Ed Emberley's Crazy Mixed-Up Face Game

by Ed Emberley

A game for young children allows them to create funny, composite faces by copying parts of faces from any of a dozen models. You've probably seen those split-page picture books that invite kids to line up unmatching tops and bottoms to create unheard-of creatures, faces, landscapes, or whatever. Emberley makes a more complicated game of this pastime by asking groups of "players" to fold a paper in four, then take turns drawing the first, second, third, or fourth quarter of a face.

What each player draws is determined not by his or her own whim but by the number he or she draws: thus the first player might draw number seven, turn to the "first player's pages" in the book, copy the designated seventh pate from a total of twelve step-by-step drawings of head tops (rabbit ears, a Viking hat, etc), then pass the paper on to player number two. . . and so on.

29 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1981

About the author

American artist and illustrator, best known for children's picture books.