Here
is the latest in the “I Heart” series of delightful
6” square coloring books. As a child I was fascinated
by the picture of the narwhal in my alphabet book, a creature
that looked like something out of either the prehistoric past
or a fantasy novel. If you too are charmed by “the unicorn
of the sea” then here is a whole book dedicated to it
for your coloring pleasure.
Fans
of the series will be pleased to hear that everything is the
same as usual as regards layout and quality etc. For anybody
new to these books they are all the size mentioned, with 128
pages of bright, smooth white paper of good quality illustrated
with cute and simple but imaginative drawings of whatever
subject the book covers. Drawings are obviously done by hand
so no pixels, and lines are black and of medium width. Turn
over each page and you will see a pattern made of small images
in faint gray that can be left as a decoration or colored
in as you wish. Some pictures do go slightly into the spine
and there are no perforations, but you can remove them carefully
with a knife and frame them. They would look good arranged
in groups as a cute, naïve addition to a wall. There
is nothing on the back of any of them but the gray repeat
patterns but as this is paper rather than card, I suggest
putting a sheet of paper underneath if you want to use watercolor
pens (not permanent markers like Sharpies). Subjects in here
show the narwhals in all types of situations from having a
horn threaded with donuts to being covered with jewels, inside
a snow globe, surrounded by sea creatures, as repeat wallpaper,
posing as a snowman, eating an ice cream and many more. It
is an ideal size to put in a bag and take travelling or to
waiting rooms and no picture will take too long to color unless
you want it to. This is a popular series that I hope will
run and run…more please!
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