Books in Dover Doodle Books series

More creative than coloring, more satisfying than random sketching, this activity book will inspire you to express your own personal style. Design matching lockets for a pair of best friends, draw a companion for a teddy bear, create a home for a puppy, and fill in the details of other friendship-related scenes. These unfinished images offer loads of opportunities to doodle, plus the fun of coloring each completed drawing.

Sure to put youngsters in a New York state of mind, this book of more than 100 doodles introduces them to the city that never sleeps through local and unique illustrations and activities, from the classic (coloring the lights on top of the Empire State Building) and the fun (creating a subway car) to the just plain wacky (doodling a giant cockroach). The book's convenient size makes it a perfect souvenir for tiny-tot tourists and little locals alike, and the projects require no previous drawing skills—just imagination. In addition to five doodle challenges, the book also incorporates QR codes to offer readers free doodles online.

Help spark young imaginations and creative energy with more than 60 almost-finished drawings. Budding artists can fill in fun details of career-related illustrations, including great discoveries by a scientist and an archaeologist, performances by an actor and a singer, the challenges faced by a firefighter and a paramedic, and creations of an interior decorator and a fashion designer.

Perfect for young artists looking to creatively capture their love for all things food, this book is filled with yummy-specific doodles that add fun and excitement to any moment of the day. From doodling a chef's hat or a box of cereal to decorating a cake or drawing a face after eating something gross, the doodles featured make this book the perfect accompaniment for restaurant trips, picnics, parties, school, and doodling on the road. Also included are details on how to access extra food doodles available for free online.

With a strong focus on local and unique illustrations and activities, Doodle Chicago allows young artists to create, imagine, and sketch their way through the Windy City. Each doodle has a definitive Chicagoland style, from drawing the Willis Tower or an El train to creating sketches in the style of architect Frank Gehry. Also included are cool extra doodles, available for free online by using the information contained on the pages inside the book. Perfect for young tourists to the city, this book helps them remember their visit while sparking their imagination and creativity.

Perfect for young artists looking to creatively capture their seaside experience, this book is filled with beach-specific doodles that add fun and excitement to a day spent at the beach. From drawing a sand castle or the contents of a whale’s belly to sketching the faces of passengers on a boat, the doodles featured are a great way to commemorate a vacation on the water. But the fun doesn’t end when the book is completed—extra beach doodles are available for free online by using the information contained on the pages inside the book.

For young artists who’ve left their hearts in San Francisco, this book allows them to create, imagine, and doodle their way through the City by the Bay. The doodles have a distinct San Francisco style, from sketching Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge to creating a unique, personalized cable car. But the doodles don’t end when the book is completed—a gold rush of extra doodles awaits for free online by using the information contained on the pages inside the book. Perfect for young tourists to the city, this book will help them remember their visit while sparking their imagination and creativity.