Ed Emberley's Fingerprint Drawing Book
With little more than some ink, paper, and your own fingers, you can  become an artist! Caldecott recipient Ed Emberley, author ofGo Away, Big Green Monster!, as  well as many creative art books (Ed Emberley's Great Thumbprint Drawing  Book,Ed Emberley's  Drawing Book: Make a World, etc.), shows readers how to turn  fingerprints into lions, basketball players, reindeer, "bean buddies,"  submarines, rainbow dragons, trees, even watermelon. Emberley provides  straightforward information about materials and techniques on the very first  page, then sets readers free to discover and explore. Step by step, Emberley  takes artists through the process, showing, for each picture, a fingerprint  first, then adding simple lines and other fingerprints to make the print evolve  into an entirely new entity. A mouse, for example, starts out as a brown oval  fingerprint. Next, two pink fingertip-print ears are added. A black dot makes a  nose. Two smaller dots become the eyes, and finally a few lines turn this blob  into a bewhiskered mouse head. Young artists can spend hours creating designs,  patterns, and decorative scenes with this fun technique, especially if they move  on to advanced finger-printing on the last page. (Ages 4 to 8)--Emilie  Coulter