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Cool Books

Books that invite you to hold,
To flip and to savour
And some so bold
To have no words, just colours
All bound to bring wonder


Prices in Singapore dollar and shipping is currently in Singapore only.
Ed Emberley's Picture Pie
$
15.00    
 
 
Ed Emberley, an award-winning author, shows how to cut a basic circle into arcs and curves and use the pieces to draw birds, animals, snowmen, fish, and many other objects and designs.

Great for an infusion of art with mathematics, and suitable for both children and adults.

Read our blog entry for ideas.

Buy both Picture Pie books and get a complimentary sheet of 19 mm round stickers that come in red, blue, white, yellow and orange.

Dimensions: 28 cm by 22 cm by 0.5 cm
Pages: 48 pp

Number in stock: out of stock

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Ed Emberley's Picture Pie Two
$
15.00    
 
 
Ed Emberley, an award-winning author, shows how to cut a basic circle into arcs and curves and use the pieces to draw birds, animals, snowmen, fish, and many other objects and designs. Comes with an in-bound stencil.

Great for an infusion of art with mathematics, and suitable for both children and adults.

Read our blog entry for ideas.

Buy both Picture Pie books and get a complimentary sheet of 19 mm round stickers that come in red, blue, white, yellow and orange.

Dimensions: 28 cm by 22 cm by 0.5 cm
Pages: 48 pp

Number in stock: 2

Price in Singapore dollars, not including shipping charges.
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Drawing Lab: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun
$
36.00    
 
 
Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists offers readers a fun way to learn and gain expertise in drawing through experimentation and play. There is no right or wrong result, yet, the readers gain new skills and confidence, allowing them to take their work to a new level. Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques. Carla offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas, and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into your art and life.

Dimensions: 22 cm by 22 cm by 1.5 cm
Pages: 144 pp

Number in stock: 2

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Alphabet
$
25.90    
 
 
Transform each alphabet into an origami animal. How cool is that!

Each page is colourful and contains a hidden alphabet. Each alphabet can be torn out, then following the fold lines scored, transform it into an animal that starts with that alphabet.

This Japanese publication is a marvel to behold. Children will enjoy it and adults will also find it equally fascinating.

Dimensions: 18 cm by 18 cm
Pages: 30 pp
Spiral bound

Number in stock: 18 only

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Elephabet
$
19.90    
 
 
In Elephabet, Yusof Gajah shows his skill and inventiveness with his beloved ‘gajah’ to express his thoughts, both playful and philosophical, on everyday life. A treasure of a book, with each letter of the alphabet beautifully illustrated in Yusof Gajah’s inimitable signature style, this book entertains as well as provokes. A book to share and to keep!

Dimensions: 21 cm by 15 cm
Pages: 40 pp

Number in stock: 1, preorder required for more

See Cook Kits for the Elephabet flashcards.

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Drawing for the Artistically Undiscovered
$
32.50    
 
 
A friendly instruction book from world-famous illustrator Quentin Blake that provides inspiration for the artist in each of us, along with one pen, two pencils and plenty of white space in which to draw.

Quality materials include two watercolor pencils, one red, one black, and a sketch pen. This would be appropriate for anyone over 7.

A 1999 Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner.

Dimensions: 23 cm by 23 cm
Pages: 106 pp
Spiral-bound

Number in stock: 1 in stock, preorder required for more

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Watercolor for the Artistically Undiscovered
$
32.50    
 
 
Most of the pages in this book are actual watercolor paper with blank space reserved for the use of the reader/painter (that's you). Comes with a palette of six artist-quality watercolors and a brush. Most importantly, this book also comes with the artwork, technique tips and encouragement of renowned illustrator Thacher Hurd.

For ages 8 and up

Dimensions: 29 cm by 23 cm (includes watercolour tray)
Pages: 72 pp
Spiral-bound

Number in stock: 1

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Zoom
$
13.50    
 
 
A wordless book which imitates a zoom lens - in reverse. On each page the focus moves back to reveal a little more. Nothing is quite what it seems - the farmyard is in fact a model farmyard, which is a picture in a magazine, and so on - till at last the earth is seen from space as a tiny dot.

