Books with author David Antram

How To Draw Cartoons: This book helps you learn how to draw a variety of amusing cartoon characters and animals, from kooky cats to anthropomorphic cars, and combine them to make eye-catching, entertaining scenes. The How to Draw series takes a highly visual and practical approach to drawing, featuring step-by-step instructions for each art project. Duotone lines highlight each step. Each title covers a comprehensive range of rudimentary techniques - with sections on materials, composition and perspective. The How To Draw series is an excellent way to introduce the concepts of drawing to child and adult alike.

This interactive series will enthrall young and reluctant readers (Ages 8-12) by making them part of the story.Invites readers to become the main character. Each book uses humorous illustrations to depict the sometimes dark and horrific side of life during important eras in history. So you think your friends and family will stick by you through thick and thin? Then you wouldn't want to be accused of practicing witchcraft in 17th-century Salem--where practically everyone you know would send you to prison or even Gallows Hill, just to save themselves.

We all do it. We usually don't like to talk about it, but going to the toilet is a natural and necessary part of our lives.This series takes readers (Ages 8-12) on a historical journey, examining how people coped in the past and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and less unpleasant. Each book features full-color cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious speech bubbles to heighten interest, making the series attractive even to reluctant readers.We couldn't live without poop because there are some parts of our food that contain no nutrients that can be used by our bodies for energy, growth or health, and those parts have to be ejected. But poop can also be used to power our cars, heat our homes and help grow our crops. Learn why and how animals and people produce poop, and about the many marvellous uses for this misunderstood substance.

Few readers havent imagined themselves the king or queen of a fantastic castle with great torrents and a forbidding moat. This imaginative volume introduces readers to drawing basics. Once armed with these essential techniques they are taught how to use them to design the castle of their dreams. Using the step-by-step instruction readers will learn to create an underwater castle, an ice castle, and many other wonderful castles.

Yo ho ho! Raise the Jolly Roger—the pirates are here, with fantastic activities for kids to do! Ahoy, lads and lassies, scallywags and mateys! Even landlubbers are invited to join Bluebeard, Long John Silver, and the crew for some nonstop entertainment. Follow a maze till you find the lost treasure. Complete dot-to-dots to meet famous smugglers from the past. Draw a skull-and-crossbones. Plus, you get to do word searches, fill-in-the-blanks, and lots of other puzzles, games, and cool stuff!

Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for NonfictionAnimal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception.For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patters) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How, then, did humans come to sever their ancient reciprocity with the natural world? What will it take for us to recover a sustaining relation with the breathing earth? In The Spell of the Sensuous David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand of magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even at its most abstract--echoes the calls and cries of the earth. On every page of this lyrical work, Abram weaves his arguments with a passion, a precision, and an intellectual daring that recall such writers as Loren Eisleley, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez.

This book examines the many hazards of flying a fighter jet for the Royal Air Force during World War II.This interactive series will enthrall young and reluctant readers (Ages 8-12) by making them part of the story, inviting them to become the main character. Each book uses humorous illustrations to depict the sometimes dark and horrific side of life during important eras in history.

When someone helps you, gives you a gift, or does something nice, it's important to say thank you. With these decorate-them-yourself cards, kids will learn good manners even as they're having a good time. With designs like patterned dinosaur, a friendly caterpillar, and a cute kitten—and stickers, too—writing a thank you note isn't a task; it's a joy!

Pirating might sound like a fun business, but what is it like to be on the receiving end of it?This interactive series will enthrall young and reluctant readers (Ages 8-12) by making them part of the story, inviting them to become the main character. Each book uses humorous illustrations to depict the sometimes dark and horrific side of life during important eras in history. Pirates have many ingenious tortures, and once they have got what they want from you, the best you can hope for is to be marooned on an island.

Say HAPPY BIRTHDAY with a personalized card you make yourself! Give someone a happy-birthday greeting with one of these 20 cards plus envelopes! Each one features a different cheerful design, including a birthday cake, friendly elephant, and kooky monsters bearing gifts. Just color them in, tear out the perforated page, and send them to a friend. In addition to the cards, you get more than 100 stickers to use as decorations. Reformat of Color Your Own Birthday Cards boxed set.

Using this crafty book with more than 100 stickers, perforated pages, and envelopes, kids can say a personal “thank you” with their own homemade card! When someone helps you, gives you a gift, or does something nice, it's important to say thank you. With these decorate-them-yourself cards, kids will learn good manners even as they're having a good time. Adorable designs like patterned dinosaur, a friendly caterpillar, and a kitten to color in—plus plenty of stickers—turn the task of writing a thank-you note into a joy!

Do you think being a Roman gladiator seems glamorous? Think again! At gladiator school, you'll be taught to fight, kill, and die in a suitably sporting manner to entertain the Roman crowds. If you survive, you could become a hero - but don't count on it. This title in the popular You Wouldn't Want to Be series features full-colour illustrations which combine humour and accurate technical detail. Featuring brand new extra content including a timeline, fun facts a list of 'top' characters and a map.