Books published by publisher Walter Foster

Learn to draw all of your favorite birds and butterflies--step by step!Perfect for young artists-in-training, Learn to Draw Birds & Butterflies offers a comprehensive drawing experience that includes step-by-step lessons, as well as full-color photographs, fun facts, trivia, quizzes, and much more. Each drawing lesson begins with a basic shape, such as a square, a circle, or a triangle, and progresses to a finished colored piece of artwork, making it easy for children to follow along. Along the way, engaging text describes interesting facts about each bird and butterfly. Includes birds such as flamingo, peacock and Kingfisher and butterflies such as Monarch, Red Admiral and Adonis Blue.

Learn about unusual shapes along with the alphabet in ABC Shapes, a fun and educational board book that combines the ABCs with fun and unconventional shapes. Going beyond the typical preschool shapes like circles and squares, ABC Shapes introduces arches and ellipses, cubes and wedges, and even helixes and nanagons. Each page highlights an unusual shape, one for every letter of the alphabet, and features a colorful illustration. The beautiful and engaging illustrations of animals, people, and objects prominently feature each shape, ensuring parents and children love learning the fundamentals of shapes and the alphabet together. The Little Concepts series helps young readers learn their ABCs with adorable illustrations featuring unique animals, colors, languages, and even healthy foods. From A to Z, learning the alphabet (even in Spanish and French!) has never been so surprising and engaging.

An endearing twist on learning your ABCs!ABC Love pairs each letter of the alphabet with a word that teaches young children about important concepts like love, acceptance, affection, values, and warmth. A fun family read with playful, rhyming text, ABC Love makes learning the alphabet interactive and fun for preschool children and older. Its engaging illustrations and text promote togetherness between kids and their family and encourages them to act out each "love list" item, including everything from "dance" for "D", "hug" for the letter "H", and to "share" for "S".

Learn to Draw Disney Favorite Princesses helps young artists capture the likenesses of Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Ariel, Jasmine, Mulan, Pocahontas, and Tiana. Whether she comes from a faraway land, a delightful castle, an enchanted wood, or under the sea, each princess featured in Learn to Draw Disney Favorite Princesses has her own special story about her journey to “happily ever after.” Now young princesses-in-training can imagine their own fairy tales while learning to draw their favorite Disney princesses. Also included are other characters from the time-cherished Disney movies that made these princesses legendary. All you'll need to start drawing are a few art supplies. And the easy-to-follow instructions in this book will guide you through each step, showing you how each step builds upon the next to create a finished piece of art. You just need to grab a pencil, a piece of paper, and your copy of Learn to Draw Disney Favorite Princesses, and flip to the character you want to draw. You’ll draw the basic shapes shown in step one, and move on to step two, step three, and keep going! The new lines in each step are shown in blue, so you’ll know exactly what to draw. After adding all the details in each step, darken the lines you want to keep and erase the rest. Finally, add color to your drawing with felt-tip markers, colored pencils, watercolors, or acrylic paints. Plus, learn some fun facts about the princesses as you learn to draw them. Included in this book are drawing projects for Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, Tiana and Tiana as a frog, Naveen and Naveen as a frog, Louis, Ray, Ariel, Prince Eric, Sebastian, Flounder, Belle, the Beast, Jasmine, the Genie, Aladdin, Rapunzel, Flynn Rider, Pascal, Merida, Elinor the Bear, Mulan, and Pocahontas. Brief character descriptions and art instruction from professional Disney animators round out this exciting artistic adventure.

Every night, the sky is filled with stars that tell a thousand tales. Brave warriors, regal queens, fierce beasts—they all parade across the starry skies each night. In Starry Skies, you’ll discover some of the most famous constellations and learn how to find them in the night sky. With brilliant illustrations by Nila Aye, you will see the shapes of each constellation, and imagine what they might look like when you look up into the dark sky above. This introduction to astronomy is all you need to start learning about stars, so get ready, star hunters, and look to the skies!

Young children can learn about letters with Shimmer and Shine! With Nickelodeon’s Shimmer and Shine Write & Wipe ABC, kids practice the alphabet with this write-and-wipe book. A dry-erase marker is included! In Nickelodeon’s Shimmer and Shine Write & Wipe ABC, Shimmer and Shine join kids as they learn the alphabet! Mixing the alphabet with the sweet and fun twin genies from Zahramay Falls makes ABCs magical for young learners. Toddler and preschool-age children will love the letter associations. It won't be hard to remember the alphabet when you know that "G is for Genie!" And it gets even more fun when kids practice writing letters on the write & wipe pages. This book provides tracing and composition practice, and it even comes with a specially sized dry-erase marker to fit small hands. Wipe the pages clean for endless adventure. Nothing makes writing the ABCs more exciting than learning them with Shimmer and Shine!

