Product Description

This innovative guide is packed with easy ideas for drawing fairies and mermaids. Simple, step-by-step instructions show how to create fantastical fairylands and undersea worlds. Ages 5-7.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106078 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Customer Reviews

A Houseful of Fairies, Mermaids, Princesses and Ballerinas
For Eve (aka Evie-Pops) the world her adult relatives can't see is choc-a-bloc with fairies. And mermaids. And princesses. And ballerinas. Fortunately, it also contains quite a lot of paints, crayons and scrap A4 so the two books by Fiona Watt were inspired Christmas presents. The odd fairy (only 2D, alas) continues to emerge from the grandparental bookshelves, magazine racks and the backs of sofas - though they have yet to perform any magic with their obligatory wands, such as hoovering the carpets or fixing the washing-machine. The books break down their subjects' physiology into simple shapes that young children are able to copy and show them the body parts in their proper proportions. So the kids are learning to draw more generally - outside the specific imaginary characters. That done, there's a lot of fun in adding the fancy, frilly bits and in colouring them in. Stock up on pink and purple. By the day after Boxing Day, Eve, 8 year old Joe and their mother were running a F,M,P & B factory and were, by then, cutting out bits of scrap (we hoped) fabric and assembling collages - some of which will have to be kept, possibly for ever.

A whole lot of joy for very little expense. Also provides space for festive drinking.

Brian Trueman