New Releases by Walter Foster Jr. Creative Team

Join the twin genies from the Nick Jr. hit show Shimmer and Shine in crafting paper doll clothes! Nickelodeon’s Shimmer and Shine: Craft and Play includes cute paper doll press-outs, patterned paper, stencils, stickers, and background scenes for imaginative play! First, Shimmer and Shine introduce you the magic of crafting, and then show you how to create clothes with patterned paper, embellish magic carpets with stickers, and use stencils to create other magical items. Once you’ve finished crafting, it’s time to play! Flip to one of the background scene pages, stand the book up, and travel to Zahramay Falls with your punched-out and decorated Shimmer, Shine, Leah, and their adorable pets Tala, Nahal, and Parisa. And you can use the book again later to create even more pretty dresses, shirts, pants, and bows! This 36-page, spiral-bound project book filled with simple instructions, fully illustrated punch-out paper dolls, patterned paper, stencils, and stickers.Nickelodeon’s Shimmer and Shine: Craft and Play is a crafty, imaginative, and playful journey to the magical world of Zahramay Falls.

Did you know that a sneeze moves at about 100 mph? Or that an average person is 7.5 heads tall? Did you know that humans share 99.9 percent of their DNA with each other?

With Learn to Draw Marvel Spider-Man, you can learn to draw your favorite hero and his foes! Inside you''ll find drawing projects for Spider-Man, Venom, Vulture, Lizard, the Green Goblin, Rhino, and Doctor Octopus. You love seeing Spidey swing from building to building in movies and comics, so wouldn''t it be amazing to be able to draw him yourself? With Learn to Draw Marvel''s Spider-Man, you can! This book teaches drawing with three different methods: tracing, the grid-drawing method, and the basic shapes method. The basic shapes method may seem challenging at first, but the step-by-step instructions guide you through it, beginning with simple shapes. Each step builds upon the last, and before you know it, you end up with a finished drawing of the Amazing Spider-Man! This 64-page, spiral-bound book includes tracing paper to accompany the tracing projects, practice grids to draw on after each grid drawing project, and practice pages after each basic shapes project. All you need is a pencil to get started! Learn to Draw Marvel Spider-Man will provide countless hours of artistic fun for Marvel fans of all ages. So grab your drawing pencils and get ready for an artistic adventure with the Amazing Spider-Man!

An amazing variety of wildlife surrounds you each and every time you hike through the great outdoors. With Ranger Rick''s Wildlife Around Us Field Guide & Drawing Book: Volume 1, you can learn more about these wild animals and become a naturalist-in-training! A naturalist is someone who studies natural life, like plants and animals. With this book, you will do just that! Inside you will find the habitat, diet, and common behaviors of 26 different North American animals, and how you can spot them outside. The step-by-step drawing instructions inside will help you practice drawing those animals in your own naturalist notebook. This book will help you prepare for outdoor excursions, showing you how to pack your backpack, take great photos, record notes, and animal create drawings. The fieldwork tips, fascinating animal facts, and colorful photographs throughout will aid you in your quest for animal knowledge. So join Ranger Rick and learn about the insects, birds, reptiles, and amphibians that surround you, from the Pacific tree frog and monarch butterfly to the bald eagle. Ranger Rick''s Wildlife Around Us Field Guide & Drawing Book: Volume 1 takes an adventurous look at the crawling, hopping, flying world of North America.

Just Imagine & Play! On the Site is an activity book set on a bustling construction site! Kids will love the facts, games and fold-out construction site scene. Rev the engine on your Earth movers and bulldozers, because it''s construction season! Just Imagine & Play! On the Site is your chance to be in charge of your own construction site. With this awesome activity book, you''ll get to be the foreman running the show. Unfold the book to reveal your very own stand-up play scene. You''ll get to customize your construction site with reusable stickers and punch-out, stand-up characters. From there, what you build on your construction site is up to you! Use dump trucks, excavators and bulldozers to move dirt and build houses and skyscrapers. This kit comes with a 48-page activity book with cool facts about construction tools and vehicles, puzzles, and games, not to mention the awesome punch-out characters, reusable stickers, and a fold-out construction site scene.

Just Imagine & Play! On the Farm is an activity book set in a busy barnyard! Kids will love the facts, games and fold-out farm scene. Have you ever wondered what life is like on the farm? Find out with this fun and sunny interactive activity book! Unfold this book, and there''s your stand-up play scene. Customize your farm with the reusable stickers and punch-out, stand-up characters, and you''re ready for action. What kinds of animals you have on your farm and what you grow is up to you! Gather eggs, feed the pigs, milk the cows, plant the crops; it''s never a dull day on the farm! Includes a 48-page activity book with cool facts about farm vehicles and animals, puzzles, and games, plus punch-out characters, reusable stickers, and a fold-out barnyard scene.

This clever take on classic nursery rhymes revises the stories we all know into fun, interactive, "who done it" style puzzles for each page.

Young aspiring artists everywhere will be drawn to the selection of winged creatures included in Learn to Draw Birds & Butterflies, which includes a blue jay, spotted owl, red admiral, and many more. The book opens with brief information for getting started, the tools and materials needed, and some sample drawing exercises to warm up. Young artists-in-training will learn to draw their favorite winged creatures by following the step-by-step instructions in this beautifully illustrated book.

