Beautiful Tropical designs coloring book printed both sides of page

The designs in this book are very tropical in nature. There are exotic birds, animals, fish, and flora. I am very impressed by the beauty of these hand-drawn designs and look forward to many hours of coloring enjoyment with the book. This book calls for good eyesight and a steady hand as many of the designs include small and intricate details

The designs are printed on both sides of heavyweight white paper that is not perforated. The book is well made with a lovely fold out cover where both the outer and inner parts of the cover can be colored, too. I counted more than 60 designs many of which are two page designs. The designs merge into the binding and some of the two page designs do not line up perfectly when I flatten the book. The binding is sewn rather than glued, so you can remove the pages with a few snips of thread every few pages. I would not attempt to cut pages out of this book as you will certainly cut away some portions of the designs on both the front and back of the page. For most of the two page designs, I can treat them as single page designs if I choose to do so as their shared elements are so insignificant.

My markers had a mixed result when it came to coloring in this book. The only ones that consistently did not leak through were my Staedler triplus fineliners. My Tombows dual end brush did not leak when I used the brush end but did with the marker end. All other markers both water and alcohol-based leaked through. My gel pens did not leak through but needed extra drying time. My coloring pencils all worked well. I would test my markers before using them in this book to be sure that a specific color does not leak through and ruin the design on the back on the page.

I was provided a free sample of this coloring book for test and review purposes.