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How to Draw: Baby Animals

In simple steps

Part of How to Draw

Paperback
8-1/2"W x 11-1/2"H | 13 oz | 24 per carton
On sale May 19, 2026 | 32 Pages | 9781800923720
Age 10 and up

Learn to draw 28 playful, baby animals using this simple step-by-step book, written by best-selling author Polly Pinder!

New in the bestselling How to Draw series, with over 1.5million books sold!


Artist Polly Pinder teaches you to transform simple shapes into realistic and super-cute baby animals, including a fuzzy duckling, a curious kitten, a foal, a lamb and various chicks.

There are 28 different baby animals to complete, each project starting with a few basic outlines and progressing into a finished drawing; a final coloured version shows you how to develop your work further. This is an easy drawing book perfect for beginners, kids and budding artists.

Inside you’ll find:
  • A short introduction by Polly,
  • 28 uncomplicated drawings, broken down into 4–6 text-free steps,
  • 28 inspiring colored finishes, to be achieved in any medium!

You’ll be amazed by how straightforward it is to create adorable and snuggly baby animals from just a few quick sketches!
Polly Pinder studied graphics and has written and illustrated a number of books on a variety of other subjects including cake decoration and growing herbs, papermaking and paper crafts. Her illustrations in Muck and Magic were commended when that book won the 1993 Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize. She has also designed bed linen and wallpapers, and the graphics for a wallpaper book based on newly-discovered eighteenth-century wallpapers.
Polly now works from her pottery studio creating beautiful, small-batch candle holders and large food platters.
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About

Learn to draw 28 playful, baby animals using this simple step-by-step book, written by best-selling author Polly Pinder!

New in the bestselling How to Draw series, with over 1.5million books sold!


Artist Polly Pinder teaches you to transform simple shapes into realistic and super-cute baby animals, including a fuzzy duckling, a curious kitten, a foal, a lamb and various chicks.

There are 28 different baby animals to complete, each project starting with a few basic outlines and progressing into a finished drawing; a final coloured version shows you how to develop your work further. This is an easy drawing book perfect for beginners, kids and budding artists.

Inside you’ll find:
  • A short introduction by Polly,
  • 28 uncomplicated drawings, broken down into 4–6 text-free steps,
  • 28 inspiring colored finishes, to be achieved in any medium!

You’ll be amazed by how straightforward it is to create adorable and snuggly baby animals from just a few quick sketches!

Creators

Polly Pinder studied graphics and has written and illustrated a number of books on a variety of other subjects including cake decoration and growing herbs, papermaking and paper crafts. Her illustrations in Muck and Magic were commended when that book won the 1993 Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize. She has also designed bed linen and wallpapers, and the graphics for a wallpaper book based on newly-discovered eighteenth-century wallpapers.
Polly now works from her pottery studio creating beautiful, small-batch candle holders and large food platters.
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