Step-By-Step: Dress Up Face Painting

Smithmark Publishing, Petra Boase. Smithmark Publishers, $9.98 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-8317-3077-2

Just in time for Halloween, Petra Boase's Face Painting and Dressing Up for Kids, featuring face painting by Bettina Graham, offers 300 color photographs and easy-to-follow directions for face painting and costume-making, for fun transformations into angels, devils and terrestrial types too (Smithmark, $9.98 ages 8-12 ISBN 0-8317-3077-3 Oct.).

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