To the Moon: The Tallest Coloring Book in the World
By: Sarah Yoon
Rating: 5 of 5
I recently purchased this artist’s newly released book To the Ocean Deep which is made similarly to this book but with obvious differences in subject. My husband wanted to take turns coloring in it with me so we decided to alternate pages within the book. That left one of us without a fun cartoon style color book to every other week. I then found Ms. Yoon’s first coloring book To the Moon and decided to pick it up and now we plan to alternate each of the books. It is a fun way to tackle this large a project and it is keeping our interest high as we look at what the other has done the week before.
In this book, the background is pre-colored in a white to light blue to deeper blue as you head further into space. The actual designs are black lines on white. I found that the pages are a little to maneuver unless you have a really big area in which you color. I found that folding the pages the opposite direction from they way they came also helped keep the fold-out manageable.
The design concept is a long tower that reaches from a house on Earth up through the atmosphere into space and finally ends at the Moon. There is even a small portion of the design that goes underground on Earth as well. There are towers and castles and trees and all sorts of creatures and machinery as you make your way up to the moon. As with my other book by this artist, the drawings remind me of old Mad magazine cartoons I read as a child. It is fun to color and discover all the zany bits that are hidden at first glance.
This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing my various coloring medium on the paper.
15 page continuous fold-out cartoon Earth to space to Moon theme designs
Printed on one side of the page
Paper is heavyweight, lightly smooth, filled background, non-perforated. The last page (at the Moon) is glued to the cardboard backing while the other 14 pages fold out.
Cover (front and back) is a lightweight cardboard.
Alcohol-based markers seep through the paper
Water-based markers, India ink artist pens and gel pens did not seep through the paper
Colored pencils worked well with this paper. I was able to get good color, layer, and blend well with both oil and wax based pencils.