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|author=Thomas Flintham
|title=Around the World Colouring Book
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Colouring books are a useful way for children to relax, develop manual dexterity and explore colour, but in the dash to appeal to the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational ''and'' to still appeal to the young. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: it's got page upon page of pictures to colour (with just a little narrative to set the scene) with the added attraction of four pages of stickers. You'll see grey shapes - and that's the signal to get stickering!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788000005</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Gavin Rutherford and Tanya Batrak
|summary=It was Sir Terry Pratchett whose chose Paul Kidby as artist for ''The Last World'' and the covers of the ''Discworld'' novels from 2002 onwards and it was a marriage made in heaven, with the one complementing the other. Kidby himself says that designing the characters with pencil and paint ''challenged and amused him beyond measure.'' The writing conjured clear imagery and it was his job to capture the humour and richly-textured stories on paper. Kidby and Pratchett shared interests in nature, folklore, science and history as well as a love of Monty Python and the bizarre and to my eyes at least the result was more, far more, than the sum of the parts.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217474</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=LucasFilm
|title=Star Wars: Colouring By Numbers
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=I've never had any talent as an artist: I once earned the comment from an art teacher that I would struggle to draw a straight line with a ruler, but it's something I've always wanted to be able to do. For a while in my teens I was seduced by oil-painting-by-numbers kits, which promised to allow me to produce paintings of horses grazing in the fields or boats at anchor in the harbour. In fact all I ''really'' produced was a mess - literally ''and'' artistically. I've had slightly more success with adult colouring books, providing that they didn't require too much skill, although I did succeed in establishing that Benedict Cumberbatch would not look good [[Sherlock: The Mind Palace: The Official Colouring Book by Mike Collins|with a spray tan]]. If I was going to produce anything worth looking at then I needed a great deal of help with shading.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284781</amazonuk>
}}