Archives: Walter Foster Jr. Books
Empower, encourage, and inspire the next generation of women with this sweetly illustrated children’s book of letters from parents to their daughters.
A feel-good nighttime read aimed at girls ages 3 and 4 but sure to be appreciated by all, Letters to My Darling Daughter is a love letter from parent to daughter brimming with advice and life lessons. Each spread of this book features a letter or note from a parent to their daughter, along with a captivating illustration. A tenderhearted encapsulation of a parent’s love, this book shows young girls how they can grow up to be independent and strong girls and women.
Encouraging young girls and reminding adult women to stand up against inequality in their lives, the powerful messages inside include:
“Your body is your own”
“Success comes in many forms"
“Treat others how you’d like to be treated"
“You are rare and unique, so embrace yourself”
“Your ideas matter”
The last page of the book includes space for the parent to write their own personal message to their darling daughter.
Letters to My Darling Daughter is brought to you by Sugar Snap Studio, the author of the best-selling board book ABC What Can She Be?
This is the perfect gift book to a daughter of any age from her mother—for baby showers, graduations, Mother’s Day, birthdays, and more.
What’s better than reading and drawing? Doing them together, in the same book! The Watch Me Read and Draw book series is special because it blends two things together that kids love: reading and drawing!
It’s easy and fun to learn to draw, especially when there’s a story to read and lots of stickers. In Watch Me Read and Draw: Dinosaurs, kids will read about Pete the pterodactyl who discovers an egg and sets out to find its parent. Throughout the story, readers will learn to draw 11 prehistoric pals, step by step, including dinosaurs that roamed the land, air, and sea. Included are drawing instructions for a Pterodactyl, Apatosaurus, Compsognathus, Sauroposeidon, Ankylosaurus, Ornithomimus, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Diplodocus, Mamenchisaurus, and Triceratops!
Each page features easy-to-follow instructions so young artists can draw all of the dinosaurs from the story, one step at a time. Basic shapes that kids will recognize make it easy to follow along and learn how to draw. The flip-out drawing pad also offers drawing prompts and simple shapes for a jump-start, making it enjoyable and fun to draw favorite dinosaurs. Plus, there’s a whole bunch of colorful stickers inside to reward them as they complete the story along the way, and a prehistoric scene at the end to make their very own! It’s the perfect starter drawing book for kids who love to read and draw.
Have you ever wanted to draw your pet or the pet you wish you had? Now you can with How to Draw Kawaii MangaPets! In this fun and interactive guide, award-winning manga artist and educator Misako Rocks! teaches young artists to draw their favorite furry and fantastic friends in kawaii manga style.
In How to Draw Kawaii Manga Pets, Misako shows kids how to create their own irresistibly cute cats, dogs, bunnies, amphibians, and even magical pets like dragons and unicorn bunnies! With easy step-by-step lessons and QR codes linking to Misako’s video tutorials, young artists can follow along and draw right beside a real manga pro.
Inside, you’ll find:
- Step-by-step drawing tutorials to help you sketch 25+ pets with various expressions and in multiple poses.
- Pet expressions like winking, surprised, smiling, grumpy, crying, shy, hungry, and more.
- Pet poses like sleeping, standing, sitting, playing, running, yawning, stretching, eating, and more.
- A chapter on “Kawaii Pets and Me” where you can learn to draw manga characters with their pets, and even draw yourself with your pets!
- Interactive QR codes linking to video tutorials for extra guidance.
- Complete the drawing pages and practice sheets to spark creativity and self-expression.
- Motivational advice from Misako Rocks! to inspire young artists to follow their dreams.
Each project includes tips for drawing different poses and expressions, plus ideas for creating scenes that show pets playing, snuggling, or spending time with their manga caregivers. Packed with practice pages and creative challenges, this book helps budding artists build confidence and have fun while learning to draw in true kawaii manga fashion. Perfect for fans of cute art, manga, and animals alike, How to Draw Kawaii Manga Pets is an inspiring, screen-free way for kids to create their own adorable worlds!
Find even more fun-loving manga instruction inHow to Draw Kawaii Manga Chibi: Big Emotions, How to Draw Kawaii Manga Fashion, and How to Draw Kawaii Manga Characters, also from the Learn Manga with Misako series.
With Painting School, kids will discover how easy it is to paint anything—animals, people, nature, objects, and more—with simple steps and easy lessons!
Painting School provides the first steps to a lifelong love of art. Your child will learn how to paint anything they see in the world around them by following a few simple steps. This comprehensive, 240-page, flexi-bound art guide reveals how easy it is to paint, with easy-to-follow step-by-step projects, colorful art, and clear instructions.
