The Boys' Doodle Book: Amazing Picture to Complete and Create

In a nutshell: The Boys’ Doodle Book is a heavy duty art book of creative and thought-provoking pictures to complete. It has sparse, simple text questions that a five-and-a-half-year-old can sound out. Mostly it’s filled with partial pictures and a prompt. Examples include things like: A boy looking over the side of his mattress and the caption: What’s under the bed? A strong looking man in his skivvies and his dog and the prompt: Design their superhero costumes. A page with three fierce lions running as a pack and the question: What are the lions hunting? Followed by a page with the lions looking back in fear and the question: What is hunting the lions? It’s full of pages with vikings and castles, pirates and aliens, pyramids, tunnels, caves and stampedes. It skews “boy,” but without being too stereotypical. One of the first pages my five-year-old turned to had a frightened looking T-Rex that asked, “What scared him?” His answer: A skunk. Actually, a pack of skunks. Why didn’t I think of that? This book has kept him creatively occupied for hours in a calm, educational way, exhibiting model “we’re in public” behavior. Target audience is definitely the 5-7 demographic. The paper quality is great and the pictures are colorful and engaging with lots of white space. Nothing about this book impels one to color inside the lines. One reviewer on Amazon took hers to a copy shop and had them chop the binding off and make it spiral-bound so it lies completely flat. This might be worth it, though after a few days of use it seems to lay flat enough. Families can talk about: Why do you like dragons and vikings so much? Are there enough pages where you can draw dragons? When the boy is looking over the side of his bed and says, “Oh crumbs!” is he referring to pie? Is that why you drew a monster eating a giant piece of pie? Is this like a regular coloring book or better? There’s a list of thirty seven other Doodle books by this publisher… how many hours of mommy quiet time does that equate to? Technically the pages rip out, but you don’t need to know that do you?

Large thick book with simple ideas on each page that are easy to read. Your child can add a little or a lot to complete the page with their own drawings or writing as to whatever they want. To be even more creative, once the page is finished they could create their own story about the page.

Wow! The best $ spent! My 7 year old boy has had his head in this book for days now!!! It’s so so so much fun and so much better that some stupid screen :). Just buy it!

Fun doodle book for kiddos! Encourages them to be very creative, my son enjoys this good for long trips and the book is very sturdy and there’s lots of different pages in there!

Once I gift this to my grandson, just 6, I'll know if I need to update this to 5 stars, but I love how this book prompts creativity. It provides an idea/question, with some parts of the "scene" drawn, providing lots of room for any child's imagination to take hold.

I got this for a Christmas gift for my 8 year old. He really loves to draw and make stories, so I thought he might enjoy this doodle book. He really loves it! It spurs his imagination and lets him create all sorts of pictures. A fun gift!

Gave this as a gift to a 6 year old. I flipped through it before wrapping it and loved it. It had various drawing prompts... like complete a treasure map, doodle a new planet, complete the picture (monster with an empty plate - what is he eating). A great way to foster creativity and giving a gift that will end up in a toy box.

Bought this for my 6 year old nephew who likes to draw. He absolutely loved it. Was so excited with the different pages. It was a big win!

We absolutely love these books! I took this to Egypt for my 7 year old son. It keept him in the shade and occupied for hours. It was filled in cover to cover by the end of the holiday. It keeps interest because it asks you to add your own ideas to the picture that has been started. "What has the robber got in his sack", "Complete the alien city","Who else has come to the monster party?", "What is making the king laugh?". It is a big book with good quality paper, if you haven't seen any of this series you won't be dissapointed. I have been known to fill in a couple of pages myself!

I absolutely love this book it’s SO unique and creative and fun. Love that it requires a child’s or adults imagination to come up with characters and images to draw . I very much enjoy spending time with my child drawing and colouring with this book. Purchased 2 and I plan to buy more , makes for an excellent gift for children .

Bought as a gift, and the boys just loved it. Keeps them quiet for hours. Full of ideas for doodles on each page, which is great and stimulates their imagination.

I love this book for my 9 year old. Doodling in this book is his downtime and it is a much needed break from schoolwork/screen time. There are many pages and the cover shines (looks important and expensive). Great price!

Ideas to stimulate my Reception class. The children love them. Independent writing has improved for both boys and girls. I will buy similar books.