What if doodling, the timeless art of stream-of-consciousness drawing in the margins of important papers (or on whatever happens to be lying around) while some speaker drones on incessantly, were encouraged as a stepping stone to artistic development, rather than denounced as a useless hobby of ADD sufferers? It’s a great question, but unfortunately anyone looking to formally discover an answer will have to get in line behind Taro Gomi, the illustrious Japanese children’s author whose book Doodle All Year (Chronicle Books, 2008) not only promotes doodling as an art form, but provides hundreds of charmingly child-like, barely-there sketches with which to prime the pump.
Gomi, who won our hearts with the unequivocally titled Everyone Poops and garnered widespread acclaim for his Scribbles, Squiggles and Doodles series, gives specific directions at times (“draw a winter rainbow,”; “this horse needs a rider,” for example) but more generally uses the transitions of seasons as a template for children (or grownups, for that matter) to let their hearts/minds/markers run free. Whether one is seeking to encourage youthful creativity, or simply looking for a great book to help energetic youngsters survive the family road trip, one would be hard-pressed to find a more useful tool than this one. You'll be thrilled to hear that Chronicle Books is giving away a free copy of Doodle All Year to one lucky reader. To qualify, visit Chronicle Books, then come back here to tell us which book you would most love to add to your library. Tell us in a second post if you subscribe to Wishing Willow, since our subscribers receive an extra entry in the contest. To post without a Google account, just click “anonymous.” Be sure to also leave your email address. The winner will be chosen randomly. Contest ends 1/23/09.We have a winner! Congratulations kellyache who said, "Aaacckkk!! I've been wanting to get the Scribbles colouring books forever! For me, Logo by M. Evamy would be a fantastic addition to my design library." Congrats!
173 comments:
I would love to get Handmade Hellos: Fresh Greeting Card Projects from First-Rate Crafters
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I would love the Fertility Facts book since we are TTC again!
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The Alchemist's Cat: Book One of the Deptford Histories
Nora
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I like the Button Nose book for kids,thanks
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Here's mine: Revolutions in Sound
Warner Bros. Records: The First Fifty Years.
Revolutions in Sound
Warner Bros. Records: The First Fifty Years.
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Christina - xristya@rock.com - I'd love to add Manufractured, from Chronicle Books, to my library. I'm very curious about how artists and craftspeople are taking manufactured objects and adding their own artwork to them in order to create a new work!
Christina - xristya@rock.com - I'm a proud subscriber to Wishing Willow and am so happy to see it in my email box again!
I would love to read Swimming With Strangers
I am a subscriber.
Pom Pom Pals looks fun for my children.
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I am a subscriber.
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Hi!
I'd love the "Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects" book!
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I subscribe.
I would love to read the Top Chef Cookbook
I could definitely use the Mom-o-Matic: Makes Being a Mom a Snap book because it sounds hilarious!
Thanks!
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I'm a subscriber!
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I so want the book KILLER PIES: 50 award winning pie recipes from across North America
I am a subscriber
I would like to add "Taxi Driver Wisdom" to my collection.
thanks for another great giveaway!
I have gmail, but am a subscriber through yahoo!
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I think School Years would be a wonderful gift for my brother-in-laws child. Please enter me in your contest. Thanks. Charlotte
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Great Giveaway! I would love to add to my collection: Squeaky Green: The Method Guide to Detoxing Your Home
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I would LUV to have "Kelly Slater: For the Love" for my collection.
Doodle All Year is a great giveaway, and will be a great win for anyone. Thanks for hosting this....
I am a loyal subscriber! Thanks for the second chance to win.
Their Stencil book looks good
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Aaacckkk!! I've been wanting to get the Scribbles colouring books forever! For me, Logo by M. Evamy would be a fantastic addition to my design library. Thanks.
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I would like 52 Things to Try Once in Your Life—Revised Edition!
I would love the The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market Cookbook, yum!
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I'm a subscriber too, thanks!
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I would love to get "Italian Cities and Landscapes: An Architect's Sketchbook"!!
p.s.
I'm a subscriber:)
I'd pick the Button Nose kid's book.
I like the top chef cookbook.
I would love to add Little Hoot to our library.
chrissoolee@yahoo.com
First-Rate Crafters would be awesoem to own
I would love to add the Sylvia Long's Mother Goose book. Great stories! Thank you!
I'm a subscriber.
Crochet to Go Deck: 25 Chic and Easy Patterns sounds nice! Thanks for entering me.
unforgetable_dreamer_always AT hotmail DOT com
I'm an email subscriber thanks!
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I would love Amy Butler's Little Stitches for Little Ones: 20 Keepsake Sewing Projects for Baby and More and Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts! Amigurumi!
