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Imagination, please!, March 7, 2005
My son, currently five years old, isn't sure about coloring books. His usual modus operandi was to make a couple of marks within the coloring page, then turn it over and draw on the back. I picked up this Anti-Coloring Book, the Fourth, on sale to see if he liked it any better. He most certainly does--he LOVES it!
"What do you need a fairy godmother to do for you?" asked the book. My son immediately drew a picture of himself flying like a bird. Then he decided to color in the fairy godmother's dress (she graces the upper left quarter of the page) because anyone who made him fly deserved to have a beautiful dress, he said.
The next printed page (the pages are printed on only one side in case one needs to take one out to share) asked, "What would it look like if you could see what a skunk smelled like?" My son proceeded to draw squiggly smell lines in browns and greens, adding a red saw and some blue smoke. The skunk at the bottom of the page got a technicolor "smell paint job" as well.
Other pages include the following (a selection of the 50 or so pages):
You are a famous pilot flying on an important mission.
What important things would you like to talk about with your parents?
Why are these police officers weriting out a ticket?
You have chartered a boat to sail to Paradise.
Design your own train set.
Each page has the "assignment" and a suitable line drawing that takes up only a portion of the page, roughly a fourth to a third for the most part.
I will definitely pick up the others in the series and look forward to many more smiles from my son. I believe that this series will serve him for several more years.
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Fun and educational, March 3, 2005
My little girl loves to color when I read, and I like the coloring page to be related to topic. I also like her to use her imagination. So for example, when we were studing the Presidents I gave her a page on which she had to finish a statue.
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Brilliant & Inspiring Book, July 12, 2011
I am not one to write an excessively long review on Amazon, but Susan Striker's Fourth Anti-Coloring Book provides an exception. I am always apprehensive when purchasing coloring books for my family members, as I feel that they are just a way to keep children busy and are unproductive. As a child I always thought: Yes, I can color in a page, so what? My brother can too, and so can the rest of my classmates. What makes this unique, when everyone is merely coloring between the lines of the same page of the same professional artists drawing? The answer was nearly nothing. When I stumbled across Susan Striker's Anti-Coloring Series, I was thrilled. Finally a book that provided children the chance to actively think and use their imaginations to create a piece of art that is uniquely their own! I was so thrilled that I purchased a couple of her books on Amazon and picked up a couple of the themed books at my local Borders. Not only does my family love them, I do too! I would recommend these books to inspiring artists of all ages!
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