What it says on the tin: a cute little fingerprint drawing book, with many ideas for different creations (mostly animals and insects, but also trees) artists can make with an inkpad, fingerprints, and a pen or marker. ( )

I love this book! My kids love it less than they ought to. It is possible that they are simply spoiled and ungrateful. They also don't like getting their fingers inky and are ridiculously perfectionist, so that could contribute to their lack of enthusiasm. None of this stops me from getting it out once a year or so and animatedly suggesting that some fingerprint art would be a great addition to those thank-you notes they're writing.

Really, I just need to add fingerprint art to the thank-you notes I write and leave my kids alone, but I nag them about so little, it seems a pity not to nag them about this. What's that you say? Nagging doesn't often lead to someone enthusiastically embracing something they didn't previously love? To this I respond: Where's your data supporting this claim? Until I have data to the contrary, I'm sticking with the nagging plan. ( )

Learn to draw the Ed Emberley way

Book by Ed Emberley