With Learn to Draw Disney’s Villains, young Disney fans will enjoy drawing the villainous characters everyone loves to hate from such favorite films as Toy Story, Cars, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, 101 Dalmatians, and many others. This 144-page book features easy step-by-step instructions for drawing a wicked queen, an evil stepmother, a dark sorcerer, a devious, strawberry-scented bear and more than 25 more sinister Disney and Disney•Pixar characters. Inside are drawing projects for Captain Hook, Maleficent, the Queen of Hearts, Cruella De Vil, Ursula, Jafar, Scar, Zurg, and many more! All you'll need to start drawing are a few supplies. The easy-to-follow instructions in this book will guide you through each step, showing you how each step builds upon the last to create a finished piece of art. You just need to grab a pencil and a piece of paper, and your copy of Learn to Draw Disney's Villains. Flip to the character you want to draw. You’ll draw the basic shapes shown in step one, and move on to step two, step three, and keep going! The new lines in each step are shown in blue, so you’ll know exactly what to draw. After adding all the details in each step, darken the lines you want to keep and erase the rest. Finally, add color to your drawing with felt-tip markers, colored pencils, watercolors, or acrylic paints. Drawing tips from professional Disney artists are sprinkled throughout the pages to create a fun drawing experience for any Disney fan or aspiring artist. So grab your drawing pencils and paper and get ready to draw Disney villains!

101 Movies to See Before You Grow Up is the must-see movie list for future critics! Choose one of these family-friendly films and record your reactions. Movies can make you think, teach you a lesson, or just let you escape into a fantasy world for a few hours. But most importantly, movies are made to entertain! 101 Movies to See Before You Grow Up serves as an interactive bucket list of films for children ages 8 and up to watch before they grow up. This collection of great movies goes beyond mainstream films; you'll find modern flicks everyone loves, but also plenty of classic films no one should miss. Each page focuses on a single movie with basic information about each film, including the director, run time, rating, and date of release. There is also the all-important "Film Critic" section at the bottom of each page where young movie buffs can write their own impressions and observations about the movie, right on the pages! 101 Movies to See Before You Grow Up is the perfect handbook for movie-lovers of all ages, helping both kids and parents choose classic and contemporary movies appropriate for the entire family.

Combine your love of classic literature and doodling with this fun, quirky, and inspirational doodle journal!Book lovers, bibliophiles, and literati, get ready to take your clever illustrations and lit memes to the next level. Designed to appeal to seasoned artists and doodle enthusiasts alike, Doodling for Bookworms is packed with more than 50 fun and inspirational prompts, drawing exercises, and literature factoids. With her cute and clever art style, professional illustrator Gemma Correll takes readers on a doodling journey that sparks the imagination and spurs doodlers to explore, experiment, and brainstorm unique ways to doodle their favorite stories and writers. Doodling for Bookworms invites literature aficionados on a doodling adventure through time-treasured books, plays, and writers. From Poe, Austen, and Shakespeare to Romeo and Juliet, Jane Eyre, Dracula, and Frankenstein, readers will discover how to create their own whimsical doodles of their favorite authors and literary characters. With its portable format and plenty of open doodling pages, this series is perfect for on-the-go creative types.

It's show time! This Super Skills title introduces budding filmmakers to the world of movie making. Using the amazing cameras available on cell phones and tablets, kids can learn the filming and editing basics for developing their own movies. Is your story a comedy? A drama? Are you documenting an event? From the "pre-production" basics of plot and script to the fun of getting to know cameras, camera angles, moving shots, and lighting, How to Make a Movie in 10 Easy Lessons takes you through the full production process. Discover tips for sharp editing, learn the difference between long shots and wide angles, explore tips for writing a clever script, and much more.

Learn how to cook in 10 easy lessons, and become an expert in the kitchen in no time!In the Super Skills series, kids can master a new talent in 10 easy lessons! How to Cook in 10 Easy Lessons is a comprehensive cookbook for aspiring young chefs that introduces children to the art of cooking and breaks it down to the basics in a fun and interactive way. Young chefs will learn key skills and practical techniques from a professional chef that will help them become experts in the kitchen in no time. Easy-to-follow recipes then help guide kids as they practice their newfound cooking skills. With an inviting format and step-by-step illustrations, this is the perfect book for kids to gain the confidence and skills necessary to learn how to cook themselves.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been a popular fixture in children's entertainment for more than 20 years. Now, thanks to the clever minds at Nickelodeon Studios, these pizza-craving, crime-fighting superheroes are on the verge of a major comeback! With a new TV show and major motion picture in development, as well as plans to roll out an all-new toy line, video games, apparel, and more, there has never been a better time to learn to draw these half-shelled superheroes. This 64-page book will teach readers how to master drawing Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo in a variety of poses step by easy step. Turtle Power!