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|author= Matilda Tristram
|title= My Year in Small Drawings: Notice, Draw, Appreciate
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Crafts
|summary=In recent years there has been an upsurge in the publication of 'interactive' books, designed to spark our creativity. Colouring books for adults, as well as my teenage daughter's current favourite: ''Wreck This Journal,'' seek to tap into our creative side, whilst promoting mindfulness and relaxation. By actively encouraging us to slow down and look at the world around us, books like these enable us to take time out of our busy lives and just enjoy the present moment. And this method must be working, because they are proving incredibly popular. I was intrigued, therefore, at the idea behind ''My Year in Small Drawings,'' which invites readers to create a visual diary of the world around us by creating a series of small pictures on a given subject.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782405348</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Thomas Flintham
|summary=There's no choice in the matter - you're going back to Transylvania in the late nineteenth century, to follow Dracula's attempts to move to England in search of new blood and to spread the undead curse. Only this time you're not reading Bram Stoker's classic, but using pens and crayons in this colouring classic full of bloodthirsty vampires, gothic patterns, dramatic landscapes and nightmarish figures. It's eerie, it's dramatic and it's great good fun.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869329X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Kidby
|title=Terry Pratchett's Discworld Colouring Book
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|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>
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