Dots & Spots by Kelli Chipponeri, Ryan Hayes

Dots & Spots

by Kelli Chipponeri and Ryan Hayes

Dots & Spots: A Super-Duper Squiggly Doodle & Drawing Book is a wacky sketchbook that probes the depths of the imagination through creative prompts and a series of colorful dots and spots to inspire hilarious and quirky drawings.

With this 112-page super-duper activity book, all you need is your imagination and pencil to sketch, doodle, and design exciting—and sometimes silly—pieces of art. Discover how many things you can draw by starting with just a circle! With Dots & Spots, you can:
  • Design your own emojis
  • Sketch a kooky miniature golf course
  • Draw a mythical creature that lives in an undersea cave
  • "Bake" a pizza pie with pizzazz
  • Decorate flying donuts
  • Color in your own superhero costume
  • Doodle the eyes on a monster
  • Draw all the ingredients in the witch's cauldron
  • And so much more!
On each page of Dots & Spots you will find a wacky drawing prompt, along with the actual spots and dots that will help you start drawing. These questions will inspire unusual, amusing, and super-silly pieces of artwork. The ever-changing size and position of the colorful spots will push you beyond your comfort zone and make you change your perspective with every page turn. With more than 100 inspirational dots, spots, and prompts, this book will really get your creative juices flowing!

Dots & Spots: A Super-Duper Squiggly Doodle & Drawing Book is the perfect activity book for when you have artist’s block or when you just want to sit back, draw, and let your mind wander.

Reviewed by annieb123 on

4 of 5 stars

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Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Dots & Spots is a fun drawing guide full of prompts for younger readers. Due out 1st Sept 2020 from Quarto on their Walter Foster Jr. imprint, it's 80 colorful pages.and will be available in paperback format.

A short how-to-use-this-book tutorial (2 pages) is followed by pages and pages of colorful dots and a prompt for what the dots could be (a spaceship, a monster, a robot). This little book will provide hours and hours of entertainment.

This is a very simple concept, but very well done. This would make a super rainy-day or quarantine activity book.

Four stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

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  • Started reading
  • 28 July, 2020: Finished reading
  • 28 July, 2020: Reviewed