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Ed Emberley
In 1975, more than a decade into a career that would establish him as one of the most innovative children's book authors of his time, artist and illustrator Ed Emberley…
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This companion to the bestselling classic Go Away, Big Green Monster!, which has sold over a million copies, shows kids how to calm down with a "monsterously" fun format boasting…
Iain Serraillier
An Ed Emberley classic brought back to life for the first time since 1973.
For those who are fed up with benign cookie-baking witches, Emberley's Grimblegrum "astride her broom o'…
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A Caldecott winner and author of Go Away, Big Green Monster! offers another ingeniously crafted novelty storybook that helps children face, and then chase away, their fears. With a glittering…
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Todd Oldham,Caleb Neelon
Ed Emberley shies away from calling himself an artist and instead likes to say that he draws pictures for a living. Now in his eighties, Ed Emberley is a Caldecott…
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These activity books take Emberley’s drawing system and updates it for today’s busy lifestyle. A black pen or marker, even a pencil, is all kids need to enjoy these pads…
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Make a Face takes circles, squares, diamonds, and rectangles, and lets you makes faces of all descriptions. Ed Emberley’s multi-million-selling drawing alphabet system has never gone out of style. His…
Ed Emberley is a Caldecott award-winning children s book illustrator and writer who has been creating original books since the 1960s. He has written and illustrated more than 100 books…
These new titles in the Ed Emberley on the Go! series of drawing books prompt youngsters to make whimsical animals and objects from gumdrops or faces from shapes that Emberley…
Presents step-by-step instructions for drawing people, animals, and objects using a minimum of line and circle combinations.
Ed Emberley is a Caldecott award-winning children’s book illustrator and writer who has been creating original books since the 1960s. He has written and illustrated more than 100 books, including…
Shows how to cut a basic circle into arcs and curves and use the pieces to draw birds, animals, snowmen, fish, and many other objects and designs.
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By adding Emberly’s simple alphabet to their fingerprints youngsters can create funny fingerprint pictures including frogs, trains, and flowers. Full color.
Using seven simple shapes, Ed Emberley shows youngsters how to draw wacky faces and creepy Halloween creatures in these two redesigned classic drawing books. Full color.
Four classic drawing books by Ed Emberley are redesigned with a new vertical trim size, but contain the same formulas to show young artists how to draw animals, faces, Halloween…
A classic drawing book of faces
A classic drawing book of animals
Dibujar es un arte que esta al alcance de todos. Un gran maestro de la ilustracion nos revela el ABC del dibujo. El celebre y multipremiado ilustrador estadunidense Ed Emberley…
La tecnica y los secretos de un gran maestro del dibujo al alcance de todos. Horas de diversion y creatividad. Uno de los mejores ilustradores de Estados Unidos pone a…
Original publication and copyright date: 2002.
Using just 8 shapes and objects, Ed Emberley shows would-be artists how to draw a variety of animals, people, insects, and more, and everything is PURPLE! This hefty 96-page book…
Learn to draw the Ed Emberley way! –Cover.
For use in schools and libraries only. Using circles, triangles, rectangles and other simple lines, the author illustrates the way in which to draw a number of everyday objects.
For use in schools and libraries only. Instructions for creating a variety of shapes and figures using thumbprints and a few simple lines.
For use in schools and libraries only. Shows how to cut a basic circle into arcs and curves and use the pieces to draw birds, animals, snowmen, fish, and many…
This two-in-one edition of two of Emberley’s popular titles– Ed Emberley’s Fingerprint Drawing Book and Ed Emberley’s Great Thumbprint Drawing Book –shows youngsters step by step how to make their…
Es hora de ir a dormir. Buenas noches, pequeno rostro verde. Buenas noches, pequena boca roja. Dulces suenos. El sonriente rostro verde de este pequeno monstruo aparece conforme pasan las…
With rhyming text and intriguing illustrations, this little book about shapes will keep young ones interested and yearning to learn.
Die-cut pages through which bits of a monster are revealed are designed to help a child control nighttime fears of monsters.
In this playful follow-up to Ed Emberley’s classic GO AWAY BIG GREEN MONSTER, little readers can tell Little Green Monster it’s time to go to sleep with the flip of…
Learn to draw jack-o-lanterns, skeletons, witches, black cats, monsters, and more in this how-to-draw book by drawing master Ed Emberley–perfect for the Halloween season and all year round!
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Instructions for creating a variety of shapes and figures using thumbprints and a few simple lines.
A classic drawing book of over 400 objects to create a world
Barbara Emberley,Ed Emberley
THE STORY OF PAUL BUNYAN shares the folktale of one of the most famous and popular North American folk heroes. The story traces the outdoor adventures of Paul Bunyan, the…
A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.
Rebecca Emberley
A proud lion learns that little mice can be his friends.
Mice skate on ice. As they skate, their blades leave lines that depict a cat. Magically, the cat appears, colorful, graphic, and three-dimensional. What happens next? Why, the cat and…
Barbara Emberley
E. Emberley
Ed Emberley,Anne Miranda
Caldecott Medal-winning author/artist Emberley provides an innovative die-cut book featuring fold-out masks of monsters of different colors that youngsters can use to explain what makes them feel glad, sad, loving…
Dr. Franklyn M. Branley
Explains the phases of the moon– the changes that happen to it as it goes around Earth.
A lulling, rhythmic reissue of this timeless children’s classic captures the magic and wonder of nighttime
