Bring out your inner artist by picking up a pen! Quirky, Cute Doodles will inspire you to create one-of-a-kind masterpieces that are bold, colorful, and creative, and will help you show your unique personality. Step-by-step instructions and timely tips encourage artists to explore their imagination, all while getting in touch with their artistic style. I highly recommend a new series from Capstone's Savvy imprint, "Doodles with Attitude". Both Quirky Cute Doodles and Free Spirit Doodles offer lots of open-ended ideas, from basic outlines to trace to suggestions on how to create a pattern. All you need is some paper, drawing materials, and some books with patterns to spark ideas.-- "SLJ, "Read It, Make It: Low-Tech Maker Projects and Titles Nonfiction Notions"" Challenging, design-focused coloring books have become increasingly popular. This series gives students tips and inspiration for making their own intricate designs. . . .A low entry point encourages students who don't think of themselves as "artistic" to get creating. A good source of at-the-drop-of-a-hat craft ideas...-- "School Library Journal" In each book, an introduction (with some boilerplate text) presents doodling as a creative, relaxing pastime and describes pens, brushes, inks, and paints to use. Subsequent pages provide examples for doodles, coloring templates, and projects that may appeal most to girly-girls (e.g., "doodling the word 'love' in three distinct styles"). Final pages suggest items to decorate: photographs, scarves, phone cases, etc. Reading list.-- "Horn Book" In this whimsical guide to the age-old craft of doodling, Corfee walks hopeful artists--and restless daydreamers--through the basics. The opening spread, complete with vibrant splashes of watercolor, intricate ink flowers, and a bowl of beaming cherries, sets the tone: "be silly, weird, and one of a kind." . . .Though Corfee offers basic outlines and suggested patterns (the "curvy swoosh," the "knobby circle," scallops, stars), she ultimately encourages the reader's discretion with instructions like "choose fun and energetic colors!" . . .Embellished scarves, hats, and pebbles will have young readers scrambling for the nearest pens.-- "Booklist" Stephanie Corfee is an artist, designer, and author from Malvern, Pennsylvania. She creates original and commissioned artworks combining paint and illustration, writes art books and kits, and licenses surface designs for gifts and accessories. Her artwork is colorful and whimsical, with a feminine, youthful spirit.