Fantastic Selection of coloring fun variety of artists and styles printed on both sides of heavyweight spiral bound paper

I found this coloring book listed in the Children Section of Amazon. While I think an older child would enjoy the book, I also think it is a book that is perfect for the adult coloring audience. The artists involved with this project, Cindy Wilde, Felicity French, and Hannah Davies, are all individuals whose work graces some of my favorite adult books. I suggest highly that the publisher/artists get this listed in the adult section as well. There is a wonderful variety of design style and subject, including sea creatures, masks, birds, bicycles, reptiles, architecture and much, much more.

The concept behind the book is that it is one that you can use to color with a friend. The pages alternate between two vertical and then two horizontal designs. That way, you can sit beside or across from your friend while coloring. Each page has an insert title with a line to put the name of the individual who colored the page. I guess you can be nice and share your book but if you are like me, you probably won’t. I will probably buy a second copy that family and friends and share between them but as these are some of my favorite designs this one is mine.

The larger format book (approximately 12 x 10 inches) designs are printed on both sides of the page. The pages are perforated. While most of the designs are printed on white, there are a number that are printed on black background. I like the occasional black as it is a good time to use my pastels and neon tones to get a huge pop of color. The book is spiral bound and all designs stop well before so you can remove pages by cutting them out if you wish. The book lays fairly flat because of the type of binding used.

The paper is really well done. Only my Sharpies, Copic, and Prismacolor (alcohol-based) markers bled through. I would not suggest these for this book as the designs are on both sides. None of my water-based markers had any ink seep through (Stabilo 88, Staedler triplus fineliners, Tombows dual end (both brush and marker points), and Pentel.) My gel pens did not leak and my coloring pencils laid down really well on the paper. I plan to use all three types that did not leak with this book.

There are just so many fun pages to color the only hard part will be deciding which is first. I may just have to start at the beginning title page (robots which I used as my test page) and go straight through. This would be a perfect coloring book for the appropriate age Mommy and Me style coloring but for me, it is a Me and Me book.