I Cannot Draw a Horse (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781454945949)

Award-winning author and illustrator Charise Mericle Harper delivers a fantastically funny picture book about doing the impossible: drawing a horse. A children's metafiction book about creativity and imaginative play centered around an art lesson, Harper cleverly shows readers how drawings are a collection of recognizable shapes put together to create something new.

Elementary-aged readers will delight as the simple "nothing shape" becomes a cat, a squirrel, a beaver, a bunny, a dog, a turtle, and a bear. But what about a horse? The cat really wants a horse. But . . . the book cannot draw a horse. Can the quick-draw book appease the horse-obsessed cat with an impressive collection of horse-y alternatives (all created from the same "nothing shape")? Or will the cat finally get a horse?

Harper's quirky, contemporary voice and kid-friendly comic illustration style is on full display in this hilarious picture book with art education appeal. I Cannot Draw a Horse invites young readers into the narrative fun, as do such modern classics as Press Here by Hervé Tullet, Never Let a Unicorn Scribble by Diane Alber and The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt.

Hardcover picture book; 48 pages; 10 x 10 in.

Author: Charise Mericle Harper
ISBN-10: 145494594X
ISBN-13: 9781454945949
Publisher: Union Square Kids
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 10.10h x 10.20w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 1.6
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 522633 / I Cannot Draw a Horse


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 07/25/2022
School Library Journal 08/01/2022 pg. 77
Booklist 09/01/2022 pg. 80
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2022 pg. 60
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2022 - Superior,Well Above Average