I Cannot Draw a Horse

By Charise Mericle Harper

Book Overview

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 Herv? 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 145494594X
• ISBN13: 9781454945949
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Union Square Kids
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.2" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 3 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3