cover image Doodletastic!

Doodletastic!

North-South. North-South, $12.95 paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-7358-4047-8

Open-ended prompts invite readers to complete 77 unfinished black ink–drawn illustrations (not all seen by PW). In a nighttime spread, a man in a top hat prepares to dig a hole as a pair of rabbits look on: “What’s in this hole?” While plenty of the questions and prompts are of a cheerful or reassuring nature (“Draw Leo’s snowman”; “Lead this little animal to its parents”), there’s a mischievous streak at work, too: children are invited to draw a traffic jam, fill a crocodile’s belly with whatever it just ate, and explain “What’s happening here?” in a scene that shows a dog lifting its leg. All ages. (Oct.)