![]() ![]() ![]() The final pages of the book include a key to the Secret Garden, showing the locations of all the hidden goodies. Secret Garden is also a look-and-find book, with a host of creatures and other things, like a message in a bottle, a treasure chest and keys, hidden throughout the pages. Best of all, beyond being a beautiful coloring book, Secret Gardenis, as Basford says, filled with challenges like "mazes to solve, patterns to complete and lots of space for you to add your own inky drawings. Besides being dead gorgeous, her illustrations are intricately playful and magically creative. More than a year ago, I was perusing the coloring book section at Barnes & Noble, looking for a gift for my son to take to a 10 year old girl's birthday party and Basford's first book Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book jumped out at me. The book is flowers, trees and animals - youll need plenty of shades of green The basis is on reality - many of these books have the internal spaces of animals filled with a giddy mass of geometric lines and patterns, just to add complexity to the drawings. ![]() That said, coloring books for adults have become enormously popular in the last couple of years, fueled by the self-proclaimed Ink Evangelist, Johanna Basford, and in this season of gift giving her books are especially worth noting. In seven years, I have never reviewed a coloring book here, although I have reviewed more than a few doodle books. ![]()
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