title: Creatures and Characters: Drawing Amazing Monsters, Aliens, and Other Weird Things!
author: Tim Young
description: <span>Timothy Young has had a long career doing all kinds of interesting and fun stuff. He's been an animator, puppet maker, toy designer, sculptor, art director and graphic designer. His career highlights include being a head model-maker forPee-Wee's Playhouse, designing and building Muppets for Jim Henson Productions and sculpting the first Simpsons toys.</span><br /><span>Tim is the author/illustrator of 8 picture books including<b><i>Do Not Open The Box</i></b>,<b><i>The Angry Little Puffin</i></b>and the highly acclaimed<b><i>I Hate Picture Books!.</i></b>His latest books are<b><i>I'm Going To Outer Space!</i></b>, and the how-to-draw book,<b>Creatures and Characters: Drawing Amazing Monsters, Aliens and Other Weird Things</b>. He has also illustrated for other authors.</span><br /><span>His favorite part of being an author is traveling to schools and talking to kids about his books. If you'd like to find out how to have him visit your school, his website is easy to find by searching his name.</span>
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  Favorites by
  
  
  BRUCE COVILLE
  
  
  THE ENCHANTED FILES
  
  
  _Cursed_
  
  
  _Hatched_
  
  
  _Trolled_
  
  
  _Aliens Ate My Homework_
  
  
  _Always October_
  
  
  _The Dragonslayers_
  
  
  _The Ghost in the Third Row_
  
  
  _Goblins in the Castle_
  
  
  _I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X_
  
  
  _Into the Land of the Unicorns_
  
  
  _I Was a Sixth Grade Alien_
  
  
  _Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher_
  
  
  _The Monsters of Morley Manor_
  
  
  _The Monster’s Ring_
  
  
  _My Teacher Is an Alien_
  
  
  _The Prince of Butterflies_
  
  
  AND DOZENS MORE!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  Text copyright © 2017 by Bruce Coville
  
  
  Cover art copyright © 2017 by Andrew Bannecker
  
  
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