Bøger af Jonathan Jay Brandstater

Jonathan's slightly sassy squirrels: A spot the differences book is sixty four pages long. The content includes thirty pairs of similar illustrations, followed by a corresponding solution page. There are five differences between each pair. The pictures show cartoon squirrels engaged in various activities, such as sailing, playing golf and lifting weights. Boys and girls between the ages of seven and eleven years, may find the whimsical characters amusing. They may also enjoy the challenge of "spotting the differences," especially since this sort of book is popular among children.

Jonathan's Pragmatic Pigs is a humorous book consisting of a series of thirty drawings created in a cartoon style. Each drawing shows pigs engaged in various activities such as playing golf, racing cars and watering a garden. In addition, the illustrations are accompanied by humorous captions in the form of word play such as puns and alliteration. Children between the ages of seven and eleven may find the characters and humor entertaining and amusing.

Pop flies, Mom flies and Hmm, bugs is a humor book arranged in the style of a comic book. The illustrations are photographs of original characters made from polymer clay and are accompanied by captions. Most of the character names are plays on words, especially puns.

Jonathan's Dastardly Dinosaurs is a Spot the differences book. This book is fifty-seven pages long and includes twenty-seven pairs of similar cartoon drawings. Each pair shows dinosaurs engaged in various activities such as dining, playing football and dancing. In addition, all cartoons are accompanied by humorous captions featuring word play such as puns and alliteration. Separate pages with solutions are included after each pair. These pages show additional drawings with the differences circled. Spot the difference books are popular among children, especially those between the ages of seven and eleven. This particular book may appeal to boys and girls in this age range. The topic of dinosaurs seems to appeal to boys, especially.

The Book of Mice Book 3 includes original cartoon characters. The format of this book includes an introduction, a history of these characters, three sample songs and a series of humorous illustrations.

Jonathan's alpha-numeric doodles is a sort of coloring book filled with letters and numbers drawn by hand, using a tablet and drawing program. The illustrations are drawn using a variety of styles, including negative space, 3D, simple doodling and "ZenTangle (TM)". Negative space may refer to drawing an object according to what is "not there,", such as the use of shadow and other contrast. Drawing in 3D refers to drawing an object in such a way as to make it seem to pop off the page. ZenTangle (TM) is a meditative form of drawing involving the use of simple patterns to create beautiful artwork. Doodling may also be used to achieve similar ends. In addition, doodling may be done for pure enjoyment and fun.This book allows the reader to color in the illustrations, as well as to fill the pages with drawings and doodles, such making it his or her own book.

This edition of the Character Acting Cats is a coloring book, featuring twenty four cartoon felines engaging in various activities, such as collecting rocks, building a house and driving a car. The names of the cats sound alike and are included with each drawing. The book can pass as a sort of comic book, with captions based on word play such as puns and alliteration. Also, The Character Acting Cats may appeal to children between the ages of seven and ten.

Jonathan's Loopy Lizards consists of a series of thirty illustrations showing lizards drawn in the cartoon style. Each drawing is accompanied by a humorous caption based on word play, such as puns and alliteration. The characters are original and are figments of the author's imagination. Children, especially boys between the ages of seven and twelve, may appreciate the humor.

Clay critters features a series of photographs. The book is in a comic book format. The photographs themselves depict animal and fantasy characters made mostly from Play doh (TM), as well as clay and other modeling materials. Each photograph is accompanied by a brief caption. At the end of book, there is a description of how the reader can make his or her own modeling material from commonly found materials, specifically, salt, flour, water, cooking oil, creme of tartar and food coloring. The tone of the book is humorous, in keeping with many comic books of this nature.

Jonathan's Character acting cats is a Spot the differences book. It is 54 pages long and consists of a series of illustrations showing cats engaged in various poses and activities. There are twenty six cats in all. Each is shown on three illustrations. The first two pictures in a set have five differences between them. The third picture-the solution-is shown on the succeeding page with the differences circled. The spot the differences format is popular with children, especially between the ages of seven and eleven. Jonathan's Character Acting Cats includes whimsical characters. The humor may appeal to children in this age range as well.

Jonathan's Clay Bears is a humor book consisting of a series of fifty-one photographs accompanied by captions. Each photograph shows a bear character made from plasticine (non-hardening oil-based clay) engaged in some activity, such as making cakes, sailing a boat or flying a kite. Captions are based on word play such as puns and alliteration. Children, especially boys between the ages of seven and eleven, may find the characters appealing and the word play humor amusing.

Charlie the Clay Boy is a book about a clay character who starts out in the form of a brick with "googly" eyes. He changes into a variety of forms before assuming the shape of a human. Charlie then engages in a variety of activities, specifically those related to music and sports. The book consists of over forty photographs, accompanied by captions. The format is similar to a comic book without the thought or speech bubbles.

More Hands and Feats of Clay is a sequel to the book "Hands and Feats of Clay." The book consists of a series of photographs depicting characters made from polymer clay, baker's clay and other modeling materials. Each picture also includes a humorous caption. In a sense, this book is actually a comic book, despite the serious looking cover.

The content of Jonathan's Character Acting Cats is a series of photographs accompanied by captions. Each photograph shows a feline character made from plasticine (oil based clay) and engaged in various activities such as reading poetry, driving a car or building a house. The captions consist of humorous names for the cats, as well as descriptions of what they are doing. The humor is based on word play such as puns and alliteration. Children between the ages of seven and eleven may find the characters amusing and entertaining. Cat lovers may also appreciated this book.

A humorous cartoon-style book featuring twenty four cats engaging in various human trades or behaviors. Drawings by the author.