101 Ways to Amaze & Entertain makes kids into magicians who are always ready with a trick or a gag. The easy-to-follow illustrations make learning magic simple! Who isn''t amazed by a perfectly pulled off magic trick? 101 Ways to Amaze & Entertain turns you into the charismatic magician who''s always ready with a trick and clever quip. This magic guide is the perfect combination of tricks, jokes, pranks, and illusions that aren''t only entertaining for you, but also acts as your manual to learning new tricks and jokes that will amaze and entertain your friends and family members. With this book you can: Make a magic wand vanish up your nose Remove a ring from a piece of string Make predictions Read your friends’ minds Make one arm longer than the other Plus 96 other fun gags, magic tricks, and jokes to perform! 101 Ways to Amaze & Entertain can help you become a confident, funny magician by showing you unique tricks and gags with clear, easy-to-follow instructions and humorous illustrations. It provides tips on effectively telling jokes, how to deal with hecklers, as well as step-by-step instructions for 50 magic tricks. Additional instructions include performance tips that help you to create a complete magic act. Once you master the tricks, jokes, pranks, and illusions in this book, you will be able to amaze your friends and family! All you need is some skill and confidence and you’ll be surprising and making people laugh in no time.

From kooky crafts to word-play creations and silly games, Gaga for Googles includes over 100 fun ideas and things to do with googly eyes. You''ll go Gaga for Googles over the collection of fun ideas and things to do with googly eyes in this interactive kit. This fun art kit focuses on one craft item--googly eyes--and showcases over 100 googly eye uses and applications! From kooky crafts to word-play creations and silly games, this kit has it all! Gaga for Googles comes with a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors of googly eyes to help get your art projects started.

Young aspiring artists everywhere will be drawn to the selection of exotic animals included in Learn to Draw Safari Animals, which includes a lion, giraffe, an aardvark, and many more. The book opens with brief information for getting started, the tools and materials needed, and some sample drawing exercises to warm up. Young artists-in-training will learn to draw their favorite safari animals by following the step-by-step instructions in this beautifully illustrated book.

Young aspiring artists everywhere will be drawn to the selection of cats included in Learn to Draw Cats & Kittens, which includes a variety of popular breeds, such as a Bengal, Persian, Ragdoll, and many more. The book opens with brief information for getting started, the tools and materials needed, and some sample drawing exercises to warm up. Young artists-in-training will learn to draw their favorite cats by following the step-by-step instructions in this beautifully illustrated book.

My Big, Crazy Drawing & Doodle Book is the ideal doodle journal for children with big imaginations and an enthusiasm for arts and crafts. With 128 pages of open-ended prompts that encourage use of crayons, paints, markers, and colored pencils, young artists will love learning to develop their own illustrative style and expand their artistic horizons directly on the pages of the book. After a brief review of the necessary art tools, budding artists are treated to a variety of practice doodles and warm-up exercises that encourage outside-of-the-art-box thinking. Whether children are stylizing a personal family portrait or transforming their favorite foods into quirky doodles, they will quickly discover how easy it is to explore and push the boundaries of their creativity—all that''s needed is a little imagination! Featured prompts include familiar, everyday objects and encourage their reinterpretation into whimsical doodles, including designing an original soda can; doodling "icing" on a set of colorful cupcakes; filling in a box of donuts with shapes, swirls, and patterns; embellishing a series of faces with moustaches, beards, and expressions; and others. Designed to encourage artistic exploration and imagination throughout daily life, My Big, Crazy Drawing & Doodle Book is sure to engage creativity and expression at every level.

Short for "Bureau of Otherworldly Operations," B.O.O. introduces children to ghostly adventures in the digital age, as they come along for a spooky ride with the super-classified ghost-busting agency no one has ever heard of and certainly never seen. The agents of B.O.O. work to protect humans from evil hauntings with a secret weapon?"they are ghosts themselves! With Learn to Draw Dreamworks'' B.O.O., young artists can learn to recreate favorite haunts and heroes from the film step by step, such as agent Jackson Moss and his oddball partner Watts, who save the agency?"and the world?"from an attack threatening to destroy it forever. Featured drawing projects include popular ghost-busting agents and their cool gadgets, as well as the film''s villains, including the scheming criminal Most Wanted Haunter.

This interactive book introduces young children to the intriguing world of dinosaurs. Vibrantly illustrated background, stickers, and punch-outs come together to provide hours of imaginative fun. The background scenery, a stand-up panorama of a prehistoric land, doubles as a stickering page and a vivid background for punch-out playtime. The sturdy punch-outs are perfectly sized for little hands, and include multiple different dinosaurs, prehistoric plants and trees. Reusable stickers include flying dinosaurs, land-roaming dinosaurs, rocks, trees, dinosaur footprints, and more. All together, Sticker, Punch-out & Play!: Dinosaurs makes for interactive play and limitless fun.

