Every mistake is an opportunity to make something beautiful! Barney Saltzberg's interactive journal for young artists 4 to 8 is meant to be personalized—drawn in, painted on, smudged, or otherwise artistically wrecked—and it is filled with folded, crumpled, die-cut, and lift-the-flap pages. Challenging the artist's sense of play, a friendly green alligator offers some prompts: Decorate a smudge, play with splats and spills, and complete a poem that was ripped in half.