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I Cannot Draw a Horse
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Picture books are fun for many reasons. They take us to far off places but also help us look inside ourselves. They're the perfect form of entertainment, but what happens if your picture book has limitations? The cat in Charise Mericle Harper's I Cannot Draw a Horse really wants a horse, but the quick-draw book, which, if you haven't guessed from the title, can't draw a horse! The book has a few tricks up its sleeve, and with some art lessons to be taught along the way, both cat and reader will be left entertained.
Award-winning author and illustrator Charise Mericle Harper delivers a fantastically funny picture book about doing the impossible: drawing a horse. A children’s metafiction book about creativity and imaginative play centered around an art lesson, Harper cleverly shows readers how drawings are a collection of recognizable shapes put together to create something new.
Elementary-aged readers will delight as the simple “nothing shape” becomes a cat, a squirrel, a beaver, a bunny, a dog, a turt...