Adult Colouring Books
Book Review Calming Celtic Colouring Adult Colouring Book An amazing phenomenon in the book industry is the popularity of adult colouring books. There’s a good article in Time magazine about how this whole trend got started. In 2013, Scottish illustrator Johanna Basford, who created elaborate black and white illustrations for corporate clients, had the idea to publish an adult colouring book when her clients kept saying they felt a need to colour in her illustrations. Now, 16 million copies later, she is publishing her fourth offering, Magical Jungle . Her other books, Secret Garden , Enchanted Forest , and Lost Ocean , are actually quite beautiful and thematically interesting. A fifth book, Johanna’s Christmas is due later this year. So it stands to reason that others would be jumping on the band wagon, including Game of Thrones originator George RR Martin, whose colouring book based on characters in the hugely popular book and televis...