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This colorful, oversized book is filled with hours of doodling, drawing, and fun. Starting with vivid color photographs with key pieces missing or the start of a new backdrop drawn in, readers are invited to finish the scene as they paint the missing half of a portrait, fill a summer sky with flying saucers, make a broccoli ballerina, give a dog his dinner, turn a teacup into a cowboy, draw heads inside hats and helmets, or teach a fish to talk. Pascale Estellon's clever artwork provides a whimsical launching pad for creative fun in this remarkable book.

Publishers Weekly

Originally published in France, this innovative workbook encourages readers to incorporate their own artwork into photographs--for example by drawing missing facial features on bisected photos of a man and woman, creating disguises for a shrimp and scallop, or transforming a pineapple, head of broccoli, and bunch of tomatoes into ballet dancers. The gently subversive format should especially appeal to unrepentant library book scribblers. Also available: Picture This. Ages 5 up. (Nov.)