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.

“My parents bought me ‘Anti-Coloring’ books when I was about seven or eight years old.  I used them while my parents searched for a house here in Phoenix, Arizona.  Thirty years later, I discovered them in some boxes while cleaning out my attic.  It was incredible how much they influenced my creativity and artistic talent.  Now I have an Associate Arts degree from Scottsdale Community College and a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from Arizona State University.  I specialize in creative sculpture made from found objects, and I'm sure that your influence on my creativity had something to do with my choice of career.  I am thrilled that you still publish new versions of your great product, and I hope to be able to buy them for my nephew when he is old enough to start coloring.  Thank you so much for your influence.”
 
Paul Johnson, Phoenix, Arizona
 

“My name is Tracy. I am currently teaching a toddlers art class in Fresno California. I have found your book, Young at Art to be such a wonderful aid in planning my classes. I have always been frustrated at the parents who want to "help" their child and end up taking over their project. Your book has helped me communicate the importance of the child creating their own work. Because I am always challenged by parents who want their toddlers to create adult themed projects, I feel like there is a need for a class to help parents encourage creativity and lateral thinking with their toddlers. I'm hoping to create this class and teach it at the same mothers resource center that I have been teaching the toddler art class. (www.mommymattersonline.com) I was wondering if, along with other valuable information I have gathered, I could use some of the information from your book in this class, obviously with full credit, as well as recommend your books to the parents. I'm hoping that I can also have the store carry your books to make them easy for the parents of my students to find.”

If all parents could read your book, many good things would happen to children everywhere! (and you can quote me on that!).
Jessica Trask talking about Young at Art

“I just wanted to write to you and thank you for your anti-coloring books. I got mine back when I was about 8 or 10, and I just LOVED working in them. They were such a huge influence on me.... each page was a trigger to be flat-out creative.
Now, I am 36, working as a professional Illustrator/designer/professor, and am planning on getting my 8 year old daughter as many of your books as I can.
Anyways, I've been telling my wife for years about your books, and it's so good to see I can still get them.
Thanks again for creating such a wonderful series of books!
all the best”
mg ( mikegorman.com )

"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

" I especially appreciate the lesson ideas you gave in the book. I will be using them often; I already do units, so I love your layout. I'm looking forward to watching both of my boys blossom with these ideas. Thank you so much for this book; I will be telling everyone I know about it that has a baby or preschooler! I also look forward to diving into your other series as the boys get older.

Thanks again for sharing these wonderful ideas and for possibly helping me allow a couple more artists -in-the-making to have the freedom and support they deserve."
Sara Peaslee, Pueblo West, Colorado

“If only I had had your books 65 years ago.  I am just now starting watercolor classes and am so sorry I didn't have any encouragement when I was young to explore drawing and art.

“You have touched more lives in a positive way that most people ever do. “
June Cole

Dear Ms. Striker:
 
It is high time I thank you for sharing your creative self!  I am a Music Therapist  working in Southern California at a state mental hospital and have used your Anti Coloring materials forever!  I have so many small successes each time I use the patient "originals" as a vehicle toward socialization, story telling, reality and also inner peace and acceptance.
 
With much thanks and Blessings,
Lisa