Jan van HaasterenColouring Book "New September 2015"

What I like about this book:1) 60 pages to colour. Some books only have 30 or 40. They may sound more but if single sided you half the colouring experience.2) Each page is filled - no empty spaces, or requirements for you to do drawing of your own. (That is a niggle I have with some books - I buy to colour, not draw. I am no artist)3) Paper is nice and thick so I can use pencils, gels and stabilo type markers. Goes without saying, no way will I try alcohol based markers. They go through even thick paper.4) The images are fun. If you like the jigsaws, you get the same type of theme and story telling.5) This is spiral bound. You can lay the pages flat and get to all aspects of the image. I just wish other publishers would take note and realise this is what we want to be able to do. No tight binding here to hack into.Aspects that could be improved:1) Some of the images are zoomed out (if that makes sense) so yes, you get a lot going on, but some aspects are very, very tiny. Doesn't apply to many pages, but worth mentioning.2) Some of the black line work is not crisp and dark. Not as bad as with another book I own (Doodle Invasion) but this could have been better.3) Double sided images. Not a problem due to the paper quality, but if you are a hardened alcohol marker user, you may regret this. Many of the images are single paged, so could lend themselves to being on one side of paper only.4) approx 8 images are duplicated. One is close up, one is zoomed out. I am sure there are enough jigsaws in this range to find images of, so duplicating in this way is a bit of a crock.Overall, this is a good book. I am going to have fun completing it, but be prepared to spend a LOT of hours on each image. So this may not be a book for those who have short attention spans, or who feel intimidated by images that take days / weeks as opposed to hours.I hope this is the first of other books. Colouring should be fun as well as relaxing, and this offers giggles aplenty.

Love the Cartoons. Amazing Humor. Lots of detail, Spiral bound. Nice white heavy stock.Love the Zoom in Pages for larger coloring.and the scenes continuing for multiple pagesFor color pencils they will be Great. I like to use markers to color.Took off one point because they are not single sided pages (to avoid bleed thru)Would definitely buy another book of his drawings to color if does single sided

This is a fun and funny book to work on. Another book that will guarantee a lot of smiles and chuckles as you colour. Some of the themes go over several pages, for me, a few too many in some instances. However this book contains so many great humorous and intricate illustrations that it will have you entertained for many, many hours!

No words very very funny like to see more

I like this book alot only thing I'm not keen on are the repeat/close up of some of the pictures, the paper seems thicker and have more tooth then the black cover colouring puzzle book.

Interesting and lovely finding little surprises in the pictures - enjoyed

Bought as a Christmas gift so obviously not used yet. Looks good, I think it will keep the recipient busy for many hours! Arrived in good time, efficient ordering service.

I have most of Jan Van Haasteren jigsaws, so when i saw this i had to get it. i was not disappointed, the pictures are great fun and the paper is good quality making it easy to colour.