Books with author Katie Cook

Helping children with autism strengthen their connections―simple, supportive strategiesTo help you in your efforts to help your child flourish, this book has 90 playful, evidence-based activities. Thriving with Autism provides an easy, effective toolbox to supplement and support the developmental work parents and caregivers are doing with their children. These solutions are designed for kids with autism from ages 1 to 11. The benefits can last a lifetime.From building better conversation abilities to strengthening social skills, Thriving with Autism delivers practical, everyday ways to connect, encourage, and play. Featuring exercises like Acts of Friendliness, The Human Burrito, and Emotional Charades, this comprehensive guide encourages your child with autism to boost their communication, engagement, and self-regulation skills.Thriving with Autism features: Hands-on activities―Make learning fun with lots of lessons that can help kids across the autism spectrum. Simple strategies―Tackle these easy, research-driven activities one by one at home.Engaging and practical―Find helpful tips and suggestions, as well as full-color illustrations that are sure to inspire and delight you and your child.Now there’s a smart, sensible way to help teach kids with autism necessary skills.

Fun fact: A lot of animals are shaped like potatoes.Another fun fact: Potatoes are easy to draw.Another another fun fact: If you can draw a potato, you can draw animals. Master of cute Katie Cook teaches you how to draw everything adorable in her first tutorial book with quick and easy-to-follow step-by-step lessons. All you need is a pencil and paper...or a napkin or a wall, depending on how confident you are in your drawing ability. Learn how to turn curvy blobs, shapes and squiggles into more than 200 different things, including fuzzy animals, cute food and inanimate objects like yarns balls, luggage and a toaster. Add nubbins, swishy bits, and little smiley faces to anything and everything to transform it into something really, really cute. • How to draw lots of cats: fluffy cats, non-fluffy cats, cats in boxes, Polaroids of cats on refrigerators* • How to draw food like ketchup delivery sticks, spicy dragon claws and tiny broccoli trees • Perfect for doodling during class or in meetingsFor fans of drawing turkeys from hand outlines (gobble, gobble) or Ed Emberley's super simple drawing instruction books that use shapes, letters and even thumbprints as starting points, Drawing Cute with Katie Cook is a must-own adorable drawing manual, complete with Doctor Who references, fun facts and bad puns. "If you know how to draw a potato, the art world is an open door." --Katie Cook * Don’t worry, there are lots of dog drawings, too!

Helping children with autism strengthen their connections—simple, supportive strategiesTo help you in your efforts to help your child flourish, this book has 90 playful, evidence-based activities. Thriving with Autism provides an easy, effective toolbox to supplement and support the developmental work parents and caregivers are doing with their children. These solutions are designed for kids with autism from ages 1 to 11. The benefits can last a lifetime.From building better conversation abilities to strengthening social skills, Thriving with Autism delivers practical, everyday ways to connect, encourage, and play. Featuring exercises like Acts of Friendliness, The Human Burrito, and Emotional Charades, this comprehensive guide encourages your child with autism to boost their communication, engagement, and self-regulation skills.Thriving with Autism features: Hands-on activities—Make learning fun with lots of lessons that can help kids across the autism spectrum. Simple strategies—Tackle these easy, research-driven activities one by one at home.Engaging and practical—Find helpful tips and suggestions, as well as full-color illustrations that are sure to inspire and delight you and your child.Now there’s a smart, sensible way to help teach kids with autism necessary skills.

Gronk is a monster... and not a very good one. Gronk tells the tale of a young monster who has turned her back on monsterdom (mostly because no one found her scary) and has become fascinated with humans. She moves in with her human friend Dale and her pets Kitty and Harli, a 160 lb. Newfoundland Dale wants to declare as a dependent to the IRS. Enjoy the first installment from this popular kids webcomic in a wonderful, full-color collection!

The latest, full-color volume of Katie Cook's popular webcomic, Gronk! This new installment has never been in print before and is coming to Action Lab as a brand-spankin' NEW book! Follow Gronk and her friends' adventures for another silly, fun, weird year. Like cats? This book has 'em. Like dogs? We have those too. Like tiny green monsters? Look no further, you've found your new favorite book!

Brilliant new activity book for young children who love all things purple.My Perfectly Purple Sticker and Doodling Purse is a fabulous new activity book packed full of everything purple and sparkly! Young children will love to use all the stickers to complete the book or anywhere they fancy! The combination of bright photography and super cute illustration will delight every young child and keep them entertained for hours on end. The Carry-Me handle is ideal for children to take the book with them wherever they go so they always have something to do and look cool and grown-up at the same time!