Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Trucks and Trains

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Summary: My kids are artists!
Review: Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Trucks and Trains is one of the best drawing books I have ever encountered. It starts the most complex designs with simple shapes, such as a long rectangle for a locomotive, and builds on it. My 4 year old nephew LOVES following the directions and building his trains. Be sure to have plently of colored pencils or markers on hand to help enhance the drawings. I love this book and I am looking into buying more.

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Summary: Excellent! Fun! Simple! Entertaining!
Review: Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Trucks and Trains is one of the best drawing books I have ever encountered. It starts the most complex designs with simple shapes, such as a long rectangle for a locomotive, and builds on it. My 4 year old nephew LOVES following the directions and building his trains. Be sure to have plently of colored pencils or markers on hand to help enhance the drawings. I love this book and I am looking into buying more.

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Summary: I was disapointed.
Review: I bought this book because my son loves trains and is not very good at drawing. He is six years old. While I could follow the instructions, it was really rather complex for my son and the pictures were rather complex too. I wanted to help him make simple 6 year old drawings that he could be proud of and this wasn't the book to accomplish that.

While alot of the drawings in the books simply require you to be able to make a triangle or a square etc, often it's a tiny traingle placed in an obscure part of the picture. You are also required to change color to follow along step by step or you can get lost, instead of just being able to draw the out line in one color first, then filling in the details. This was just too complex for what I was trying to accomplish.

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Summary: Drawing Trains!
Review: My grandmother's house had train tracks running near by and I spent lots of time watching the trains go by. I loved trains and therefore loved this particular Emberley book. I drew hundreds of complex train and road scenes as a kid.

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Summary: My kids are artists!
Review: We checked this book out at the library, and realized we needed our own copy! Easy to follow diagrams make drawing cars, cable cars, trains, trucks, even horses so easy! I (the mom) am learning how to draw too.