Posted on 07/15/2015 9:30:47 AM PDT by grimalkin
NEW YORK (AP) -- Adult coloring books are giving Harper Lee a run for the money on best-seller lists this summer.
Dover Publications has sold more than 3 million adult coloring books with titles like "Flower Fashion Fantasies." Quarto Publishing will have 1.3 million in print this year ranging from mandalas to fairies. "Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt," by one of the genre's most popular illustrators, Johanna Basford, remains a top seller on Amazon two years after its initial publication.
In fact, adult coloring books occupied as many of eight of the top 20 slots in a spot-check of Amazon's best-seller list this week, including "Creative Cats" and "Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Patterns."
"We cannot print them fast enough," said Amy Yodanis, Quarto's head of marketing. "We are getting orders of 60,000 at one time from some of our biggest retailers."
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I look at it this way, there are worse ways to "relax".
Why should kids get all the fun. There is something relaxing about coloring in a coloring book.
I like Zentangle....but, I create my own patterns....it is relaxing....too bad I hardly ever take time to do it!!!
I got a new printer last month and my daughter tells me what she wants to color.
I haven’t printed anything else yet.
Buy another. :-)
But don’t you run out of “flesh” colored crayon in a hurry?
;)
When I was a kid, I clearly remember a set of detailed coloring books that were famous paintings of the revolutionary war. Several times over the years I have wondered about where I could get those. I think I may have to search again.
Adults acting like children.
And they vote.
Yeah for the wife, Ive seen her eyeballing my book.
Maybe a third one for the boy.
Just make sure you don’t color over the lines. =)
I bet Obama has coloring books =)
I take it that some of these are supplied for the ‘safe rooms’ at college for the vaporous liberals to retreat to when an EVIL Conservative INVADES their space. Play nice and color WITHIN the lines and don’t quarrel over the crayons.
LoL. My son has hundreds of these - he liked a site called “DragoArt” because they had contemporary figures from gaming, etc., so they were like toys to him after he colored and cut them out.
Then he discovered 3-d printable “foldables” online.... Fun!
Did you ever encounter the series that had panes of colored stamps illustrating the various themes offered. Antique cars, airplanes, historical events etc.
Each page had text and a line drawing, but not the same as the colored stamp. You had to read the text to locate the proper stamp to paste and color in the line drawing.
Loved those soft cover books.
I was about to comment that the “Paint by numbers crowd” must haved missed the items, but a quick search indicates that they are still available and have a stout following.
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But you can hang the “painting” not so much the coloring book page.
I will look into the foldables, thanks!
Building a 7’ tall Tesla coil is WAY more fun.
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