70 Cute and Fun Cat designs printed on both sides of page in small format

Cats: 70 designs to help you de-stress (Coloring for Mindfulness)

By: Hamlyn

Rating: 4 of 5

This is a cute and funny set of 70 cat designs. The designs are all fairly intricate with many small details. It will take very thin pencil or pen nibs to get into all of the nooks and crannies of these designs.

The format of this is smaller than most coloring books at approximately 8 x 8 inches. The binding is a type of rubbery glue that is located at the top of the book. It makes getting to all sides of the design much easier and now that I have experienced it, I wish more coloring books had top binding (as do many art books). My only concern is that if I remove a page, it may break the binding at that point and take more than the one page off. The back of the book is a heavy cardboard that keeps the book stable, especially if you are working in-hand instead of on a hard surface.

The designs are printed on both sides of the page which is a big disappointment for me because, although the paper weight is good, all of my gel pens and markers bleed through. If I want to color each design in the book, I would have to use my colored pencils. If I really wanted to use markers or pens, I would have to sacrifice the back side picture and remove the picture from the book or put a waste page below my work area to keep other pages from being ruined.

Having said all of that, for cat lovers, this is a fantastic set of designs. I just wish the publisher had printed on only one side of the page and made the book larger so parts of the designs were not so teeny tiny.

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