Customer Reviews

Unicorns Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Books)

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4 star:		(7)
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This coloring book contains pictures of some very unusual unicorns along with text describing each one. The pictures are fairly detailed. My nine-year-old loved this book both for the variety of unicorns represented and for the information about each one. Gel pens are particularly useful in coloring the small spaces in several of the pictures. The book plus a set of the pens would make a nice gift. I would not recommend this book for the under six set due to the high level of detail in some of the pictures. However, this is the very reason older kids will love it.

I bought this for my daughters who are 4 and 6 and they enjoyed this coloring book. It is printed on nice heavy white paper and has nice illustrations. This book is geared for older children, but my daughters are very obsessed with coloring and did fine with it. My only disappointment was that some of the pictures weren't of unicorns, but rather other animals with a horn. My kids did not want to color the one-horned dinosaur or the narwhal. They are unicorn obsessed at the moment and just wanted to color unicorns.

A picture to color on each of its 32 pages. Each image has a short accompanying explaination of what legend or what type of unicorn is being discussed but that text does not overpower the drawings. Shaffer has done a good job of showing a wide variety of unicorns but I wish she'd made a comment on where she got her information.

It's got nice pictures and you can color it any color you want. It gives you neat information about Unicorns. My favorite is the double underwater Unicorns, because it's like a mirror, but not quite the same.

Our daughter and her friends LOVE this coloring book. This is our second copy, actually...she asked for another when she and her friend finished the last of the pages.

First, the illustrations are varied in style, and all are just gorgeous.

Second, the pages are all white paper stock so colors stay true.

Third, the paper is also of a heavier stock than your typical coloring book which reduces tearing and saturation issues.

Others have already mentioned the little blurbs of information on each page which the kids find interesting, too.

It's a favorite, no doubt about it.

This was a very sweet book with unicorn info, and cute coloring pictures. My mother owns a preschool called Kinderworks and all the kids there wanted to color it too!

I have bought several of these coloring books. I find that somehow little girls appear at my house with their mothers and, though, the mothers and I enjoy talking, the little girls (age 6-16) tend to become bored with adult conversation that is in no way related to their world. Usually, the girls are quite well mannered, but I "just know" they are bored out of their minds, so I go find a coloring book and crayons and send them into the dining room to color. Once there, they can use this coloring book as pathway back to their magical world and the mom and I can have our own boring adult conversation in peace.
The book provides pictures to color, but also shows what countries believed in unicorns and what the unicorns looked like in the folklore of any given country. The pictures are large and easy for small ones to color, but frequently, the background features are very intricate and hold the interest of the older ones. I believe it has 32 pages.
Some children color a page or two and leave with no attachment to the book. But most, over about age 8, become involved in the folklore and look at me imploringly when it is time to put up the crayons and the book. Once the crayons, I have all sorts, are safely put away, I usually let an imploring child take the book with her. I have lost 5 or 6 that way. I usually keep Unicorn Stickers on hand also.Unicorn Sticker - Tattoo It Laptop Stickers orGlitter Unicorns Stickers (Dover Little Activity Books Stickers). If the child has been especially patient, she will also leave with a sticker book.
The moms and I are generally engaged in setting up meetings, potlucks, or some get together which requires our concentration and which children find utterly boring. I can't think with the TV chattering away, so a coloring book and crayons provide something the child enjoys. Besides, my kitties cannot stand to have a stranger in the house without trying to explore the stranger. The dining room has cat trees in it, so coloring books AND curious kittens are generally together in that room. Makes for a contented child.
I am very impressed with the history of Unicorns given in the book. The one lone 16 year old who arrived became fascinated by the lore and begged to have the book. She got it.
I have used it as a stocking stuffer also. It is just a great book. I gave it only 4 stars because children who are younger than ten do not usually have the vocabulary to understand all the information given and I did originally buy it for a 5 year old. It was over her head and had only one rearing Unicorn which is what the younger ones really want...the pretty unicorns, not the historical ones. But, I use it often and generally have one tucked away. Since I can purchase three and receive four of these for the cost of three, it is really a great bargain for me! I do not suggest it for very young children who get frustrated if they cannot read the text themselves. Otherwise, it is suitable for children of all ages, including me. Dover makes nice informative, coloring books. No doubt you can find one on your favorite subject. I look for them in "Books." Enjoy.

This even includes a double unicorn and a narwhal. Enough said. If you like to ironically pretend to love unicorns, this is perfect. A fun gift for hipsters and those who want to be hipsters.

I bought this for my daughter's fifth birthday. She loves it and is still coloring in it after a year. It still wins out over other, newer coloring books she has. I would buy it again.

My 8 yr daughter loves unicorns so this was a real treat for her. I wanted to put 4 stars because some of the pictures were quite odd and not really what one would consider a 'horse unicorn', but my girl loved it anyway and told me to put 5! There are photos of half lion half deer with dragon scales and an antler for the horn. A horse/elephant/stag creature. An animal with a horn protruding out the forehead as well as out of the back of the head. There were sheep and dinosaurs as well. But there were some beautiful photos of 'horse' unicorns which made up for the odd creatures so she was overall very happy.