Harry Potter Colouring Book: An official colouring book
£8.10£10.40 (-22%)
From the heraldry of the four Hogwarts houses to the extravagant wares of Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes, the world of Harry Potter overflows with radiant colour. Filled with intricate illustrations and elaborate designs used in the making of the Harry Potter films, this book invites you to imbue the wizarding world with colour in your own explorations of Hogwarts castle, the Forbidden Forest, and much more.
You will also find pages of magical creatures and iconic scenes from the films, from the Sorting Ceremony in Harry’s first year, to the unforgettable final battle between Harry and Lord Voldemort, as well as some of the marvellous props used in the movies, such as The Quibbler, Quidditch World Cup posters, and the Triwizard Cup.
Unique and interactive, the Harry Potter Colouring Book is a perfect collector’s item for fans of the blockbuster saga.
For best results, we recommend the use of colouring pencils to colour and create your stunning pictures.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Studio Press, 1st edition (5 Nov. 2015) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 80 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1783705485 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1783705481 |
| Reading age | 8 – 12 years, from customers |
| Dimensions | 21.5 x 0.8 x 27.5 cm |
by Alane Jarvis
Bought for my granddaughter who was 10. She was pleased with the pictures and there were lots of them.
by Fullarton-Ward
I really like this book. After reading quite a few reviews at first I was very put off so I went to sample the book in-store. The book I saw was, like many of the reviews stated, printed on a yellowish parchment paper. HOWEVER, when I ordered from here my book is printed in your typical stark white paper. I do have to mention that, yes, it is printed back-to-back and the paper feels like mildly shiny printer paper. It is suitable for use with quality colouring pencils only and you can press on it to a fair degree without tears. I do not recommend you scrub at it and you need to get quality pencils for the colours to come out properly as it is printer paper, not art paper.
I would definitely not use any form of felt tip, watercolour or ink-related equipment with this book.
The quality of the pictures is good, however, the perspective of them is a little off like someone wanted to get some basic images out and got bored towards the end so they filled in the blanks a bit. Some photos are beautiful, especially the one of Dumbledore holding Harry as a baby, but others look slightly warped and some of the faces are not so distinct. You could say it’s not amazing and in some places even a little sloppy. The pictures are 100% based from the film, you can see character’s facial features enough to recognise most and in the back it comes with photographs of some of the work.
Variety of pictures? not amazing. It starts off strong and in places it pulls out some stronger more complex and lovely images, but many are filled pages with extra badges or just low quality and basic designs.
I would recommend this more for adults. It can take 2+ hours to properly colour one of the full A4 detailed pages.
by Nicc07a
It is fair to say you cannot ignore the ongoing ‘Adult colouring in’ craze at the moment, it intrigues me greatly, I, like many others, I’m sure, have tried to ignore it, but it is easier said than done. However since the build up to the Christmas period it definitely played in my favour, it turns out these books make the ideal Christmas present for all adults of all ages.
I brought this Harry Potter adult colouring in themed book to gave as a secret Santa Christmas present for my Harry Potter fan, sixteen year old, art student Saturday girl work colleague.
We work together in a toy shop and sell a range of colouring in books for very young children and those older children, through this work we already knew there were many a adult who brought colouring in books for themselves before this craze ‘Got big’! (With the introduction of Adult Colouring books it now allows these people to buy these books with pride!)
We had previously discussed the power of ‘colouring in’ and how it makes a great distraction from the ‘real world’ and creates a sense of calm and mindfulness. Since receiving this gift she has reported back on how it has been fantastic relaxation tool for her and maybe too much of a distraction from her ‘real art’ work and a little bit addictive and not wanting to stop and ‘must finish each page’!
She loved it, and still talks about it now (feb)! She love the characters pages and especially the ‘poster style’ designs.
As a non Harry Potter fan I thought it looked really attractive both on the inside and out and the illustrations are of great detail and the pages (paper) are great quality.
I have seen this book in many other retailers but at the time of purchase it was a great price too compared to those over the Christmas period.
I would recommend this book to any Harry Potter fan of any age and even those who are not as familiar with the books/films.
I am very pleased with my purchase a will definitely look into to buying others for myself and other friends.
by veronica cotton
Beautiful book and speedy delivery
by Kit
So far I am loving this colouring book. I am a huge Harry Potter fan and have been waiting to buy this, and have just been waiting to expand my colouring utensils collection first. At 96 pages, it will take me ages to colour through it, which I am quite happy about!
There are varying pages, in terms of abilities, so there are some more simple designs (such as just simple scarves and lightning bolts) as well as very detailed pages (where the designs are so miniscule and it takes up the whole page!), so you can find something suitable for you. I started off with the more simple designs so that I could work my way up to the complex ones later! In addition, they have full-colour prints of some of the colouring pages in the back of the book, which is helpful to me as I like to replicate the scenes as accurately as possible. It is also nice to wax nostalgic by looking at scenes of the films while I do the colouring!
The pages are quite thick; I’m not sure if the quality has changed as some of the other reviews say to stick with pencil. I have used gel colouring pens, from 0.8 to 1.00mm thick, and they have not bled through at all. The pages to me seem quite weighty and glossy, so perhaps they have improved since those reviews.
The only slight nitpick I have for this is that this is glue-bound, which makes it so you have to bend the spine of the book to get the whole page. I’m not sure why most colouring books do this, perhaps it’s the cheapest way, instead of say ring-bound, but it is of tiny irritation for me. I don’t think I will discount a star for that as it seems to be a thing for colouring books across the board.
Regardless, this is a great, comprehensive colouring book for any Harry Potter fan out there!