Coloring Book with many breeds of Dogs designs printed on one side of perforated page

This is a coloring books that has many different breeds of dogs represented (look to the bottom of this review for a full listing.) The dogs are beautiful line drawings that will give me a great opportunity to use my blending skills to give them my preferred color of fur. Each design show the dog(s) in a great setting that makes coloring each page more fun for me. The back of each design has information about the breed of dog represented and their history as well as a bit about their temperament. I like that the artist took advantage of the blank space on the back to give information I don’t mind if my inks leak through into this area as I will still be able to read it if I choose to do so.

The designs are printed on one side of a medium weight perforated paper. The back is printed with the breed/information mentioned above. The binding is glued rather than sewn, but not a problem as you can remove the page at the perforation. Only one of the designs (Brady-bunch style design of Pugs) merges into the binding and none of the essential design is lost to the binding. The rest stop well clear of it and can be removed without loss of the design.

All of my markers bleed through this paper to some degree. My gel pens leave a shadow of color on the backside of the page but don’t need any extra drying time. My coloring pencils do well on this and, of course, there isn’t any issue about leak-through with those. As back of the page is blank, I will simply use chipboard (my favorite as I can reuse it many times) or heavyweight paper under the page I am working on to keep ink from seeping through and ruining the rest of the book.

Here are the breeds represented in the book:

Akita Inu and Shiba Inu, Alaskan Malamute and Siberian Husky, American Pitbull Terrier, Australian Shepherd, Basset Hound, Bichon Frise, Boston Terrier, Boxer, Chihuahua, Chow Chow, Dachshund, Dalmatian, English Bulldog, French Bulldog, German Shepherd, Golden Retriever, Great Dane, Greyhound, Irish Wolfhound, Labrador Retriever, Papillon, Pomeranian, Pug, Rottweiler, Rough Collie, Samoyed, Scottish Terrier, Standard Poodle, Welsh Corgi, and Yorkshire Terrier.

I received a free copy of this coloring book for test and review purposes.