Where’s Your Creativity?

‘Do a little dance. Wriggle like a snake. Then drift like a cloud.’ There are many ideas in Where’s Your Creativity? to entice everybody – young and old – to find it. The book is definitely one to dip in and out of especially on a rainy day. Each set of pages has a particular theme around which to get creative e.g. through a physical activity, when you’re outside, when you’re eating. There’s a great hint about being creative when lying around in the sitting room with suggestions about pillows: ‘…the book beside you is a treasure map, the pillow is an island and your cup is a telescope.’

The words have an easy to read rhythm which gives a fun flow to the book. Marika Maijala’s illustrations are very bright, bold and cheery with some effective full colour pages. The drawings are quirkily done with a freedom about them-the movement adding to the call to ‘get creative.’

There are lots of little seeds of ideas in the book to inspire children to start to play and imagine. It’s a lovely beginning into imagining, thinking and exploring.