The Coloring Book for Big Girls [Paperback]

Sudie Rakusin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 1998

The Coloring Book for Big Girls, by Sudie Rakusin, is a delightful adult book filled with 25 detailed pen and ink drawings. Each drawing has a descriptive caption.

The messages in the drawings and captions suggest a love of nature and animals. All creatures are instilled with a deeply spiritual sense of purpose and value. The women, depicted in every size, shape and color, are beautiful, strong and joyful. The absence of any sort of species hierarchy inspires awareness and understanding. Learn the lessons of surrender and magic from the wind or fire, from a poppy or willow. Learn the teachings of the leopard, wolf, swan and dog. Savor the importance of dance and music to the soul.

These drawings can be used as a guided meditation. The experience of coloring in this book takes you away from the chaos of the outer world into a place of centered calm.

The Coloring Book for Big Girls makes a wonderful gift for yourself and for others to celebrate all rites of passage.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Sudie Rakusin is an artist and an ecofeminist. Her love and concern for the Earth and Her creatures influences all her choices and permeates her work. Her art has been widely reproduced in newspapers, magazines and calendars, and can be found in such books as The Once and Future Goddess by Elinor Gadon, Seasons of the Witch by Patricia Monaghan, and the Wickedary by Mary Daly. She has self-published color notecards of her paintings, and two blank journals containing her pen-and-ink drawings.

Sudie Rakusin works in oils, pen-and-ink, pencil and she is now sculpting in papier-mache. She lives in the woods outside Hillsborough, North Caolina, with her dog companions and her ever expanding gardens.

Product Details

• Paperback: 28 pages
• Publisher: Winged Willow Press; 1 edition (June 15, 1998)
• ISBN-10: 0966480503
• ISBN-13: 978-0966480504
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,083,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice if you're into the Goddess space, May 28, 2002

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M. J. Walters "dargelos" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Coloring Book for Big Girls (Paperback)

This isn't a coloring book for everyone. If you're at all offended by pagan-type images, don't bother with it. There are amazon and goddess images all the way through. A number of the images are also nude or semi-nude. If none of that bothers you, if in fact you're a pagan or pagan-friendly, or you're open to mythic images of women, then you might well enjoy this. The compositions range from simple to complex, and there is a nice diversity in the size, shape and racial characteristics of the figures.

The paper will take crayon, colored pencils, or markers with ease. I don't think I'd try painting in this (or any other) coloring book because the pages are just not heavy enough to resist some serious warping.

I have to say, I think it's a bit thin over-all. A little text would have been a welcome addition or even a space for you to create your own story about the image. But that's a small quibble. On the whole, I'm enjoying this book more than the others I bought at the same time.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, Poor Paper, October 4, 2005

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Willow Catkin (Tacoma, WA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Coloring Book for Big Girls (Paperback)

The pictures in this book are wonderful and fun to color, but the paper used is too thin and anything but crayon or colored pencil shows right through to the next page ruining the next picture! I wish they had spent the extra money on extra thick paper.

19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, April 15, 2005

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crazy4books (Midwest) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Coloring Book for Big Girls (Paperback)

I was really disappointed with this coloring book. The pictures are pretty new-age cheesy and there is so much black print in the pictures that there is very little left to color. It's like a collection of photo-copies of sci-fi/new age prints. Not very appealing, even to a Goddess-loving gal like myself.