Customer Reviews

Coral Reef Coloring Book (Dover Nature Coloring Book)

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This is a book which is accurate in its drawings, with the official names for many, if not all, the different species. I am an adult, a frustrated artist with no talent whatsoever for drawing. I have really enjoyed coloring these pictures with colored pencils. There is a lot of small detail work in some of the pictures, which I think would be difficult with crayons, but of course, all the detail doesn't need to be observed. I have loved this book and have colored 2/3 of the pictures. It is my favorite of the half dozen coloring books I bought. There are completed colored pictures of about a quarter of the drawings, which I appreciate very much, as it gives inspiration to those of us who would like to experiment with shading, etc.

Adults and kids who enjoy art and/or nature will find the books in this series enjoyable. You can simply enjoy putting colors together to create your own world of creatures or flowers (depending upon which book you order) or you can do the research and create a realistic world of color and beauty complete with learning the different names for the fish and under water foliage or the flowers or the butterflies etc in other books. Whether used as a learning tool or just for creative expression adults and children alike enjoy these books. I keep a selection of these types of coloring books around around the house with a very large selection of gel pens and markers for my neices and nephews and they come over frequently to visit while we all sit down to color, nothing else, Though I wouldn't sit to color a regular coloring book, these and the geometric or mandrel design coloring books are more on an adult level and I enjoy sitting with them as we chat about what is happening in their lives as we color. I believe they open up more because the coloring alows them to avoid the intensity of one-on-one coversations about emotional things in their lives. Open a door, sit and color with your pre-teen or teen and just be available to talk. You may be surprised at what doors you are opening, beyond the creativity of a child and yourself.

I just purchased these Dover COloring Books for my mother and she loves them. The detail is out of this world and the variety of colors you can use are only limited by your inagination. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

I never would've guessed my friend and neighbor, who drives a bulldozer for a living, would be the type to sit down with a coloring book but his colorings are beautiful and not juvenile at all. And he says, which also never occurred to me, that coloring is very relaxing. I never saw it that way as a kid but looking back, I guess coloring was actually relaxing. I'm very impressed with his, what I'm gonna call, artwork. He's somewhat picky about what he wants to color. The more detail in a pic to color, the better. And he's been very satisfied with the books I picked out for his birthday. He loves that the art of each of the pics to color is so detailed. He has bragged about my choices and so has anyone else who he's bragged to that I picked them out. I've never seen such beauty in a coloring book myself. I bought four of them and they all deserve the same praise so I guess I'll just copy and paste this review on each of the products.

One of my favorite coloring books. Clean lines, clear shapes unlike some of the Dover coloring books in which leaves or grasses are sometimes indicated by little hooks or open loops of line. It's hard for me to figure out what to do with those. It identified the fish and provided brief descriptions but no reference pictures inside the covers. I had to go online no find photographs of the fish to get a real idea what they looked like.

Fantastic. These books are the best I have found to find pictures to use as templets or stencils for designs to paint on silk.

There are wonderful illustrations of reef fish and corals in this nicely illustrated book. Adults can color it with colored pencils to de-stress, and kids can benefit from learning all about the creatures of the coral reef. This also is a very good reference for the graphic artist as well.

The first few Dover coloring books I bought were wonderful, because they included full color pictures to show the colors of each species. Part of the exercise in coloring these is to familiarize yourself with the color of the species.
This book only has 14 insets, less than half of the actual pages. I was a print buyer and realize that adding an extra four 4-color-process pages would slightly increase Dover's cost. But -- come on! -- the books are $4 each -- that's alot for a coloring book! At least give us the full-color insets.
The pages themselves are -- as always-- exquisitely detailed. Too bad I don't know how to color them!

This book includes both fish and invertebrates found on a coral reef and is a nice introduction to these species for children interested in marine life. The illustrations are accurate and easy to color and there's just enough info about each illustration to learn a little something. There is also a nice introduction to the different phyla found on the coral reef. As a fish and wildlife coloring book illustrator myself, I find that coloring often gives children the chance to learn in a pressure free environment, on their own terms, and also to get creative. I also like the fact that Dover is now printing on recycled paper. There are a number of other coloring books that are great for coloring fish...Seashore Life Coloring Book (Colouring Books), Great Barrier Reef Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Book)...or tryThe Complete Hawaiian Reef Fish Coloring Book which is also printed on recycled paper.

Beautiful coral reef and fish coloring book that entertains even older children. My grandchildren like to draw their own fish, using these as a guide.