Beautiful Illustrations set to Famous Christmas Poem printed on both sides of non-perforated paper

This great coloring book is filled with beautiful illustrations to go along with the famous Christmas poem. The pictures are heavily detailed and shaded, so coloring in larger swathes seems to work better than trying to get in and do a single detail at a time. What is kind of cool about this is that you can use a single color over the gray scale and it comes out looking like you spent some time adding detailed shading.

The designs are printed on both sides of the paper and some of the designs spread across two pages. All of the designs (including the two page spreads) stop before they reach the bound edge. The binding is glued rather than sewn. You can cut the pages out with a penknife if you wish to, but for me, I will consider this a color book that stays together. I was able to press hard on the spine and get the book to lay flat.

All of my markers and gel pens bleed-through on this paper. My coloring pencils work great (especially the soft core ones), so I will only be using pencils to finish this book.

I love the illustrations with the jolly Santa (especially the one with him upside down in the chimney.) It brings back the fun of the holiday I had as a child. I can imagine my husband and I coloring this book each year as we head into the holidays. I’m finding that by not being too detailed, the coloring is going very fast. I’m going to finish this one in color pencils but I may buy another one next year to experiment with pastels.