Draw and Discover: Step by Step Instructions and Fun Facts! - Paperback

by Corinna Keefe (Author), Ana Peake (Illustrator)

This ingenious full-color book brings together art instructions and fun facts. Young readers will love learning about animals, transport, costumes, sports and more as they grow in artistic confidence.

The simple, step-by-step instructions in this book have been carefully designed to make drawing easy. Each project features up to nine steps, with each step introducing new strokes in a different color, for maximum clarity.

Each double-page spread also introduces intriguing ideas about the animals that readers are drawing.

- As they sketch a tiger's stripes, they can learn why tigers need stripes.
- While they are drawing a ship's sails, they can think about how sailors angle them to change the ship's direction.
- While drawing a tree, they can think about how its leaves capture the sun's energy.

This book really puts the "art" into "smart!"

Ideal for children aged 7+.

Author Biography

Ana Peake is an illustrator based in Austin, Texas. After ten years of graphic design and art direction experience, Ana discovered her love for illustration and bringing art into the lives of children. Since then she has created work for Minted, Target, Kendra Scott and Barnes & Noble. Her work celebrates her Mexican American heritage.

Corinna Keefe is a versatile author of fiction and non-fiction who has written extensively for both adults and children. Her short story The Specific Ocean was shortlisted for the Bournemouth Writing Prize, and her poetry has been published in Popshot Quarterly and Ink Sweat & Tears. She lives in Tunbridge Wells, England.