Pocket Doodles for Young Artists by Bill Zimmerman

Pocket Doodles for Young Artists by Bill Zimmerman

Color Outside The Lines

Pocketdoodles for Young Artists inspires creativity by helping readers make their own comic strips, build skyscrapers, invent new machines, design delicious new recipes, and draw their very own masterpieces.

This fun addition to the best-selling Pocketdoodles series is sure to grab any child's imagination and carry it to new creative heights. Whether kids are waiting for the school bus or need something fun to do while visiting grandma, every moment becomes full of limitless possibilities.

Entertaining illustrations by Tom Bloom encourage creativity while adding fun and whimsy to any day. Using page after page of delightful doodling prompts written by Bill Zimmerman, young artists can turn an everyday dull moment into an amazing adventure.

Decorate this kimono. Design a house for your pet. Decorate her fingernails. What is he dreaming about? Draw your favorite dinosaur. Finish drawing these faces.

Bill Zimmerman has had a successful career as a journalist, prize-winning newspaper editor, and prolific book writer. Nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, Bill is a former journalist for Newsday and is the author of Doodles & Daydreams: Your Passport for Becoming an Escape Artist (Gibbs Smith, 2007) and Lunch Box Letters. He lives in New York City.

Tom Bloom's work includes illustrating two other books by Zimmerman-the best-selling Children's Letters to God and Make Beliefs-among many others. He draws regularly for the New York Times.

Bill Zimmerman is one of the most seasoned political media consultants in the country. In the 1980s, he had a number of successful clients, including Sen. Sen. Tim Wirth is a member of the United States Senate. Gov. Gary Hart Mayor Harold Washington, Toney Anaya, and Representatives.

Sam Gejdenson and Lane Evans. Bill changed his concentration to ballot initiatives in 1988. That year, he ran the campaign for California's Proposition 103, which succeeded despite $99 million in opposing spending. The initiative created the new statewide office of Insurance Commissioner and established the state's first rate regulation for automobile insurance.

Throughout the first 20 years of its implementation, it saved ratepayers more than $60 billion. Since then, Zimmerman & Markman has helped enact landmark legislation, including the first physician-assisted death statute in Oregon in 1994 and the first medicinal marijuana law in California in 1996. Bill managed 17 ballot proposals in ten states between 1996 and 2008, working with the Drug Policy Alliance, to alter various areas of our country's broken drug policies. Thirteen of the seventeen teams were victorious.

Bill led the victorious Proposition 36 campaign in California in 2000, which offered treatment instead of jail to many nonviolent marijuana possession offenders. Since then, 35,000 offenders have been diverted from prison each year, saving taxpayers millions of dollars each year. Bill was the driving force behind Proposition 63 in California, which imposed a 1% surtax on income over $1 million to fund mental health initiatives for the homeless and at-risk students. Bill worked as a strategic communications consultant for MoveOn.org from 2002 through 2008.

MoveOn.org's early anti-war advertising was designed by Zimmerman & Markman. Bill oversaw MoveOn.org's $23 million campaign to defeat George W. Bush in 2004, while Zimmerman & Markman generated practically all of the campaign's advertising. Bill Zimmerman is a Ph.D. holder. from the University of Chicago, where he also taught for a short time, as well as at Brooklyn College.

He was a member of the Vietnam Peace Campaign and Medical Help for Indochina as an activist in the early 1970s. He orchestrated the food airlift that ended the FBI siege at Wounded Knee, which was besieged by the American Indian Movement, in 1973. Troublemaker: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties, as well as two additional books and several magazine articles, are among his works. He also founded and served as Chairman of Medical Help for El Salvador (1981-1993), a humanitarian relief organization.