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Pretty coloring book based on The Nutcracker with lots of wall-paper style pages – printed both sides of the page

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Iiiireader

The Nutcracker: A Coloring Book

Adapted by Alexandre Dumas from the original story by E.T.A. Hoffman

Rating: 4 of 5

As I have found with other coloring books in this series, the designs are from a team of designers as well as many open-stock images as well. The designs are from Shutterstock, Jill Tytherleigh, Lydia Coventry and Sophia O’Connor.

The book is based on a story version of The Nutcracker and not on the ballet. I like that for a change of pace. The other coloring books I have found have been based on the ballet. The images are lovely but I found that there was a serious use of wall-paper designs and the use of open-stock images were easy to recognize.

The 96 pages of designs are detailed and many contain intricate and small areas to color. You will need small nib pens/markers and sharp pencils for those areas.

Many of the designs spread across two pages with integral portions of the design being lost into the binding area. In my copy of the book, the pages line up fairly well.

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