Customer Reviews

Roger Burrows Images 5: The Ultimate Coloring Experience

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I am hugely disappointed in this item, and the cover photo is extremely misleading, since the inside pages are NOT white as the cover pic shows! They are beige-yellow kraft paper type color and the poorest quality paper of any coloring book--for adults, or kids--that I have ever seen. Why wasn't this very important fact mentioned in the description? The price of this book is outrageous compared to the excellent quality paper and designs of the under four dollar set, such as Dazzling Designs, or even Kaleidoscope Designs coloring books. I would not have paid even two dollars for this book.

The pages don't copy well--they come out dirty looking because of the yellowish paper. The pages are very thin, NOT suitable for markers, paint or any wet media (the type I use most). At least they are printed one to a page, and the designs would be great, IF the paper quality were even adequate or minimal, or could be copied in white at least, to color out of the book. Do not pay six-plus bucks for this, unless you have money to burn and are buying this for a genius 2 year old with crayons. Maybe a two dollar used copy would be a good value for children to use?

Unfortunately, the designs are the type of complex, 3-D patterns an adult would enjoy most, so I don't understand why they used the worst paper they could find, and then priced it out of range with its actual value. I had all of these versions in my wish list and would have bought every one of them if this one had at least white (or ability to clean copy) pages. The real killer is that it will cost me more to return it and I am out not only the cover price, but postal costs both ways as well.

Do all of the "Roger Burrows Images" (original numbered one through 4) coloring books have such poor quality, thin, non-white scap type paper as this one? If not, let me know and maybe I'll try a different one. The designs in this one are particularly appealing compared to the previous versions by Roger Barrows. The Ultimate Coloring Experience? I think not, unless he means a new ultimate WORST coloring experience. Item cover photo misrepresents this Images 5 book almost to the point of bait and switch technique--show perfectly beautiful, complex designs on brilliant white paper, then inside where a potential online buyer can't truly see, the cheapest medium possible for coloring on.

I am an adult that loves to color and these Roger Burrows books are great. I find they work best with colored pencils in that the designs are very intricate, but fine tip markers work fine as well if you don't mind bleed through (the paper is fairly thin). Very good, cheap, relaxing therapy! Can't miss--these would be fine for older children as well that are very attentive to detail.

If you are going to purchase any of the Images coloring book series for your child...I suggest you wait till they are atleast 10 or older. Just so they can fully appreciate the intricate details of these designs. Personaly I color and frame these designs as snowflake patters for chrismas presents.

These designs are lots of fun to color, sort of relaxing and stimulating all at the same time. Shapes, pictures, and patterns appear, and disappear, in front of your eyes. I loved coloring in the designs and creating something that I knew was all of my own. I really recommend Images Book 5 for all those who want to explore their own imaginations.

Very disappointed in this item since I thought I was buying a new book. I received a very worn book that was already colored in. Book is in poor shape (lots of bent, yellow pages) It would have been helpful to know beforehand that some of the designs were colored and that the pages were in bad condition, especially since I chose a "new" book.

My grandchildren color these on rainy days. Since there are several of the same pics, so theres no arguing between them.

This was a 2010 Christmas gift for my 9-year old granddaughter, and even though she ALSO received an iPod from her parents (which kept her very, very busy), she also liked--and used--this very advanced type of coloring book, and soon caught on to the idea of all the different patterns that could be produced by coloring different sectors of the designs differently. I think these are excellent alternatives to the usual kind of children's coloring books, and should make them stretch their imaginations quite beyond the bunnies, trees and simple pictorials in most of these books.

This is the 5th book in this series and the more challenging of them all.
Love the optical illusions that it brings out.