Daily Archives: June 15, 2018

“The Princess Bride” is a movie that my family and I watch over and over again. We’ve bought it repeatedly as it came out in different formats from VHS to Blu-Ray. The quotes from this movie have become part of the lexicon of our everday speech. “Have fun storming the Castle!” is a way of merely saying have a good trip. Being mostly dead merely means that we’re having a rough day (though this past year, it really meant I was almost dead when I fell quite ill with pneumonia last November.

Where the first book in this series seemed to focus on scenes in the movie, this coloring book looks at the quotes that we, who watch this show incessantly, recognize in a heartbeat.

The characters are also recognizable – even Buttercup fares better this time around than last (not perfect for at least a little more feminine looking than before.)

The coloring book has a detachable dustcover. The outside of the smooth cover is black on white line drawings with gold metallic accents. The inside of it has repeated symbols from the movie in a wild jumble of coloring opportunity. While it is very smooth, I still found that I could color on both sides of it. The inside attached cover is the same design with a black with golden roses and swords in a repeat pattern.

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