Xtreme Art: Draw Mini Manga!

Strange things happen when kids see a book on drawing manga: They'll walk right over to that book and pick it up, mesmerized, as if it's the only one in the store. Manga is all-powerful. Unleash that power with Xtreme Art: Draw Mini-Manga! This fifth installment in the best-selling Xtreme Art series offers those obsessed kids a fun-filled tutorial on drawing the cute, chunky mini-people of manga. Young artists progress quickly from basic tips on drawing faces and bodies to sketching pages and pages of exciting characters—sweet and fuzzy mischief-makers, silly sidekicks, and dozens more. Each kooky manga character is shown the Chris Hart way, broken down into four simple steps with new lines highlighted, so it's easy to build the final drawing. All hail the power of manga!

• More than 100,000 Xtreme Art books sold!

• Xtreme Art: Draw Manga Chibi! has sold more than 12,000 copies in just six months.

• Kids are drawn to manga like moths to a flame

Strange things happen when kids see a book on drawing manga: They'll walk right over to that book and pick it up, mesmerized, as if it's the only one in the store. Manga is all-powerful. Unleash that power with Xtreme Art: Draw Mini-Manga! This fifth installment in the bestselling Xtreme Art series offers those obsessed kids a fun-filled tutorial on drawing the cute, chunky mini-people of manga. Young artists progress quickly from basic tips on drawing faces and bodies to sketching pages and pages of exciting characters sweet and fuzzy mischief-makers, silly sidekicks, and dozens more. Each kooky manga character is shown the Chris Hart way, broken down into four simple steps with new lines highlighted, so it's easy to build the final drawing. All hail the power of manga!

Children's Literature

For all the young Manga enthusiasts out there, here is another how-to book to help them create their own cartoon drawings. Directions are clear and simple, and there are plenty of visual examples to help young artists get the details just right. Manga fans tend to be rather obsessed with these cute little characters, which are based on Japanese children's cartoons, and Hart provides many examples for creating endless expressions, hairstyles, and situations. This book should give Manga fans hours of fun. It is part of the "Extreme Art" series.

Christopher Hart is the world's best-selling author of cartoon and drawing titles, with more than two million books sold. He lives in Connecticut with his family.