Most Popular Books by Ed Emberley

Die-cut pages through which bits of a monster are revealed are designed to help a child control nighttime fears of monsters.

A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.

I've looked low,
I've looked high, but...
Where's my sweetie pie?

Little ones will love listening and playing along with this adorable lift-the-flap book from beloved Caldecott Award-winning author/illustrator, Ed Emberley. Featuring a heart-shaped die-cut on the front cover and seven fun lift-the-flaps inside, this interactive board book shows a variety of cuddly critters hiding in all different places-but there's no sweetie pie to be found! The anticipation of what's hiding on the next page will keep kids guessing and giggling all the way to the surprise ending-when a double lift-the-flap reveals a heart-shaped mirror and shows who the real sweetie pie is!

Using simple shapes, Ed Emberley shows would-be artists how to draw a variety of creepy and scary Halloween creatures, such as witches, bats, monsters, and more! This book is packed with cool things that kids-and not a few adults-really want to draw. Easy and fun, the book provides hours of art-full entertainment.

Shows how to draw weirdos in step-by-step illustrations, including vampires, witches, and werewolves.

Explains how to use a few simple shapes, letters, numbers, and symbols to draw almost any animal.

Monsters of different colors explain what makes them feel glad, sad, loving, worried, silly, and angry. Fold-out masks encourage readers to talk about their feelings.

A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.

Using simple shapes, Ed Emberley shows would-be artists how to draw over 400 things, such as an airplane, anteater, submarine, train, kangaroo, gondola, and much much more! This classic book is packed with cool things that kids-and not a few adults-really want to draw. Easy and fun, the book provides hours of art-full entertainment.

Ed Emberley''s Classic Drawing Books.

The drawing pad shows how to use simple lines to turn gumdrop shapes into whimsical animals, birds, bugs and objects. Step by step drawings show you how.

Just add Ed Emberley''s simple ''''alphabet'''' to your thumbprints and fingerprints, and you can create funny thumbprint faces, animals, and bugs, as well as colorful fingerprint pictures including frogs, trains, and flowers. Easy and fun, these books provide hours of art-full entertainment.

Step-by-step instructions for drawing people and animals using a minimum of line and circle combinations.

Shows ways to turn fingerprints into animals, birds, or people.

Learn to draw jack-o-lanterns, skeletons, witches, black cats, monsters, and more in this how-to-draw book by drawing master Ed Emberley-perfect for the Halloween season and all year round! Using his "alphabet" of shapes and squiggles, Ed Emberley shows new artists the easiest method to create more than 50 creepy creatures and critters. This brand-new bindup edition-featuring color on the interior-of Ed Emberley''s Drawing Book of Halloween and Ed Emberley''s Drawing Book of Weirdos will make doodling a blast for kids age 7 and up. Over 2 million Ed Emberley drawing books have been sold!

Provides simple instructions for drawing a variety of trucks and trains.

Instructions for creating a variety of shapes and figures using fingerprints and a few simple lines.

One by one, ten little monsters appear and then disappear from the page.

Ed Emberley shies away from calling himself an artist and instead likes to say that he draws pictures for a living. Now in his eighties, Ed Emberley is a Caldecott award-winning children's book illustrator and writer who has been creating original books since the 1960s. He has written and illustrated more than 100 books and is perhaps best known for his beloved how-to-draw books for kids.

Hop into bed,Turn over thrice,And whisper this softly:Night's nice, night's nice, night's nice.Good Night.NIGHT'S NICE will lull little ones to sleep with its soothing, sing-song text and picturesque, stunning nightscapes throughout. From moonlit treetops and city streetlamps to luminous fireworks on the 4th of July, Ed's watercolor illustrations poignantly capture the beauty of nighttime in this reissue of his classic children's story.