New this season in Barron's growing list of " Creativity Activity Books " for kids is " The Art Creativity Book, ," filled with fun things for boys and girls to do. All titles in the series feature--

• Games, puzzles, stencils, sticker sheets, and an illustrated gatefold page for sticker decorating


• Special pull-out art paper and art projects to complete


• Pages for coloring


• Fun-to-answer quizzes
  Illustrations on virtually every page include 40 pages in color. When kids open " The Art Creativity Book " they're inspired to make a colorful collage with art paper, find the difference between an art masterpiece and a forgery, learn to draw a human face, change the expression on Mona Lisa's face, color Van Gogh's "Sunflowers, " and more.

Ruth Thomson is a prize-winning children's author, who specialises in writing art, literacy and history books. She has written several children's titles for the National Gallery in London, activity packs for the Tate and a book about war posters for the Imperial War Museum, as well as educational books on the art of portraits, landscapes, still life and other topics for major educational publishers. She has also written a children's biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Ruth divides her time between East Sussex and France and enjoys travelling, walking and stone carving.