Both look like really neat books.
thefamilyswan[at]yahoo[dot]com
I'm a subscriber
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i'd like Vunce Upon a Time for my grandson
I would love to give The Official High Times Pot Smoker's Handbook to a good friend (and Berkeley resident).
urchiken at gmail dot com
I'd like The Art of Bolt!
I've been longing for the The Softies Kit: Instructions and Tools for Creating 15 Plush Pals for a long time.
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My kids would like Pom Pom Pals, thanks.
Revolutions in Sound Warner Bros. Records: The First Fifty Years
I would like Lethal Vintage -
A Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mystery.
-Terra H.
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I'd like to have the The Bride's Instruction Manual. Thanks for the giveaway!
I like the Button Nose book for kids.
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P.S. I'm a subscriber
I'd love to get my son the Little Snowman Finger Puppet book. thanks
adams006 at hotmail dot com
i like the button nose book.
I'd like several: Cakes for Kids, The Toddler Cafe, the Animal Alphabet flashcards (to use as wall decoration) and I LOVE Taro Gomi's books - all of them!
I want the Top Chef Cookbook.
I'm a subscriber, too!
I need the Mom-o-Matic book. jjdragonfly [at] gmail [dot]com
I subscribe via RSS!
Dracula's Heir: An Interactive Mystery
Quirk Books
My daughters would enjoy Please Don't Eat Me!
'An Egg Is Quiet' sounds great.
ashlomb at yahoo dot com
subscribed via yahoo
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Swimming With Strangers
Love the Handmade Hellos :)
ktgonyea at gmail.com
We would love to read The Kid Who Named Pluto. Thanks for the giveaway.
"Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea" by Alice Waters and DAvid Littschwager - in the new releases section - sounds like an amazing book. Thanks for the chance! alicedemske at hotmail.com
I would like to get ParisSmarts: Take a trip.
Thanks for a great giveaway.
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thank you for the great contest
enter me please
yummy yummy "Killer Pies"
seesessel (at) gmail (dot) com
thank you for the great contest
enter me please
yummy yummy "Killer Pies"
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Since I love to cook I would love to add "Big Night In" cookbook.
mdhohn@msn.com
I like the top chef cookbook
shopannies@yahoo.com
The Giant Play and Learn Book looks like fun!
Pom-Pom Pals: Book and Craft Kit • Instructions for 14 Easy-to-Make Fuzzy Friends
Love doodle books like these - I'm a doodler always and enjoy others doodles also.
Chronicle has so many titles I like, very hard to pick. I think I would really like to add How To Cook Everything by Mark Bittman - I love his podcasts and his show on PBS.
I'd like to own Listography Journal.
I would love to get "Wanderlust"
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I subscribe.
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Besides "Doodle All Year" which sounds way fun, I like "The Printmaking Bible" because it is an interest of mine, to print and create new designs...
Thanks for the inspiring giveaway!
pumpkinlady430@yahoo.com
Revolutions in Sound sounds good.
Little Hoot looks like a very cute book!
chefskate at aol dot com
Revolutions in Sound sounds like something I would enjoy. Thanks!
Oooh, would love to add Pressure Cooking for Everyone
By Rick Rodgers, Arlene Ward, Kathryn Russell to my library!
Warmly,
Tracey C.
munchiema at yahoo DOT com
Manufractured looks like it would be interesting. I'd love to see the photographs of the art.
I subscribe.
I would like all of those books, they look great! "Squiggles: A Really Giant Drawing and Painting Book" catches my eye.
I subscribe
Oooh, so hard to decide! I'd probably get Super #1 Robot: Japanese Robot Toys, 1972-1982 for my husband!
i subscribe
i would choose little hoot for my daughter - she is crazy for owls right now!
The Killer Pies sounds wonderful. My kids would love the pom poms. Cool giveaway. I love Taro Gomi's work.
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the Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects" book
I would love to have I Will Never Forget You
Frida Kahlo and Nickolas Muray
I have been doing business with Blackbird Letterpress she has an amazing shop at Etsy. My intrest in print making has been teaked I would choose The Printmaking Bible.
jamaisew[at]gmail.com
I am a subscriber :))
Warner Brothers Records: The First 50 Years is something I would love to have in my book collection
jason@allworldautomotive.com
Top Chef cookbook.
Whamo-60 Years inside the Fun Factory looks cool.
So many great Chronicle Books!!
I found the Get Your Sparkle On! Jewelry Kit. I like that it comes with supplies and would definitely use it and learn a lot:)
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I am a subscriber:)
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Deep Dark Chocolate: Decadent Recipes for the Serious Chocolate Lover. With 60 chocolate recipes, this book looks like something my kitchen bookshelf could definitely use!
I'm a subscriber!
I'd love the Squeaky Clean book about detoxifying your home.
Im also a subscriber!
