To the Ends of the Earth and Back Again: The Longest Coloring Book in the World
By: Good Wives and Warriors
Rating: 5 of 5
I’m both a fan of this series (which up to now, has been illustrated by Sarah Yoon) and of the artist team Good Wives and Warriors who are the illustrators of this third book in the series.
In this book, the continuous page format continues and the trip is across the earth (and back) rather than under the sea or up to the moon.
While the format is familiar the artwork is straight up Good Wives and Warriors. The level of detail is racheted up and style is a little more elegant than flat out cartoon-like and that is what makes this book my favorite in the series. My husband and I share the other books in the series but this one is all for me.
In this book, the background is pre-colored in a white to increasingly deeper blue as you head further into the book. 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.
