cover image Paint Yourself Wild!: An Animal Face-Painting Kit [With Six Paints and Paint Brush]

Paint Yourself Wild!: An Animal Face-Painting Kit [With Six Paints and Paint Brush]

Belinda Recio. Dutton Children's Books, $13.99 (37pp) ISBN 978-0-525-46289-7

Still stumped for a Halloween costume idea? Paint Yourself Wild!: An Animal Face-Painting Kit by Belinda Recio, photos by Lucy Gray, may be the answer. A spiral-bound book offers two spreads of simple instructions in digestible chunks before launching into 4-step demonstrations of how to transform into 16 different animals, including a mandrill, raccoon and tyrannosaurus rex. Six paints and a brush are bound into the back cover. (Sept.)