New Releases by Joy Sikorski

A guide for transforming the sound of your voice so that your child can model excellence in language and communication skills.

Bigger, better, and flexi-bound: Joy Sikorski and Nick Sunday have a new and improved format for their fun follow-up to How to Draw a Sailing Cat. Young readers will embark on an imaginative (and not too spooky) Halloween adventure with Little Man, a bold and curious cat, as he slips through the woods to a wonderful party for costumed trick-or-treaters. Lively pastel-and-pencil illustrations demonstrate how to draw more than 100 things encountered on the journey. well as in trade bookstores.

Welcome to a whimsical new series! Joy Sikorski (How to Draw a Radish) has created a playful tale that makes learning to draw fun and fear-free. Children join an adventurous tomcat named Little Man on a lively journey, discovering easy ways to capture what they see--including a reflection in a puddle, made from squiggly lines, and a hungry goat, friendly dog, and pigs wallowing in mud. By the end, kids will have successfully illustrated more than 100 things!

"Squeaky Chalk can teach anyone to be an artist! Featuring dozens and dozens of step-by-step pages and an activity and/or project at the end of each section, it lets readers test out their artistic skills at home or school. It''s a great introduction to cartooning, a welcome rainy-day project book, and a cool way to bust boredom. With a compact trim size and sturdy hidden wire binding, "Squeaky Chalk is a meaty 152 pages of activity fun! The special format makes it a great gift to slip into a backpack or sneak into a friend''s locker. Here''s an exercise in out-of-the-box thinking that is guaranteed to captivate children, parents, and teachers.

A delightfully engaging cornucopia of things to do when on vacation--or when dreaming of being on vacation--for children of all ages, including adults. How to Draw a Clam takes you anywhere you want to go with creativity imagination and a terrific sense of fun. It offers short escapes (open a suitcase filled with sand, remove shoes and socks, wiggle toes in sand) and longer trips (take a nice walk). A whimsical survey examines the various types of vacations, from the adventurous to the vegetative. Possible accommodations are also considered: hotel, friend''s couch, under a boat on a moonlit beach. How to Draw a Clam presents short tutorials on drawing deserts, cowfish, flip-flops, and more, and discusses exotic destinations, including beach resorts, ski resorts, and Ohio.

Learn how to draw a radish! Make beautiful earrings using only tape! Decorate with white-out! How to Draw a Radish: And Other Fun Things to Do at Work provides endless inspiration for wacky workplace entertainment with 83 drawing lessons (including Elvis, a cow face, and leeks vinaigrette), along with various other games and crafts for professional and personal beautification. Sturdily constucted with two pockets for special projects, organized with ten cardboard dividers, and small enough to fit in a briefcase, this handy spiralbound manual is a toy for grown-ups: playful, instructive, and absolutely irresistible.