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Please Touch
Please Touch is a book designed for parents who want to stimulate their child’s creative development through movement, music, art and play.
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Quotes about Susan’s Books!
 Young at Art®:
The first and only
comprehensive book for the general audience about the nature, value and impact of art on very young (preschool-aged) children.
"I love your book...It's very reader friendly. I love all the songs about art...the section on
books about art for children is an excellent resource."
Eldon Katter
Past President
National Art Education Association
“I have recently read both your books, Young at Art and Please Touch and I have
been so inspired and motivated by them. Many thanks.”
Corina Koch MacLeod
“I am a child therapist working in East
Harlem in an Out Patient Child Psychiatry Dept. Just wanted to let you know that I have used your anti-coloring books as a
diagnostic tool for the past many, many years. In fact it is one of the first things that I show new social workers, and medical
students because it is a wonderful way for them to break the ice with new child patients and a way for children to express themselves
. Now that there is the internet and easy access to E-mail I just wanted to let you know of this wonderful use for your books. I
think they should be standard textbooks in the training of child therapists!”
Sharon Gordon MS.Ed., LCSW
Dear Susan,
Thank you so much for writing the book "Young at Art" that I discovered on a
bookstand and has been on my bedside table since. I am a new mother, my daughter will be two just after Christmas, and we have
had over a year with your book to inspire activities. It's wonderful. I grew up being told by many adults that art was worthless. My
teachers told me that my art was no good. It was incredibly discouraging. Now I see my daughter Clara reach for pencils, crayons,
paintbrushes, marker will intense entusaism and concentration. She lets me know when she's finished and the final picture fills her
face with a glow of satisfaction each time. Inspired by you, I led a "green day" at
Clara's playgroup recently. We had cupcakes with green sprinkles, green playdough to mould, a green craft pack for each child filled
with different shades of green paper, leaves, feathers, sticky contact paper, drinking straws, ribbon, wool, balloons, streamers to
float through the air... it was so much fun.
Thanks again, and keep up the marvellous work.
Bridie Briggs
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This book provides an easy-to-use format, organized by age and by each of the four essential activities – music, movement, art, and play – is accompanied by
more than 170 black and white drawings. The book includes:
- Special projects in each of the four areas that can be shared by the entire family
- Hints on how to use the
everyday world as a creative learning experience
- Advice on how to pick a preschool
- Suggestions for fostering creative, noncompetitive friendships between
preschoolers and their friends and siblings
- Advice on toys
- Chants, songs and games
- Anecdotes from Susan Striker’s own experience as a mother and as a teacher.
With a rich resource section listing children’s museums and reviewing the best of the children’s books about the arts and imaginative thinking, and
including a detailed, illustrated chart depicting stage-by-stage development in drawing, painting, clay, imaginative play, movement, music, and block building. Please Touch will help
parents teach their children how to rely on their own ability to solve problems, to develop a sense of fantasy, and above all, to think for themselves. This is a
book that is sure to unleash every child’s hidden potential.
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Young at Art® 
Young at Art® is the first and only comprehensive book for the general audience about the nature, value and impact of art on very young children
. Directed toward parents and educators of one to five year olds, Susan Striker explains why children’s art is not a frill, but the very foundation
upon which all later fundamental skills are built. She drives home the idea that encouraging children’s artistic growth will have beneficial effects on
all other aspects of their emotional and intellectual development.
At the core of this practical guide is the understanding that art is an important tool in teaching young children crucial concepts related to self
-expression, reading, and writing. As opposed to more structured exercises, such as coloring in dittos and underlining pictures in
workbooks, Striker stresses that scribbling and free-drawing experiments are the most important art activities a child can engage in; they better
prepare children to read independently as they grow.
Young at Art® provides descriptions for age-appropriate art activities and tips for carrying them out safely, and it helps parents recognize what
a child’s artwork should look like at each stage of development. With Young at Art®, parents will develop realistic expectations of their child’s
work, learn how to speak to their children about their arts, and facilitate skills well beyond their own perceived lack of artistic talent and creativity.
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