Zoom by Istvan Banyai is a visual treat and works well as a story starter and also for thinking about perspective.

Dimensions: 23 cm by 18 cm
Pages: 64 pp
Paperback

Number in stock: 3 copies only

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Re-zoom
$
13.50    
 
 
A wordless book which imitates a zoom lens - in reverse. This is a follow-up on Zoom also by Istvan Banyai. Featuring detailed drawings backpainted on animation cels, this text-free volume opens with a red-on-blue cave painting that, with the turn of a page, becomes a detail on a wristwatch. The next spread reveals that the watch belongs to a young man doing a rubbing of carved hieroglyphs and so on.

A fun book with a lot to say. Suitable for all ages.

Dimensions: 23 cm by 18 cm
Pages: 64 pp
Paperback

Number in stock: 2 copies

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The Doodle Notebook
$
18.50    
 
 
It's a doodle book. It's a notebook. Actually, it's both.

Great for ages 10 to 110, this doodle notebook is anything but the usual cute and quaint kind. It's subversive, irreverant, and most of all FUN! That's why every kid (and many adults too!) will want this fool-the-teacher notebook that offers oodles of doodle possibilities when the brain needs a break. On the surface, it looks exactly like one of those innocuous black-and-white marble composition books. But inside it has cartoons to imitate, unfinished doodles to complete, and games to play. Plus, it includes the scoop on what really happens in the teacher's lounge. Spark up a boring moment by competing in a caption contest, designing your own logo, making temporary tattoos, and mastering the art of note-passing and creating secret codes. Of course, since the teacher just might come walking by at any moment, there are even actual class notes to turn to.

Dimensions: 21 cm by 19 cm
Pages: 128 pp
Hardcover

Number in stock: 4 in stock

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Color Your Own Modern Masterpiece
$
8.00    
 
 
Art lovers and would-be painters of all ages are invited to interact with some of the greatest masters of 20th-century art by coloring 30 carefully rendered black-and-white line drawings, including Picasso’s Three Musicians, Sorrows of the King by Matisse, Léger’s The Big Parade, Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie-Woogie and other splendid works.

Colouring is fun for any one at ay age.

Dimensions: 28 cm by 21 cm
Pages: 32 pp
Paperback

Number in stock: 4

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Charley Harper Deluxe Coloring Book
$
12.90    
 
 
A Coloring Book that gracefully translates Charley Harper's illustrations of animals into black and white line work. In this lovely coloring book, young artists can create their own colourful originals using American illustrator Charley Harper's black and white line drawings of birds and other animals. Printed on white paper on one side only, each drawing is able to peel off and instantly stick up on the wall or anywhere one fancies. The back cover shows Harper's original illustrations in full colour.

One is never too old to colour.

Dimensions: 31 cm by 23 cm
Pages: 30 pp
Paperback with perforated pages

Number in stock: preorder required

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Living Invitingly - Unlocking the Bloom Within
$
10.00    
 
 
This warm and inviting book is written with simplicty and sincerity. It is a call to start with ourselves in our journey to bring out the best in others. You will enjoy reading and re-reading each page, finding gems in the words, and between the lines.

Join Lanch in living Invitingly.

Dimensions: 10.5 cm by 21 cm
Pages: 28 pp
Paperback

Number in stock: 8

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Gallery Ghost
$
35.90    
 
 
This book by Anna Nilsen  invites you to take a closer look at some great masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. The pages are split horizontally. As you flip through the bottom pages, you see the original paintings and the top pages show the same paintings with "ghostly" additions. Grab the magnifying glass - included inside - and look for all the changes.

Dimensions: 25 cm by 30 cm
Pages: 40 pp
Hardcover

Number in stock: 0, pre-order required

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Home - The Storytelling House
$
28.00    
 
 
This stoytelling house by Nina Sabnani is an unusual stand-up book which unfolds visual narratives like multiple windows on a computer screen! She brilliantly adapts a traditional storytelling form from India and creates an interactive book with a contemporary look and feel.Dimensions: Closed 22 cm by 36 cm; Open 88 cm by 36 cm
Hardcover

Number in stock: 1

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