Before the step-by-step painting projects, this book begins with the basics, such as the paintbrushes and paints to use, the differences between popular paint types, how to mix colors, what to paint on, and much more. Then painting class really begins! A variety of subjects are covered, from animals and people to nature and simple, everyday objects. Some of the projects include:
- Zoo animals, such as a panda and a lion
- Pets, such as dogs and cats
- People, such as kids, adults, and a jogger and a firefighter
- Fairy tale characters, such as a princess and a brave knight
- Mythical creatures, such as a mermaid and a unicorn
- Vehicles, such as a car and an ice cream truck
- Fruits and vegetables
- Plants, such as trees and flowers
- Dinosaurs, such as a Tyrannosaurus rex
Featuring more than 250 subjects, Painting School teaches young artists how to paint each one with clear, easy-to-follow steps. So grab a brush and let’s paint—school is in session!
Each page in this interactive handbook offers behind-the-scenes tidbits and trivia about the games that belong on your bucket list, along with parental rating guidelines, series background information, and storyline previews. Gamers can record their personal ratings of each series as they play their way through the list, making notes and critiquing the best and worst parts of each game.
All different types of video games are featured, including adventure, puzzle, platform, racing, and role-playing games. Both gaming newbies and more experienced players will love learning about the best games out there, and checking games off the list as they play them. Plus 101 Video Games to Play Before You Grow Up is the perfect way to discover new genres to explore next.
This guide book features games for just about every console from 1985 to today. No matter what system you have, this handy guide will help parents and kids alike choose the next best game to play.
Newly updated with original cover art, this freshly printed edition of The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel invites a new audience to read about the antics of our eponymous, furry, hero as the little mischief-maker escapes Shadow the Weasel and Redtail the Hawk. As with all Burgess’ charming tales, young readers will learn important lessons about curiosity, carelessness, and mistrust as well as true-to-life behaviors of our favorite woodland animals.
In addition to the beautiful, color illustrations of Maddie Frost, this edition of The Adventures of Catterer the Red Squirrel features the original black-and-white artwork by Harrison Cady. These are the very same illustrations you would find in the first edition of the Bedtime Stories, combining the vintage feel of these classic stories with modern sensibilities.
Let your imagination be your guide as you discover 12 clever cardboard craft projects for the entire family!
DIY Box Creations includes a variety of out-of-the-box cardboard creations for families to build together, transforming leftover boxes into an assortment of step-by-step projects. From planes, trains, forts, lemonade stands, and puppet theaters, have fun building memories and creativity with each step.
101 Bathroom Boredom Busting Activities encourages kids (and adults too!) to take however long they need to do their business—and stay entertained in the process with brainteasers, mazes, fun facts, jokes, and more!
Continuing the humorous and interactive101 Things series, 101 Bathroom Boredom Busting Activities features activities that can all be done while doing your “business” in the bathroom. From toilet paper crafts and origami to irreverent jokes, brain-training games and puzzles, and wow-worthy “did you knows,” you will spend hours whiling away the time on the toilet. 101 Bathroom Boredom Busting Activities lets you make the most of your private time with more than 100 bathroom-themed games, crafts, trivia, riddles, and jokes that will make even the most straight-laced parent crack a smile. Take however long you need to do your business—and stay entertained in the process!
Just some of 101 the bathroom-friendly activities included in this book are:
- Bathroom Detective spot the difference
- Toot, Toot! Word search
- Poodoku Sudoku puzzle
- In and Out maze
- Plumbing Problem jigsaw puzzle
- Bathroom Bingo
- Knicker Art connect the dots
- Poo poems
- Punny poo jokes
- Toilet paper tube crafts
- Pull-out poster
Live it up with the 101 Things series, filled with activities that celebrate childhood, discovery, and just plain having fun. These ready-made bucket lists for children are journeys through art, science, film, writing, magic, and all the memory-making and exploring that is the best part of childhood. Take one of these travel-friendly guidebooks with you and check off each adventure along the way.
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.
With 8 step-by-step projects and a gallery of more than 30 portraits to inspire, DIYDog Portraits will show children how to turn the love for their pet into a timeless work of art.
There is something special about the relationship between a child and their dog. Dog Portrait DIY pays homage to this relationship by teaching children and their parents how to express their puppy love through art. An interactive guide on how to design, draw, and create dog portraits in a variety of mediums and techniques, Dog Portrait DIY is sure to please dog-lovers of all ages, and inspire artists both young and old. With 8 step-by-step dog portraits in pencil, pastel, paint, and even paper mosaics and a gallery of more than 30 portraits to inspire, this how-to book will show children how to turn the love for their pet into a timeless work of art.