Pocket Doodles for Young Artists

Color Outside The Lines

Pocketdoodles for Young Artists inspires creativity by helping readers make their own comic strips, build skyscrapers, invent new machines, design delicious new recipes, and draw their very own masterpieces.

This fun addition to the best-selling Pocketdoodles series is sure to grab any child's imagination and carry it to new creative heights. Whether kids are waiting for the school bus or need something fun to do while visiting grandma, every moment becomes full of limitless possibilities.

Entertaining illustrations by Tom Bloom encourage creativity while adding fun and whimsy to any day. Using page after page of delightful doodling prompts written by Bill Zimmerman, young artists can turn an everyday dull moment into an amazing adventure.

Doodling prompts include:

Decorate this kimono. Design a house for your pet. Decorate her fingernails. What is he dreaming about? Draw your favorite dinosaur. Finish drawing these faces.

Bill Zimmerman has had a successful career as a journalist, prize-winning newspaper editor, and prolific book writer. Nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, Bill is a former journalist for Newsday and is the author of Doodles & Daydreams: Your Passport for Becoming an Escape Artist (Gibbs Smith, 2007) and Lunch Box Letters. He lives in New York City.

Tom Bloom's work includes illustrating two other books by Zimmerman-the best-selling Children's Letters to God and Make Beliefs-among many others. He draws regularly for the New York Times.