Mermaid Adventure Scratch and Sketch: An Art Activity Book for Artistic Mermaids of All Ages (Art, Activity Kit) Hardcover-spiral – 1 Jan. 2013

This is a wonderful art activity book for children. The book opens to reveal a story about mermaids. The left hand page is white and contains the story and the right hand page is black and has a line picture. If you use the stylus (which fits neatly in an elastic holder, so it can’t be lost) to scratch at the lines, or colour in the picture, you will reveal the colours underneath the page. I have purchased similar bookmarks for my children, where the colours were revealed by scratching off the top coat of the paper, and this worked just as well.As well as all the fun of revealing the colours beneath the pictures, there are pages at the back for sketches and for your child to write their own story. My daughter also enjoyed colouring the little pictures beneath the printed text on the ‘story’ pages. All in all, this was great fun, which kept my daughter occupied for ages - there are 64 pages in the book, so loads to do. I would imagine this would be a fantastic choice for a long flight, or car ride, and you can keep it to read afterwards. There are other stories in the series and I will certainly be purchasing more.

I bought 2 of these books for my grandchildren . One was the Mermaid in which you traced along the lines and the other was monsters for my 4 year old grandson.Imagine our disappointment when we realised his had no lines to trace He started to scrape away the black paper so it is now a used book. These books are expensive so be careful when you order.

Arrived well packaged and in good time. This is an A5 book and is not that big. I was disappointed in the size and do not think this is worth £9.99.

Lovely book, makes a change from the M&D scratch cube. Doesn't have a huge amount of pages but theses things aren't made to last forever!

It is what you expect.

My daughter loved this...she's very creative and this makes a nice change from drawing and colouring

Great little book

Good buy lots to do very colour.