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Elise Gravel, Author
Imprint: Laurence King Publishing
Publication date: August 27, 2026
Category: Colouring & painting activity books
ISBN: 9781510232389
From doodles to masterpieces, anything goes in this celebration of artistic fun!
Celebrated author and illustrator Elise Gravel invites all budding creatives to use humorous story-starters and picture prompts to create their own masterpieces. Whether it’s sketching an all-original zany monster, creating a comic strip or scripting a conversation between two insects, kids of all ages will love letting their creative flag fly. All it takes is a pencil!
Elise’s unique sense of humour shines through in prompts that reinforce it’s okay not to be perfect – the important part is having fun!
Elise Gravel is a writer and illustrator from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She studied graphic design before becoming an illustrator and has published in both English and in French. In 2012, she won a Governor General’s Award for Children’s Illustration for her book La clé à molette. Elise has written more than thirty books and her work has been translated into over 12 languages. She is married with two daughters.