Hidden Nature: A Coloring Escape for Grown-Ups
By: Toc de Groc
Rating: 5 of 5
This is a super cute book with lots of fun and pretty coloring designs by the designers of Toc De Groc. There are beautiful flowers and gardens throughout the book. There are also a lot of animals in the book (cats, birds, elephants, owls, peacock, and more) but the focus is on a cute little kitty who appears in the most unusual of places it is almost a treasure hunt for where is the kitty. There are a few pages where the cat doesn’t appear. While there are some issues with the way the book has been published, I really like this book and will buy a second copy, if need be, in order to color all the pages I would like to do with the types of materials I choose.
The book is printed on both sides of non-perforated heavyweight and really good grade white paper. There are 100 pages of coloring designs with most of the designs fitting on one page. There are 12 designs that span across two pages and those designs do merge into the binding somewhat. About half of these designs line up really well on my copy while the others are slightly misaligned. The binding is glued rather than sewn, so removing these few pages without losing some of the design will be difficult. I will be keeping my designs in the book as the two page designs are just so pretty, I don’t want to ruin them.
The book has a removable dustcover and you can color on the outside of it. The publisher missed some opportunities by not printing a design on the inside of the dustcover and by making the actual cover too glossy to color on.