Three dollars for a book that will keep a six year old drawing for a month. Step by step instructions turn a stick figure into a skateboarder, a tennis player, a weightlifter, and then into whatever they invent next once they realize the trick is just angles.

It is pocket sized on purpose. Usborne Minis are built for a coat pocket, a glove box, a waiting room, a goodie bag. This is the thing you buy without thinking about it and then find, weeks later, has produced a hundred drawings taped to a fridge.

Also on the shelf here: two more Usborne Minis, Travel Pencil & Paper Games and Doodling Dinosaurs.