Johanna's Christmas: A Festive Coloring Book for Adults

Gorgeous book. Love the thick paper. Pages are one sided with a pattern on the back. Perforated so I've been tearing a page out for my 5yo and he works on it for a week. Came back to buy another as a gift.

Excellent as all her books

You can never go wrong with a Johanna Basford coloring book. His coloring books are the best! I own 2 of them, 'Lost Ocean' and 'Secret Garden'. Both books are amazing! You don't only get to color, you also get to draw out some of the drawings.I brought this Johanna's Christmas coloring book for my friend as a Christmas present and she really loved it!! She was so happy! Again you can't go wrong with a Johanna Basford coloring book!

Very nice book I even framed some of the colored pages!

Finally and Hooray! Johanna Basford and her publisher have listened to her fans and printed this beautiful coloring book on one side of the page. Not only that, they have perforated the pages so you can take pages out if you wish to do so. The back of the pages are not neglected either as there is the lightest of gray holiday design patterns.The designs are beautiful and evocative of the holiday season. With everything from Christmas trees to polar bears, ornaments to prancing deer, the designs are instantly recognizable as Ms. Basford's charming style. There are 37 designs which celebrate the Christmas season. Christmas is my favorite holiday and having such a beautiful book of designs to color will help brighten up any dreary, cold days. Not to mention they will be a wonderful way to sit and relax when the holiday season starts becoming more and more hectic.The designs are open and easy to color. This is something that Ms. Basford began in her most recent book (“Magical Jungle”) and I'm pleased to see it once again. It makes it so much easier to use all forms of coloring medium and with the printing on one side, this time it really should be a choice of any coloring book medium.While several designs are set up too appear as two page spreads, only one design actually has elements which spread across two pages (a small garland and a baseboard.) Those elements cross the perforations and spread over the binding. Not a problem as it is so small and each of the pages can easily stand along as a single design. A suggestion for future books might be a fold-out page for the design or two of this nature. That would keep the whole design together and make it that much easier to color.The cover of the book has fold-outs front and back with coloring opportunities on it. I'll be interested to see if the UK version still retains the dust cover as it did with “Magical Jungle”. The attached cover has black line drawings as well as very pretty red, green, and gold foil accents on the front. The cover can be colored, however, it is much smoother in texture than the paper inside the coloring book. The title and presentation pages can be colored as well.I have ordered the UK version of this coloring book. Once it arrives, I will do a comparison of the US versus UK versions. You can look for the comparison in the comments section below.This book is definitely going on my list of family and friend gifts. I can think of several individuals I would love to give it to along with a small set of markers – which we get to use finally with this book.This is what I experienced while coloring in this book and testing the paper with my coloring medium. I will list, in the comments section below, the coloring medium I used to test this book and which I generally use for my coloring.37 – Wonderfully Festive Christmas/Winter Designs by Johanna Basford (this counts the potential two page spreads as separate designs)Printed on one side of the page (did I mention Hooray!!)Paper is heavyweight, ivory, slightly rough and perforatedGlue BindingAlcohol-based markers bleed through the pageWater-based markers and gel pens leave the slightest of shadows on the back of the page.Gel pens did not bleed through the page but did require a little more drying time.Colored pencils worked well. I tested both oil and wax-based pencils with good results. I was able to layer the same color for deeper pigment, layer multiple colors and to blend easily with a pencil style blending stick.

This book is so pretty and sweet! It has all of the classic, idealized Christmas elements to make you feel nostalgic and happy about the holidays. I personally like the detailed nature of Johanna Basford's drawings and enjoy that kind of meditative colouring experience more than large, simple illustrations. There's no filler in this book as I have found other Christmas colouring books to have (e.g. the ubiquitous large drawing of a single tree ornament on one page as found in cheapo books, leaving you to fill in the whole thing red or whatever - so boring!!). Every illustration here is interesting and beautiful, and also challenging.There is a 'Color Palette Test Page' at the back and a lovely grey-scale decoration pattern on the back of each colouring page for bleedthrough, but I have yet to have that happen due to the amazing quality of the paper. It just adds to the whole experience of a Johanna Basford colouring book. Such a treat!Another example of her attention to detail is that Ms. Basford alternates holly (red/green) and mistletoe (white/darker green) on the edging and accents so it's not as monochromatic and boring to colour. Just lots of thoughtful elements and lots of fun as well, including a search and find throughout the book of little robin birds that you can locate in each illustration. Adorable and festive! Highly recommended.

It's beautifully drawn and lovely thick paper. single sided images so you can use whatever colouring medium you want without worry of sacrificing an image on the reverse. as others have said if you do a quick Google there is a video flick through by Johanna herself explaining why they are perforated pages. I'll probably leave my colourings in the book, but it's nice to have the option of removing them easily to frame as decorations. Yes it's less detailed than her other books but I think that makes a nice change, some of her pictures take forever to colour and its not long until Christmas so I stand a chance of being able to colour a few before then lol. I was looking forward to this book for ages and I'm not disappointed but I did watch the video flick through she did so I knew exactly what I was getting maybe if you aren't sure that would be a good thing to do before purchasing :) there are printed repeats in this book but as Johanna has explained it's to avoid the pages being completely blank so you can colour them if you wish but they're really just there to avoid blank pages and to help it look prettier

Very beautiful and satisfying

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