The Paper Crafts Kit would be a great book to have! Please enter me in your drawing. Many thanks, Cindi
jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com
I am a subscriber! Thanks, Cindi
jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com
I'd like Swimming with Strangers!
I'd like The Alchemist's Cat: Book One
Oh geez. Put me in a bookshop and say, "pick one". I can't do it in real life and I can't do it at Chronicle Books.
However, for the sake of an entry, I have found the one that I would like to get FIRST. I love Architecture so the More Mobile: Portable Architecture for Today looks so very interesting. This is a relax and indulge in architecture book. It's a good thing.
Of course I'm a subscriber silly!
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I would love to get Creatures and Critters Origami Craft Pad. Really great giveaway - thank you!!
I aammm subscribed. Don't know why I didn't do this sooner. Der!
Thanks again!
I would love to read couture interiors. We are remodiling:)
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Dante's Inferno, the illustrated version, looks very interesting.
The Printmaking Bible
con5459(at)gmail(dot)com
I would love to have The Theater of Insects.
I'd like to have Sienna's Scrapbook. Thanks for the giveaway!
I subscribed in a reader.
Delicious
The Art and Life of Wayne Thiebaud
clarkmurdock@yahoo.com
Duck Rabbit would be my choice
rosans4@comcast.net
I'm a subscriber
rosans4@comcast.net
I like sienna's scrapbook.
my kid would love it.
Please, enter me, great prize!!! I would love to win this.
legab67156 (at) gmail (dot) com
I would love to add Ivy and Bean Bound to Be Bad to my kid's library collection! Thanks!
sherri419 at gmail dot com
I want so many books from there! Both Leven Betts Pattern Recognition and Earth Architecture look really interesting. Minka and House also look really cool.
I need Dim Sum: A Pocket Guide!
I would get Ivy and Bean Bound to Be Bad.
What great products here. I like the Scrible coloring book and any cat books is great.
I'd love the "Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday. Thanks for the chance to win.
erma.hurtt@sbcglobal.net
I would like the Lace Knitting to Go: 25 Lovely Laces to Use for Edgings, Embellishments, and More book.
paryjeja at sbcglobal dot net
Anna Getty's Easy Green Organic is the book I would pick. My family is trying to eat and be more organic. This would be a good start. thanks amyinkamloops@gmail.com
I really like Chronicle Books a lot. And I've been coveting Angaza Afrika: African Art Now.
Rex Ray, Art & Design looks very inspiring to me.
mightymorphinmama [at] gmail [dot] com
I am also a subscriber, thanks!
i love Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts: Woolly Embroidery.
elkesten at yahoo dot com
The Swimming with Strangers book looks interesting
Any of the Bird Songs series books. My parents have one and my daughter always likes looking at it when we visit.
And I'm a subscriber too!
I would love the book Adorn
New Jewelry
Laurence King Publishing
I would love to have the please don't eat me kids book
I would add Swimming With Strangers.
I would like The Art of Bolt.
legab67156 (at) gmail (dot) com
Top Chef Cookbook would be my pick
gkstratos@yahoo.com
Top Chef: The Cookbook!
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The Art of Bolt looks like a good one! thanks, justicecw@hotmail.com
killer pies would be nice
The Art of Bolt
theyyyguy@yahoo.com
The Art of Bolt. I loved the movie :o)
I would like Dracula's Heir: An Interactive Mystery.
I would love to add "Delicious
The Art and Life of Wayne Thiebaud" to my art classroom.
art of the bolt
Difficult choice!!! I choose Julius! by Paul Frank Alphabet Flash Cards, for my kids!
cal_rubies@yahoo.es
I'm a suscriber!
cal_rubies@yahoo.es
Thanks!!!!!
Button Nose book for kids
cdrury@gmail.com
button nose books for kids would be great
Little Hoot
froggypartyof2@aol.com
Another book I liked was Big Rabbit's Bad Mood By Ramona Bădescu.
When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat would truly be loved by my scattin' ds! : )))
Thanks so much for this fabulous give~away! : )))
leahita[at]gmail[dot]com
I also subscribe! : )))
leahita[at]gmail[dot]com
my daughter would love pom pom pals! thanks:)
id love The Handy Household Helper: An Organizer for Receipts, Warranties, & Odds and Ends
im a subscriber :)
Forgot to add that I'm a subscriber!
I would like to read the book B Is for Baseball to my grandchildren.
I would like to add Saveur Cooks Authentic Italian. garrettsambo@aol.com
Windflower A Novel
By Nick Bantock
and Edoardo Ponti
I would like the Little Snowman Finger Puppet book.
donna444444@yahoo.com
I am a subscriber.
donna444444@yahoo.com
I've seen this book! Looks cool!
I'd pick: Change the World for
Ten Bucks
Charlotte in Paris
jasonncaryn at yahoo dot com
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