Archives: Walter Foster Jr. Books

Perfect for young artists-in-training, Learn to Draw Exotic Animals offers a comprehensive drawing experience that includes step-by-step lessons, as well as full-color photographs, fun facts, trivia, quizzes, and much more. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape, such as a square, a circle, or a triangle, and progresses to a finished colored piece of artwork, making it easy for children to follow along. Along the way, engaging text describes interesting facts about each exotic animal. Children will love learning to draw exciting animals, such as a degu, giant toad, panther chameleon, squirrel monkey, and more!

With Jumbo Stickers for Little Hands: Jungle Animals, sticker fans of all ages can play with oversize stickers of colorful, jungle animals.

Jumbo stickers are a bonanza of playtime fun for every child. The colorful and joyful illustrations are sure to inspire imaginative play and storytelling. From Siamese fighting fish to lions, tigers, monkeys, zebras, butterflies, and panda bears — what's your favorite animal? With 22 pages of jungle scenes, monkeys can hang from trees…and so can elephants and lions! It's all about the imagination and fun of playing with stickers. Jumbo stickers are perfect for learning fine motor skills, and even the youngest children with the smallest fingers can have loads of fun.

Fish do the wildest things! (And you thought all they did was swim…)

In Fish Tricks, learn how fish use sound, color, and chemicals to talk to each other and camouflage and toxins to discourage predators. Many have cool body adaptations that help them find food and take care of their young.

Meet sea dragons and flatfish that use camouflage to hide from predators. Learn about archerfish that can knock land insects into the water with streams of spit, and anglerfish that grow glow-in-the-dark fishing lines from their heads to lure prey. Laugh at toadfish that make grunting and whistling sounds to attract mates and remora fish with suction cups on their fins that help them stick onto sharks and turtles. Read about fish parents such as cichlids that feed their young with mucus secreted onto their scales and cardinal fish that protect their eggs in their mouths.

Under the sea, a whole world of wonder exists that will fascinate the inquisitive mind of every child. Fish Tricks includes a glossary, an index, and fun learn-more adventures.

Perfect for young artists-in-training, Learn to Draw Safari Animals offers a comprehensive drawing experience than includes step-by-step lessons, as well as full-color photographs, fun facts, trivia, quizzes and much more. Children will enjoy the 64 pages of drawing instruction for a variety of exotic animals, including a lion, a giraffe, a hyena, and an aardvark. The book opens with brief information for getting started and the most popular breeds, the tools and materials needed, and some sample drawing exercises to warm up. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape, such as a square, a circle, or a triangle, and progresses to a finished colored piece of artwork, making it easy for children to follow along. Along the way, engaging text describes interesting facts about each featured animal. With a mix of art instruction and engaging information, Learn to Draw Safari Animals is the perfect way for children to discover more about their favorite animals, in addition to expressing their artistic side.

Animals from the Polar Regions are popular subjects among children, and Learn to Draw Polar Animals includes recognizable, engaging wildlife from both the Arctic and Antarctic. Now young artists can immerse themselves in the animal kingdom while learning to draw a variety of polar animals that range from cute and cuddly to massive and majestic. Learn to Draw Polar Animals is a fun and educational drawing book featuring easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions. The book opens with brief information for getting started, the tools and materials needed, and some sample drawing exercises to warm up. In Learn to Draw Polar Animals, young artists-in-training will learn to draw their favorite Arctic and Antarctic animals, including a polar bear, a killer whale, a penguin, an arctic fox, and a snowy owl, as well as many other cold-weather creatures. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape, such as a square, a circle, or an oval, and progresses step by step to a finished color piece of artwork, making it easy for children to follow along. Along the way, engaging text provides fun and interesting facts about each featured animal, allowing for an educational, well-rounded drawing experience. With a mix of art instruction and engaging information, Learn to Draw Polar Animals is the perfect way for children to discover more about Arctic and Antarctic creatures and critters, as well as express their artistic side.

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.
 

From animal tracking and survival skills to using a compass and growing vegetables, 101 Things to Do Outside is the perfect guide for young explorers and aspiring adventurers longing for a taste of the great outdoors. Right outside your front door, there’s a world bursting with adventures just waiting to be explored. This pocket-sized book is overflowing with things to try, do, learn, and remember (plus it has a handy checklist!). Includes helpful step-by-step illustrations and plenty of activities and lessons. Actvities include: Outdoor games such as beach basketball and giant chess; Outdoor art projects such as build a hammock and making bark rubbings; Outdoor nature activities such as bug hunting and fossil hunting; Outdoor gardening activities such as planting a boot garden and creating an herb window box; Outdoor exploring activities such as cooking on a campfire and sending message with a flashlight. The fourth installment of the 101 Things series encourages children to step away from the computer screen and experience nature firsthand from their very own backyards.

