Make Your Mark Gallery: A Coloring Book-ish

Written and illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds
Candlewick Press
978-1-536209310
96 pp.
Ages 4-8
September 2020

From Peter H. Reynolds, the author-illustrator whose first book, The Dot (2003), inspired today's International Dot Day, comes a new book to foster and celebrate creativity. Make Your Mark Gallery, a sort of colouring book, inspires the creator in all of us to take up the pen or pencil or paint and be our own muses.

With these encouraging words,

Peter H. Reynolds gives young readers and artists the frames and nudges to get them creating. In a series of picture frames, starting squiggles and word suggestions like "Dragon-ish," the author-illustrator provides the platform for young artists to develop their own gallery, complete with artist information box on the back of each.

From Make Your Mark Gallery by Peter H. Reynolds

Even better, each page is edged with perforations so that any and every piece of art can be removed for curation on a wall, refrigerator or other gallery space. 

From Make Your Mark Gallery by Peter H. Reynolds

With a plethora of shapes and backgrounds, suggestions and creator space, Peter H. Reynolds has given children a blank canvas without giving them the void of a completely blank page and encourages them to start imagining a world of their own art. Dragons, clouds, snakes and fruit bowls optional.

From Make Your Mark Gallery by Peter H. Reynolds