Archives: Walter Foster Jr. Books
ABC Spanish is a fun family read that pairs each letter of the Spanish alphabet with a Spanish word, its English translation, and a beautiful illustration.
A for ardilla (squirrel), B for búho (owl), and C for cocodrilo (crocodile)! Pairing each letter of the Spanish alphabet with the Spanish word for an identifiable animal or object and its English translation, ABC Spanish is a gorgeously illustrated, engaging read that makes learning the alphabet and Spanish words fun for the entire family. The included pronunciation guide helps teach the proper pronunciation of each animal, making this book a perfect introduction to the Spanish language.
The Little Concepts series helps young readers learn their ABCs with adorable illustrations featuring unique animals, colors, languages, and even healthy foods. From A to Z, learning the alphabet (even in Spanish and French!) has never been so surprising and engaging.
Creating modern art masterpieces has never been easier with Sticker Pictures! With Sticker Pictures: Animals, color and customize geometric portraits of 14 animals with the provided stickers, along with crayons and colored pencils.
Take coloring to the next level with these bright, geometric color-by-number templates of your favorite animals. Sticker Pictures: Animals is filled with 14 polygonal images to color, including a dog, cat, lion, and panda. At first you just see a white page with lines and numbers, but use the included stickers along with some coloring tools to fill in each image, and as you work, watch the animal portrait start to take shape! And a finished, colored animal portrait is there to guide you if you need it.
All you need to get started are colored pencils, crayons, markers, or even paints, and the shaped polygon stickers included in the back of this book. The icons on the sticker sheets show which stickers are assigned to each animal. To create each picture, match the numbered stickers to each numbered space in the animal outlines. Then color in the shapes marked with circles. As you fill in the shapes, you will gradually reveal the animal in each picture!
The animals in this book include:
- Raccoon
- Dog
- Fox
- Cat
- Pig
- Cow
- Owl
- Rabbit
- Mouse
- Giraffe
- Lion
- Panda
- Hippo
- Bear
Creating modern, geometric portraits of animals has never been easier than with Sticker Pictures: Animals!
101 timeless TV shows for kids to discover and for families to watch together, all in one book. Can you watch them all?
An interactive and comprehensive list of 101 TV shows for families to enjoy together, this book features a wide selection of age-appropriate "must see" TV shows, from popular picks of today to classic shows of decades past. Each page focuses on a single TV series with basic information about each show, including the actors, years of production, and rating. There is also a section at the bottom of each page that allows young television buffs to write in their own opinions and observations about the show. From toddler to tween and every age in between, 101 TV Shows to See Before You Grow Up is a fun handbook for TV lovers of all ages, guaranteed to introduce you to shows that will make you laugh, teach you lessons, and allow you to escape into another world for an episode or two.
A 2018 Notable Poetry Book for Children (National Council of Teachers of English)
Selected for Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2018 by NCSS-CBC, a cooperative project of the National Council for the Social Studies and the Children’s Book Council
Traveling the Blue Road is a carefully curated collection of kid-friendly poetry about the ever inspiring subject of the ocean. Themes include pilgrimages, migration, culture, and more.
Prepare to be inspired by the sea with Traveling the Blue Road. This book is packed with gorgeous illustrations that surround a collection of poetry for children on the themes of the courage, beauty, and promise of sea voyages.
Compiled and edited by award-winning poet Lee Bennett Hopkins, the poems describe how the sea has historically shone as a metaphor for both hope and despair, and served as a pathway for people searching for new life. Traveling the Blue Road includes poems about the pilgrims coming to the New World, the Mariel boatlift, the Vietnamese boat people, a Dutch slave ship, the current migration situation in the Mediterranean, and the voyage of the St. Louis.
Contributing poets include Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Paul B. Janeczko, J. Patrick Lewis, Allan Wolf, Marilyn Nelson, Denver Butson, Georgia Heard, Jane Yolen, Naomi Shihab Nye, and G. Neri, and Margarita Engle, the recently named Young People's Poet Laureate.
Named one of Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year, 2018!
Unite, learn, and discover with the Avengers! In Marvel's Avengers Chalkboard Colors, Iron Man, Captain America, the Hulk, Black Widow, Thor, and Hawkeye join kids as they learn the colors red, yellow, blue, white, green, purple, orange, black, brown, and gray. There has never been a more exciting way for toddler and preschool-age children to learn to identify and write the names of colors. Intuitive associations, like Iron Man’s red and yellow suit, keep young attention spans engaged as they learn the basics. It's the perfect book for parents to complete with their children, or young students to explore on their own.
Children can draw right on the pages of the book as they practice writing skills, and the write-and-wipe blackboard style pages make clean-up easy. The book even comes with chalk specially sized for small hands. Nothing makes learning exciting like your favorite Marvel Super Heroes!
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! You will also be able to draw Spider-Man villains, including:
- Venom
- Vulture
- Lizard
- The Green Goblin
- Rhino
- Doctor Octopus
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!
With Learn to Draw Star Wars, you can learn to draw your favorite characters. Inside you'll find drawing projects for Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, C-3PO, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, Darth Vader, a Stormtrooper, and Yoda. You will learn using 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 a Jedi, Sith Lord, droid, or Wookie! This 64-page, spiral-bound book includes tracing paper to accompany the tracing projects, practice grids to draw on, and practice pages after each basic shapes project. All you need is a pencil to get started!
Learn to Draw Star Wars will provide countless hours of artistic fun for Star Wars fans of all ages. So grab your drawing pencils and get ready for an artistic adventure across the Star Wars universe!
Inside this 64-page, spiral-bound book, you will find drawing projects for Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket, Drax, and Groot. You can even learn how to draw Peter Quill's ship, the Milano. You will learn using 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 illustrations 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 one of the Guardians of the Galaxy!
This book contains 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 Guardians of the Galaxy will provide countless hours of artistic fun forGuardians fans of all ages. So grab your drawing pencils and get ready for an artistic adventure across the galaxy!
Everyone loves dinosaurs! Now, young children with small fingers can easily place a T-rex on a mountaintop and a Brontosaurus in the ocean for hours of imagination!
Our stickers are big, making sticker play fun for younger kids who haven't quite mastered their fine motor skills. These stickers, along with 22 pages of colorful landscapes, are sure to inspire hours of imaginative play and storytelling, all without any fuss or muss!
There are no rules or set places for stickers to go, so your child's imagination has free reign! These jumbo stickers are perfect for learning fine motor skills, and even the youngest children can have loads of fun.
We all love making funny faces. Now kids can get in on the fun with Jumbo Stickers for Little Hands: Funny Faces. This interactive activity book lets kids place a lion's head on a girl's body, or place a girl's head on an octopus' body.
Also included in Jumbo Stickers for Little Hands: Funny Faces are stickers of eyes, ears, noses, and mouths along with four blank heads so kids can make silly faces that are totally original. These stickers, along with 22 pages of colorful and joyful illustrations are sure to inspire hours of imaginative play and storytelling.