Jonathan's Book of Affirmations consists of a series of words and sentences in the form of affirmations. Affirmations are considered to be positive, uplifting expressions stated in the present tense. Most of the affirmations in this book are accompanied by simple drawings. Children between the ages of ten and eighteen may find the affirmations and drawings inspiring.

Jonathan's Funny Funky Fish: A Spot the differences book includes fourteen pairs of similar illustrations, along with accompanying pages of solutions. The reader is encouraged to spot five differences between two pictures. Solutions are shown as pictures with differences circled in pencil. All characters shown in this book are original creations. Pictures are drawn in the style of cartoons. The tone of the book is light and humorous. The names of the characters are based on word play such as puns and alliteration. Besides being challenging, spot the differences books can be entertaining and amusing to read. Jonathan's Funny Funky Fish was designed to be all three: challenging, entertaining and amusing.

This version of Clay Mice is an updated version of a book published in 2015. The characters are mice created from clay and similar modeling materials. The book is twenty-nine pages long and created in the form of a comic book, complete with thought bubbles and speech bubbles, along with narration boxes. The genre of Clay Mice is humor. There is a considerable amount of word play in the form of puns, alliteration and rhyme. The illustrations are photographs of the characters engaged in various activities, such as sailing, bathing and ice skating. Children, especially those between the ages of seven and eleven, may find the content amusing and entertaining.

The Character Acting Cats is a collection of twenty-four feline characters engaged in various activities, such as driving a car, playing video games and gazing through a telescope. All the illustrations are original drawings created by the author and are accompanied by captions featuring the character's names. The humor of these captions is based on word play such as puns and alliteration. This book may be appropriate to cat lovers (ailurophiles).

Little Grey is an original cartoon character based on the Eastern Grey Squirrel. The book includes a series of twenty-two hand-drawn illustrations showing Little Grey engaged in various activities, such as playing golf, riding a skateboard or juggling acorns. Each illustration is accompanied by a caption. Many of the captions are humorous and based on word play such as puns and alliteration. Children between the ages of six and ten may find the characters appealing and the captions amusing.

The title Claynines is a play on words. The characters in this book are dogs made from polymer clay, as well as modeling dough. The book is 30 pages long and consists of a series of photographs. Each picture shows a character engaged in a particular activity. The photographs might be considered sight gags, especially since each caption includes a play on words.

The Funky Funny Fish Coloring Book may accompany a similar book called Funny Funky Fish or stand on its own. Most of the characters in the coloring book are also in Funny Funky Fish but there are additional characters as well. The Funky Funny Fish Coloring Book includes a series of 32 drawings of original characters. Most are combinations of fish and other animals but a few are combinations of fish with objects such as tools, the moon and a peanut. All characters are the products of the author's imagination. In addition, he has created all the drawings, as well as the image on the front cover. The genre of this book besides being a coloring book, is humor and features word play, especially puns.

Mostly mice Book 2 is a coloring book. It is thirty-seven pages long and includes thirty-three drawings for coloring. Each page shows a cartoon mouse or mice engaged in some activity. Most of the illustrations are accompanied by humorous captions. All characters are original creations. Children between the ages of seven and eleven may find the pictures and humor appealing.

Dino Doings is a sort of comic book featuring cartoon type illustrations. Each illustration shows a character or character engaged in some activity such as climbing, dancing or playing football. The dinosaur characters in Dino Doings are made from plastic, clay or pipe cleaners covered with aluminum foil. In addition, the plastic dinosaur was made using 3D printing. The genre of the book is humor, with references to word play such as puns and alliteration.

Little Grey follows the adventures of a squirrel made from polymer clay. Grey squirrels are common to some areas of the United States and are the basis for this character. The book includes a series of photographs with captions. The story is about a day in Little Grey's life. This is no ordinary day. After awakening, freshening up and eating breakfast, Little Grey drives to a rocket and heads for another world. There he meets a variety of unusual creatures before returning home. The tone of the story is humorous. Children between the ages of seven and eleven may find the photographs entertaining.

Catbots is a book in comic book format featuring photographs and humorous captions. The characters depicted in Catbots were created using a 3D printer. The photographs show these four characters engaged in various activities, especially sports such as golf, football and soccer.

Jonathan's Comic Coloring Book is a series of original hand drawn cartoon characters arranged in a coloring book format. The book is 44 pages long.

Jonathan's Dinosaur Department is a coloring book featuring twenty seven illustrations accompanied by captions. Each illustration shows one or more cartoon dinosaurs engaged in various activities, such as sailing, diving and dancing. The theme of the book is humor so the captions include a considerable amount of word play, such as alliteration and puns. Children between the ages of three and ten may find the pictures amusing, entertaining and fun to color.

Jonathan's musical instrument collection is 154 pages long, including the introduction and reference section. The content is a series of captioned photographs showing musical instruments the author has made. Folk instruments are often made by hand and may be simple in design and construction. This is in contrast to instruments mass produced in factories. Also, some folk instruments are typical of specific cultures. Examples of these instruments are featured in this book: didgeridoos from Australia, shakuhachis from Japan, koncovkas from Slovakia, penny whistles from Ireland. This book is designed to inspire the reader to make his or own instruments, rather than being an instruction book.

Mostly Mice: A Coloring Book is 24 pages long. The content is a series of twenty drawings of cartoon mice. The theme is a historical timeline from the time of dinosaurs to a probable future. To a great degree, this book is a satire of history, replacing people from various eras with mice. In addition, the book includes word play, especially puns and alliteration. The pictures themselves are black and white drawings made using Artrage (TM), a graphics program.