Books with author Barbara Soloff Levy

Draw people of all shapes in just a few easy steps! Learn how to connect ovals, rectangles, and other geometric forms into cartoon-style images of a boy on a swing, a fireman, drummer, mailman, cowboy, and 25 other lively figures. Simple diagrams of three or four steps illustrate the basics of developing shapes and proportions, and blank pages provide plenty of room to practice.

In just a few easy steps, aspiring artists can learn to draw detailed, appealing images that celebrate every season. It's easy to sketch a springtime playground, a summer sandcastle, a fall squirrel with acorns, a winter sleigh, and many more images. You'll find 30 seasonal scenes in all. Use your new-found talents to embellish cards, gifts, flyers, posters, crafts — the creative possibilities are endless!

Ideal for designing festive cards, ornaments, and window decorations, this handy helper shows youngsters how to draw traditional Christmas pictures step by step.Simple applications of circles, squares, ovals, rectangles, and other configurations produce easy-to-color pictures of Santa and Mrs. Claus, an elf, Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer; a decorated tree, bells, holiday candles, a rocking horse, snowflakes, and 21 other holiday-related subjects.

Girls and boys ages 5 to 10 can learn to draw pirate pictures by using circles, ovals, rectangles, squares, and other shapes! There are 30 drawings to create: a crew of sailors, a pirate ship, a compass, a cannon, doubloons, the Jolly Roger, and more. Simple directions and step-by-step illustrations make it easy and practice pages are included. Plus, the illustrations can be colored when finished.

With this appealing guide, kids ages 4 and up can combine basic shapes to form cartoon-style characters. Based on a proven, classroom-tested method, it features 30 four-step lessons. The simple shapes appear in a headline across the top of the page. Below, a second color highlights the addition of each new shape, making it easy for kids to follow along — plus, there's a practice space below each numbered step.

Kids ages 4 and up can learn to draw an octopus, starfish, pelican, and 27 other cartoon-style sea creatures. Based on a proven, classroom-tested method, this easy-to-follow guide features four simple steps for every character. Each step shows how to combine the basic shapes that run across the top of the pages. A second color highlights the addition of each new shape, making it easy for kids to follow along, and there's plenty of room to practice below each numbered step.

If you're fascinated by cars and trucks, you'll really enjoy the puzzles in this follow-the-dot book!Just connect the numbered dots in each large, full-page illustration to draw simple models of a dump truck, fire engine, ambulance, cement mixer, race car, dune buggy, school bus, convertible, police car, jeep, moving van, taxi, SUV, and 17 other cars and trucks.Pictures of children and animals are included in most of these entertaining illustrations — which, when completed, will give you a highway full of motorized vehicles. And when you finish each picture, you can have even more fun by coloring it.