This Little book is ideal for the both the novice and the expert face painter. It contains some nice simple step by step instructions to create some excellent faces. Its only drawback is it's size, although small enough to fit into a little bag without any problems, it does seem a little bit too small to impress the kids when choosing a design for themselves. I suppose it would depend on what you wanted to acheive with this book. Personally I preferred "The Usbourne Book of FACE PAINTING" By C Caudron & C Childs. This book contained all the same faces and directions plus many more ideas, and was on a larger scale (Ideal to pass around the kids for them to choose a face from) It wasn't much more expensive either!!