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This is a really cute Christmas stocking stuffer size coloring book from artist Suzy Joyner. There are 27 pages of designs in the book with more than half having a bit of a woodland theme. These designs include woodland animals, leaves, and pine cones, etc. The animals mostly have human characteristics versus real animal poses. They are dressed in stocking caps, etc. They also have rather large, more human looking eyes.

I have Ms. Joyner’s two previous coloring books and have enjoyed them considerably. As soon as I saw she had a Christmas book, I bought it immediately. It is the perfect size to stick in a stocking and to carry in a purse.

The book is printed on one side of non-perforated white paper. The binding is glued rather than sewn and a good number of the designs merge into the binding. If you cut the pages out of the book, you will probably lose some non-essential parts of the design. I was not able to get the book to lay flat but I was able to press down and get the pages to open fairly well.

Both alcohol and water-based markers bleed through this paper. My gel pens leave a shadow of color on the reverse side of the page. My coloring pencils work well with the paper. I am planning on carrying this around with me with a small set of coloring pencils but if I decide to color a design with markers or pens, I will cut down a piece of chipboard to fit the book and keep it with it. I’ll use it under the page I am working on to keep ink from leaking onto the next page.