Category Archives: Adult Color Books

Fairies in Wonderland is a lovely book filled with charming and whimsical fairies in four different parts of their journey, including beautiful gardens, night woodland scenes, and also part of their journey through the ocean. There is a riddle that runs throughout the book for anyone who cares for those activities. I’m not really very interested in that part of the book. There are also four detachable postcards in the back of the book. I love to color postcards, so this is a huge bonus for me.

The artwork is unusual and beautiful. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is white background for daytime and the second part is with black background for night scenes. I think it is marvelous to have both options in one book.

I will provide more detail on what I found in this coloring book, but here is a quick overview:

94 pages of Fairy and Fairyland Designs
Printed on both sides of the non-perforated page
Many designs spread across two pages
Many designs merge into the binding
Binding is sewn
Alcohol-based markers bleed through the page
Water-based markers, for the most part, do not bleed through
India ink pens and Gel pens do not bleed through and do not leave shadows on back of page
Coloring pencils work very well with this paper

The designs in this coloring book are printed on both sides of heavyweight, non-perforated pages. The designs do merge into the binding area. There were 64 pages of designs spread across two pages while there were only 30 pages of single page designs. In my book, the alignment of the pages was quite good. The binding is sewn rather than glued, so you can remove several whole pages at a time without loss of design by snipping a few threads. I was able to get the book to lay flat by breaking the spine slightly by push down very hard to fully open the book.

The cover of the book is lovely with gold foil touches. The front and back cover fold out which coloring opportunities on the inside (white background at the front cover and black background at the back.) There are also four detachable postcards printed on a good heavyweight card stock. The postcards are pre-set up for address and stamp areas.

I will list the coloring medium I used to test this book in the comments section below. Here is what I found out.

All alcohol-based markers bleed through rapidly. Water-based markers were a different story. All of the brands I tested did not bleed through except that Staedler triplus fineliners were a mixed results. I was so surprised by this, I checked many more of the colors. It seems that the bright pinks and purples had a tiny bit of bleed through while the other colors did not. It might be my particular set is more wet but I highly recommend you check your markers before coloring.

India ink pens and gel pens did not bleed through or leave color shadows on the back of the page. Coloring pencils worked really well with soft lead pencils going on thick and blending well. The hard lead pencils did not leave indents on the back of the page.