Ed Emberley

Step-by-step instructions for making line drawings of animals, vehicles, furniture, buildings, people, and other things.

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

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

Simple rhyming text and illustrations guide the reader to see triangles, rectangles, and circles in everyday things.

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

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

Red Hen finds a recipe for a Simply Splendid Cake and asks her friends the cat, the rat, and the frog to help with the preparations. But it seems as though her friends want no part in the cake until it's ready to eat. Will they decide to pitch in, or let Red Hen do all of the hard work?

In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a monster swallows ants, a lizard, a bat, and other creatures to try to cure a stomach ache than began when he swallowed a tick.

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

Monsters sing their own version of this popular song that encourages everyone to express their happiness through voice and movement.