the other workers, their model was shown in the Guggenheim Museum for a while!!!! So you never know where a child's imagination will lead him.

My daughter has great aspirations of becoming an artist. The problem is that I am so unskilled, my brothers would refuse to play Pictionary with me growing up. I have no guidance to offer her. Enter Ed Emberley. I gave this to her for Christmas when she was on the older side of 5. We love it. I kid you not, for the first week after we bought it, she, her 4 year old brother, and I would sit around sketching animals for an hour or so at a stretch. It was like we became the Cleavers or something (I've actually never seen Leave it to Beaver, but this is the kind of thing I imagine they would do). The way Emberley breaks it down into easy-to-draw shapes made it easy and fun to do. Our drawings actually looked like the animals we were creating (a new thing for me). Even my 4 year old could do most of them (although he would get frustrated with some of the more complicated ones at the end). And in the following weeks, I'd see my kids trying to draw animals that weren't in the book by putting different shapes together. I highly recommend this!

I highly recommend this book for any child with an interest in drawing! This is actually the 3rd generation I have bought this book for!! My sister and I used it when we were little and we are in our 40's now, my kids had a copy and I was so happy to see I could still purchase it for my grandkids! It's step by step, silly and fun. There is a lot of artistic talent in my family from downtown building murals to tattoo artists and this book will always be a #1 for the kids in our family!!

Bought this for the grand kids. They love drawing. Easy to follow directions.

Love all his drawing books -

Nice step by step instructions. MUCH smaller than expected.

My 8 year old niece is very artistic and loves animals, so I took a chance and bought this, "how to" books as one of her Christmas presents. I let her open it early during a recent trip home, and was pleasantly surprised at her reaction. I was even more surprised when she spent the next few hours drawing many of the animals using the step by step visual instructions. We were amazed at how great the animals looked when she finished drawing them; we were able to identify which animal it was 99% of the time, (impressive for someone new to drawing). To draw an animal you follow the a row of, "step by step" pictures which built on each other, and end with a completed animal. For example, to draw a fox, first there was a picture of a circle, then an oval attached to the circle for the body, then the long tail, etc ... down to the whiskers. And since the instructions are all pictorial, she could do these entirely on her own. They were easy enough for her to do, but not so simple for her to become bored and lose interest. There were up about 4 animals you could draw per page, so it will take some time for her to draw all of them, (and knowing my niece, she'll then go back to ones she liked best to improve and perfect them). II bought another "how to" drawing book from a different author as well, (How to Draw Princesses and Other Fairy Tales by Barbara Soloff Levy) not knowing if she'd like the way one book taught over the other. Upon opening the book I could see that Ed Emberley's book was far superior for beginning artists. My niece apparently agrees, because despite LOVING all things princess, she flipped through the Princesses "how to" book, then put it aside and spent the rest of the day drawing the animals from Ed Emberly's Drawing Book. I will definitely be buying more Ed Emberley drawing books in the future!

Kids love when you help them draw these so easy to understand amd helps with position words shapes.

Il mio bimbo di 2 anni e mezzo è entusiasta, la sua sessione quotidiana di disegno alla lavagna non gliela toglie nessuno. Proveremo senz'altro anche gli altri libri, il metodo per imparare è davvero divertente e funziona, ma soprattutto lui è felice e soddisfatto (che poi è l'unica cosa che conta :) ).

What a fun book! This author sets up easy drawing exercises showing you how to turn capital and lower case letters into fun and quirky animals. The limited colour display allows the reader to create their own colour combinations. Anyone can learn the simple line and shape work in the book - including kids of all ages. If you want a fun, easy drawing session this book is a must!

Excellent book for introducing drawing to kids. My 4 year old just loves it. Make all animals real easy to draw by reducing them to simple shapes like circle, rectangle, triangle etc. Multiple animals on one page, easy to follow instructions for kids. Love the way different facial expressions have been introduced. Lion, tiger, elephant, owl , goat here we come. Confession time : I am pathetic at drawing and this book helps me draw better and allows me to teach the little one as well. Couldn't have asked for more.

I bought this as part of my 5 year old niece's Christmas present. She flicked through it, and immediately went to get some paper. She then spent about 20 minutes (which was a considerable amount of time when there were other presents to be opened) drawing some of the different animals. I now have a wonderful tiger on my fridge - and a husband who wants another copy!

大人も子供も楽しいお絵かきの本です。 丸や三角や四角で簡単に動物が描けてしまう。 あれっ、絵ってこんなに簡単だっけ？ 4歳の娘も楽しみながら描いています。 買って良かった一冊です。