Scribbles by Taro Gomi (2006, Paperback)

This is a great book to ignite your child's imagination. It starts a drawing or an idea, and asks your child to take the idea and drawing from there, generating and creating even more diverse, funny, imaginative drawings from a few simple lines or pictures. It has generated many discussions of why and how my child chose to do the picture that she did based upon what she sees. It reminds me of drawings we did as kids when one person would draw half of a picture on one side of a sheet of paper (the other side was left blank) who gives the paper to a partner with only tiny lines showing where the picture left off. The partner then completes the picture, not knowing what the other side looks like but only knows the subject, for example, a picture of a farm animal or half of a space alien. It really generates lots of ideas and creativity and you're child will love completing each page. You'll enjoy seeing what they've created. My daughter was given this as a gift and I've bought several since for others because it was so well received and actually used by my daughter. It's not your standard coloring book. It's very groovy.