This is a fun book that both young and old will enjoy. Rather than looking at the whole project, the author encourages breaking down the animals into smaller elements. The book is well thought-out and would be a great gift for that little artist (or big).

Timothy Young's illustrations show a lot of imagination and he teaches us how to vary the characteristics of a drawing to change it into another animal entirely. There is a section that shows how he incorporates the skeleton's bones and joints so that the pose looks more natural. I think this book would be best for older children and adults who don't need step by step instructions. It's more like a guide to help you draw a wider variety of animal characters and give them better expressions. Nice book with tons of drawing examples.

Children and adults can learn a lot from this book on drawing characters. I can't draw at all (children got that talent) but even I could follow along and it came out pretty good. If you want to draw bunnies, ducks, combination creatures, funny animals, imaginary animals this book takes you through it. This book will appeal to any child with its humor Pants or no Pants section and Boogers and Snot section. I recommend this book for age 7+ yr olds. Especially for the aspiring young cartoon artists.
I recieved this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

Though this book is directed at kids, I think someone of any age who wants to learn to draw illustrations could benefit from the information and examples here. Young discusses breaking down animals into the necessary elements to be recognizable (for ex, a bunny's ears or duck's bill and webbed feet) as well as creating your own imaginary animal characters. Deciding how stylized you want to make your characters is discussed and the author's drawing process is illustrated. Young also shows how to design a character with your intended characteristics (cute, slouchy, etc). Additional sketch poses are available on the author's website. This book would be a great jumping off point for a kid (or kid at heart) to get started with illustration.

Thank you to Timothy Young, Schiffer Publishing Ltd./Schiffer Kids and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. All comments are my own, unbiased opinion.