This interactive activity book takes you on a ramble through a secret garden created in beautifully detailed pen-and-ink illustrations all waiting to be brought to life. Tumble down the rabbit hole and find yourself in an inky black-and-white wonderland. The final pages of the book include a key to the Secret Garden, showing the locations of all the hidden goodies. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book.
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.
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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