Archives: Walter Foster Jr. Books
This activity and coloring book features over 50 "impossible" optical illusions to color along with, and activities that show you how to create your own optical illusions!
What happens when you try to color in an optical illusion? Find out with You Can't Possibly Color This!, a fascinating journey into the twisted world of illusions that will have you scratching your head as you attempt to color in objects that can’t exist in real life.
You'll get to discover devious devices, bizarre buildings, and intriguing animals of all shapes and sizes when you color along with these pages. Even better, you'll learn how to create impossible drawings of your own!
You Can't Possibly Color This! comes with more than 50 coloring activities, dozens of dot-to-dots, draw-your-own, fun facts, and other activities that will confound your brain even as they inspire you to figure out their mysteries. Amaze your friends with impossible pictures now!
ABC Baby Signs is a charming third installment in Christiane Engel's illustrated ABC for Me series, following in the footsteps of ABC Yoga and ABC Love.
One of the worst things for a parent is when their baby or toddler is distressed but can't communicate what's wrong. However, while they may not be able to speak yet, they can still gesture! That is where ABC Baby Signs comes in. This colorful book features twenty-six of the most common, simple baby signs, such as "all done," "more," and "please," to teach babies and toddlers basic ways to communicate with their hands before they can verbalize their needs.
ABC for Me: ABC Baby Signs features one sign per letter of the alphabet in a cute rhyming story. Adorable illustrations, and sweet, illustrated demonstrations make learning fun for kids and their parents alike!
The ABC for Me series presents a world of possibilities from A to Z and everything in between! For all little kids with big dreams, the endearing illustrations and mindful concepts in this series pair each letter of the alphabet with words that promote big dreams, inclusion, acceptance, healthy living, and other key concepts important to emotional well-being. Other books in this series include:
- ABC Yoga (2016)
- ABC Mindful Me (2018)
- ABC Earth-Friendly Me (2020)
- ABC The World & Me (2022)
Many Moons explores every phase of the moon through beautiful illustrations, and compares each phase to a different shape, such as a waxing moon and a banana!
Many Moons shows young children the different phases of the moon, from the new moon to a waning crescent, with a variety of beautiful, bright illustrations. Each spread features a specific phase of the moon, and compares it to different shapes, such as a cat's tail, a banana, or a brilliant smile.
The night sky is vast and beautiful, and to many children, a mysterious thing full of wonder. Why not nurture this sense of early curiosity? Many Moons introduces children to basic astronomy. Understanding the moon is a jumping off point to learning about the stars, space, the ocean tides, and so much more.
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!