Flip & Draw

By Galison/Mudpuppy
Price $8.99
Age 4+

Playing with Flip & Draw unleashes creativity, but it also seriously tickles the funny bone. Each Flip & Draw book contains 10 mix & match characters to color in, plus 5 blank sheets on which to draw your own. Coloring in the pages is a blast, but the fun really kicks up a notch once the flipping begins. Mix & match means each page consists of 3 panels, so rather than turning the entire page, you can just turn the part of the drawing you would like to see change. Each given Flip & Draw contains similar types of drawings, so that any combination of upper, lower, and middle panels work well together. For example, Superhero Flip & Draw contains a variety of far-out Superheroes, and flipping just the upper, lower, or middle parts of a page creates some clever, kooky combinations. By creating odd, unexpected, and often humorous pairings, new ideas become triggered, even new ways of looking at things. More importantly, it's a whole lot of fun. More than a dozen different Flip & Draws (Superheroes, Princesses, Monsters, Robots, Forest Animals, . . .) are currently available.