Perfect for young minds in a constant state of learning, Drawing Animals from A to Z teaches children about their favorite furry, scaly, and feathered animals through art, ABCs and shapes. This fun, educational book opens with easy warm-up drawing exercises and an introduction to the basic shapes: circle, oval, square, rectangle, and triangle. From there, children are invited to follow simple step-by-step instructions to draw each A to Z animal, starting with a basic shape and progressing to a finished color final piece of art. Projects include children''s favorite domestic and exotic animals, including a dolphin, ferret, jaguar, koala, puppy, toad, and many more, while a paper pad includes an unfinished drawing of each featured animal with a prompt for children to complete, as well as the capital and lowercase letter representing the animal. Drawing Animals from A to Z educates children as they draw these wild and tame animals found all over the world, providing an enjoyable, well-rounded artistic and educational experience.

Learn to Draw Pets features 64 pages of drawing instruction for a variety of domestic animals children love--from a kitten and a puppy to a guinea pig, bunny, box turtle, and many more. The book opens with brief information for getting started, the tools and materials needed, and some sample drawing exercises to warm up. Young artists-in-training will learn to draw their favorite pets by following the step-by-step instructions in this beautifully illustrated book.

I Can Draw Sea Creatures & Other Favorite Animals teaches young artists how to draw land and sea animals, including a turtle, shark, whale, bear cub, pony, and more. The book teaches budding artists how to draw almost any animal by starting with a basic shape, such as an oval, a circle, or a triangle, and following along as each step guides to a completed color drawing.

Featuring all of your favorite characters from the Disney∙Pixar film, including, Lightening McQueen, Sheriff, Flo, Francesco Bernoulli, and more! Learn to Draw Disney∙Pixar Cars allows young artists-in-training to transport their favorite characters from the hit movie straight onto drawing paper.

Young aspiring artists everywhere will be drawn to the selection of ocean animals included in Learn to Draw Sea Creatures, which includes a variety of favorite ocean dwellers, such as a beluga whale, a manatee, a dolphin, a sea lion, an orca, and many more. The book opens with brief information for getting started, the tools and materials needed, and some sample drawing exercises to warm up. Young artists-in-training will learn to draw their favorite ocean animals by following the step-by-step instructions in this beautifully illustrated book.

Featuring all of your favorite characters from the Disney∙Pixar film, including, Merida, Angus, Queen Elinor, and more! Learn to Draw Disney''s Brave allows young artists-in-training to transport their favorite characters from the hit movie straight onto drawing paper.

I Can Draw Planes, Trains & Moving Machines teaches young artists how to draw a range of aircraft, land vehicles, and high-powered machines, including a helicopter, jet plane, fire engine, locomotive, and more. The book teaches budding artists how to draw almost any vehicle by starting with a basic shape, such as an oval, a circle, or a triangle. Each step then leads to a completed color drawing.

I Can Draw Animals Around the World teaches young artists how to draw a range of animals, such as a koala, camel, lion, panda, giraffe, tiger, rhinoceros, and more, from exotic destinations all around the world. The book teaches budding artists how to draw almost any pet by starting with a basic shape, such as an oval, a circle, or a triangle. Each step then leads to a completed color drawing.

Presents detailed, step-by-step instructions for drawing Bad Piggies, popular characters in the "Angry Birds" video game

All kids are captivated by airplanes whether they are soaring in the sky above or in an airport waiting to take them on vacation. This convenient storage case contains nine little books that children will want fly on through time and again. Each book is designed to inspire a child''s interest in early learning concepts, including telling the difference between big and small, many and few, long and short, plus learning about basic colors all explained through colorful photos of airplanes and spacecrafts. Children will also have fun turning all nine books over to complete the picture puzzle. Also available in this series: - Tractors and Farm Trucks - Rescue and Emergency Vehicles - Mighty Machines

This convenient storage case contains nine little books that children will want to return to time and again. Each book is designed to inspire children’s interest in early learning concepts, including telling the difference between big and small, many and few, long and short, plus learning about basic colors all explained through colorful photos of rescue and emergency vehicles. Children will also have fun turning all nine books over to complete a picture puzzle. Also available in this series: - Tractors and Farm Trucks - Airplanes and Spacecraft - Mighty Machines

All kids are fascinated by the world of cars and trucks that they see around them every day. This convenient storage case contains nine mini books that children will want to return to time and again. Each book is designed to inspire children’s interest in early learning concepts, including telling the difference between big and small, many and few, long and short, plus learning about basic colors all explained through colorful photos of mighty machines from fast cars to huge dump trucks. Children will also have fun turning all nine books over to complete a picture puzzle. Also available in this series: - Tractors and Farm Trucks - Airplanes and Spacecraft - Rescue and Emergency Vehicles

All kids visiting the countryside are fascinated by the tractors and farm machinery they see working in the fields. This convenient storage case contains nine mini books that children will want to return to time and again. Each book is designed to inspire children''s interest in early learning concepts, including telling the difference between big and small, many and few, long and short, plus learning about basic colors all explained through colorful photos of tractors and farm equipment. Children will also have fun turning all nine books over to complete a picture puzzle. Also available in this series: - Rescue and Emergency Vehicles - Airplanes and Spacecraft - Mighty Machines

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing animals using a few basic shapes.