Jack Richard Foster

Zippy's Club invites kids to be part of the anti-bullying team. It teaches them to overcome bullying with kindness and to celebrate one another's differences. The book includes a section from a nationally certified counselor to help initiate conversations with kids about bullying, as well as a lette...

Nothing about having your picture taken is fun—or is it? Brooke runs away so that she won’t have to have her picture taken. She meets Nessie, a friendly sea creature, who also hates having her picture taken. Nessie knows she can’t take care of Brooke because little girls don’t like to eat seaweed or...

Has your child ever wandered off—or do you worry that they will?'The Day My Parents Got Lost' is a fun story that gives parents and teachers the opportunity to talk with children about the importance of staying together when you go places, especially amusement parks, so that nobody gets lost.I remem...

What would you wish for if you could have anything you wanted?Tommy and Suzie find a wishing well and like children do, they begin making wishes. Imagine their surprise when their wishes start to come true! Are spacesuits the new dress code at school? What’s Tommy going to do with three heads? You’v...

Zippy's Big Difference is a story about how Zippy the zebra came to appreciate that which makes him different from others. It deals with the emotional struggles facing children with disabilities and tackles some of the tough spiritual questions they have.

Many of California's cities evolved haphazardly, the natural but disorderly result of an early settlement expanding over time. Foster City, on the other hand, is an example of a community that was carefully envisioned and built according to a master plan. The city was conceived in the 1950s when rea...

Written by Jack Foster, a creative director for various advertising agencies with more than 40 years experience, How to Get Ideas (over 90,000 copies sold and translated into 15 languages) is a fun, accessible, and practical guide that takes the mystery and confusion out of developing new ideas.

Having spent 40 years in advertising and coming up with new ideas every day, the author shows readers seven ways to condition the mind to produce ideas and four subsequent steps for creating ideas on command. 12 line drawings.