Pocket Doodles for Kids by Bill Zimmerman

Pocket Doodles for Kids by Bill Zimmerman

Pocketdoodles for Kids is the perfect pocket-sized guide for drawing, doodling, coloring, and thinking. Best-selling author Bill Zimmerman invites doodlers of all ages to not only draw but to be inspired to stretch their imaginations and take their minds on a mini-vacation.

Take a moment from the busy day to be playful with activities and ideas that entertain the creative muse. Doodle your way to a new hotrod, a new outfit, or a different body, or draw a picture of your favorite place or fantasize about your favorite pastime.

Inside are interactive picture and word prompts that will encourage youngsters (and adults) to write, doodle, draw and color on the pages. For example, you'll find storyline doodle pages on which you are given picture elements and instructions on how to complete the drawings. One storyline, for example, says: Design a pair of cool sunglasses that will set you apart from the crowd.

The book's small size (4x6 inches) makes it perfect for stowing in a pocket or book bag, so kids can enjoy the activities and doodling prompts wherever they go. With 272 pages, there's always a new idea for drawing and dreaming!

Doodling prompts include:

• What is your birthday wish?
• Draw someone for the clown to throw the pie at.
• What's the weather like?
• Design your own money.
• Decorate this flying rug.
• Draw a beautiful necklace for her to wear.

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.