The step-by-step drawing exercises in Learn to Draw Disney•Pixar’s Finding Dory will have you drawing all your favorite characters from Finding Dory in no time!

Disney•Pixar's Finding Dory reunites everyone's favorite forgetful blue tang, Dory, with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?

Learn to Draw Disney•Pixar’s Finding Dory features all the popular characters from Finding Dory. With just a bit of practice, even beginning artists can draw all the characters in this 64-page book. It features easy step-by-step instructions for drawing baby Dory, adult Dory, her parents Charlie and Jenny, her clownfish friends Marlin and Nemo, the septopusHank, Dory’s old whale shark friend Destiny, Bailey the beluga whale, some sea lions (Fluke, Rudder, and Gerald), Becky the loon, and one of the cutest, cuddliest otters ever! All you'll need to start drawing are a few supplies. And the easy-to-follow instructions will guide you through each step, showing you how each step builds upon the last to create a finished piece of art.

You just need to grab a pencil, a piece of paper, and your copy of Learn to Draw Disney•Pixar’s Finding Dory, and flip to the character you want to draw. Draw the basic shapes shown in step one, and move on to step two, step three, and keep going! The new lines in each step are shown in blue, so you’ll know exactly what to draw. After adding all the details in each step, darken the lines you want to keep and erase the rest. Finally, add color to your drawing with felt-tip markers, colored pencils, watercolors, or acrylic paints.

Tips and insights from professional Disney artists are sprinkled throughout the pages of the book, creating a fun drawing experience for any Finding Dory or Finding Nemo fan. So grab your drawing pencils and paper and get ready to draw with Dory!

Learn to draw all of your favorite military vehicles–step by step!

Perfect for young artists-in-training, Learn to Draw Military Machines offers a comprehensive drawing experience that includes step-by-step lessons, as well as full-color photographs, fun facts, trivia, quizzes, and much more. Children will enjoy the 64 pages of drawing instruction for a variety of military vehicles, including the B-52 Bomber, the M1 Abrams Battle Tank, and the stealth fighter jet. The book opens with a brief description of how to get started, using basic drawing tools and some sample drawing exercises to warm up. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape, such as a square, circle, or triangle, and progresses to a finished piece of artwork, making it easy for children to follow along. Along the way, engaging text describes interesting facts about each vehicle and what it is used for. With a mix of art instruction and fun trivia, Learn to Draw Military Machines is the perfect way for children to discover more about their favorite vehicles, in addition to developing their artistic talents.

With creative and imaginative drawing prompts, My Time Capsule: All About Me! Art Journal is an interactive journaling experience that allows kids to record a slice of their lives to look back on later.

This entertaining sketchbook journal is filled with quick and easy-to-answer questions and space to write and draw the answers. Also included are stickers, suggestions of things to tape or paste into the book, things to color and cut out, and tips on how to doodle everyday life. Once the last prompt is complete, journalers will mark the date to open the time capsule journal, and then put the book away. Their time capsule awaits their older selves!

With My Time Capsule: All About Me! Art Journal, children can draw, doodle, design, and color the answers to questions about everyday life. Some prompts include:
 

  • If I could have three wishes granted, this is what they would be.
  • This is a memory of my favorite birthday… and this is a drawing of what I want for my next birthday!
  • This is what my bedroom looks like from above…. and when I look out my window, this is what I see.
  • This is an outline of my hand… and this is an outline of my foot.
  • This is a portrait of a special member of my family. This is why they are special to me.


Thought-provoking prompts, space to draw and write on every page, cut-outs, and a bonus sticker sheet drive creativity and engagement in the moment, as well as record things about everyday life that a child may otherwise forget. Each prompt is dated, so the book can be completed all at once or over a longer period of time, and in no particular order. Additionally, interactive activities demonstrate how to create a time capsule related to the art and activities completed in the journal and then hide it away for re-discovery years later.

Entertaining and fun in the moment, this drawing journal is also meant to be saved to become a treasured keepsake years later.