Daily Archives: November 10, 2015

Rather than discuss how this is like or different from the various movie, I will discuss only how I feel about it as an adult coloring book.

This is the perfect book for Disney fans who love the princesses. I grew up with the movies on the big screen and have watched them on television with both my children and grandchildren. It is wonderful to have the experience of an adult coloring book filled with iconic images that are so familiar. While the book has a few issues (which I will detail below), I am still very pleased with it overall and look forward to more from Disney in the future. There are many heroines in the book and I was able to find my favorites in a number off designs.

The book has a nice heavyweight cardboard cover (front and back) which makes for a great solid surface to color on. The designs are printed on both sides of the page and the paper is not perforated. The binding is sewn rather than glued, so removing it takes only a few snips with a small scissor on a few pages.

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This is a large collection of designs which have been curated by St. Martin’s Griffin (Meredith Mennitt.) It looks to be a variety of designs which have been licensed for use in this book and have a number of contributing artists some of which may have hand drawn their designs while others used computer programs to generate the designs. I am guessing this to be the case as there is not an artist or illustrator attribution on the book and the author listed on Amazon is an associate editor at St. Martin’s Griffin. If I am wrong, I wish that the artist attribution had been made in the book.

The designs are, for the most part, quite simple but still a good coloring experience for most adult colorists. There are some very simple designs that might be more appropriate for children but as it is a large book of 75 designs, sharing with the kids might work out great.

The designs are printed on one side of white medium weight perforated paper. The binding is glued rather than sewn and the designs stop well short of the perforated edge.

To some degree, all of my markers bled through or left shadows on the back of the pages (the best were the Staedler triplus fineliners.) My gel pens left a shadow on the back of the page, too. My coloring pencils went on easily and creamy. As the book is printed on one side only, it is simple to put a heavy weight piece of paper under the page you are working on to keep ink from getting through and damaging the page underneath. Or you can simply and easily remove the page as it is perforated.

I like the book for someone who wants fun and fast holiday coloring projects. It is a large book, so it should last through the season.