Exploratorium: A Search and Colour Mission Paperback – 14 Sept. 2017

This is a great book, full of fantastic art to color and look at. The challenges add a unique addition to the typical coloring book experience!As always Mr. Melendres’ doodles take your imagination for a crazy, fun ride! A great diversion for the days stress.

oh I love this book it is so much fun to color the paper is really nice. the art work is great !!!! 100 % happy

Ok

Cannot get enough of this guys drawings. They are absolutely wonderful to look at and color.

Excellent colouring book, the pages are a good thickness with only slight bleed through when using dark pens.

Interesting! Kerbs Roasans style

The media could not be loaded. This review is taken from my blog where I review adult colouring books from a mental health perspective, more images from inside the book can be found there. I received a copy of this book from the publisher, I was not obliged to provide a review.This book is 25cm square, the same size as the bestsellers, paperback with black covers and coloured elements from inside the book on the covers. The spine is glue and string-bound and relatively tight but it does become more pliable with use so that you can reach the majority of the image to colour it. The images are printed double-sided and all of them are double-page spreads. The paper is bright white, medium thickness and lightly textured, it takes pencil well and water-based pens don’t bleed but do shadow a little so you may not want to use these but it should get covered when colouring the other side. This book is primarily aimed at children, however, the images are pretty detailed and packed with content and therefore plenty of adults will love it too. The book starts with a short introduction explaining the premise of the book, it’s a search and find colouring mission so there are a list of objects depicted which can be found within the pages. Following this, each double-page spread is dedicated to a different world and these drastically range in theme from space and future-themed to prehistoric and historical, there are heaps and heaps of scenes from a circus to haunted house, alien invasion to science lab, candy land to the North Pole, skate park to volcano and time travel to under the sea and so much more, there is a really wide scope to the content and something to suit everyone. Lei’s art style is most similar to Kerby Rosanes’s and is very much drawn in a doodle style, the images are packed with alien creatures and strange forms and the content is really quirky, whimsical and fun. The search and find aspect is surprisingly difficult for a book that’s aimed at children, my boyfriend spent ages searching for the items in one of the spreads and in the end had to give up on the last one and look at the answers, luckily there are thumbnail pictures of the spreads at the back that identify where the hidden creatures and objects are so there’s no need for frustration if one or two elude you.In terms of mental health, this book is pretty good, the pages are packed with content and are very distracting, there’s loads to look at, to hunt down, and then to colour and this book really will keep you occupied for hours. It’s certainly not a calming book so those of you with anxiety or a racing mind may want to keep this book for calmer days but the content is quite invigorating so those suffering from low mood may well be perked up by the humour often depicted and added into the scenes. The line thickness is fairly consistent within each page but differs between them as do the intricacy and detail levels, all have a lot of content but some are much more detailed and fine-lined than others so do check out the photos and video flick-through as you’ll need fairly good vision and fine motor control to get the most out of this book, it’s certainly not well-suited to young children, probably advanced 8 year olds and up. While the content isn’t nature-based, the fantasy elements and imagination of it all are great for absorbing you into a far off land in the past or future which is often better than the here and now and is great for keeping your mind busy and focused on the task at hand rather than any troublesome thoughts or symptoms you might be experiencing. A lot of the images are filled with wacky, surreal creatures and therefore don’t have a “real” colour scheme that you need to follow so you can really go to town and use any colour you fancy and it’ll look equally fabulous and even the realistic aspects can be spiced up by unusual colour schemes like trees with blue trunks and orange leaves, purple pumpkins or red rocks, just grab a pen or pencil and get colouring and you’ll soon be fully immersed in this intricate, doodle-filled world.Overall, I would highly recommend this to older kids and adults, it’s great fun to hunt the hidden items and to colour and the different scenes make for a really varied colouring experience with each scene being different from the last and transporting you to a far off place. This book is surreal, wacky and a joy to colour for the young, the old, and everyone in between!

I LOVE THIS BOOK AS SOON AS I GOT I STARTED COLORING AND FINDING THE CREAUTURES. IM VERY HAPPY WITH THIS BOOK!

j'avoue avoir acheter ce livre ma foi fort sympathique sur un coup de tête, voulant me mettre au coloriage pour adultes, je n'avais pas d'idées précises sur ce que je voulais colorier, et, je suis tomber sur ce livre.j'ai regarder des review sur le net, pour voir son contenu, voir si ça me plairais et ça m'as énormément plus, et maintenant que je l'ai en main c'est encore pire !je vais passer des heures et des heures à colorier tout ces petits doodle tout en essayant de retrouver les petit personnages cachés dans chaque dessins, j'adhère totalement ! ♥

Not quite all I'd hoped it would be for coloring. The paper does have great tooth, but all the two page scenes seem overshadowed by the text. There are some funny scenes, but this is not one of my favorites. I may end up keeping it for the grandkids to color.