Straight colouring, with no puzzles breaking the rhythm, is what this Barbie title offers across forty-eight pages.
There is a case for keeping an activity book simple: a child who only wants to colour does not have to skip pages to find the next drawing, and an adult does not have to explain instructions. The line art is drawn clean and open, which matters because crayons are blunt and small hands are not precise. Dreamland Publications sets the age range at two to eight, and the format holds up across it, since a toddler filling in shapes and a seven-year-old shading carefully are both using the same pages.
What makes it useful:
• Colouring pages throughout, with no mixed activity sections
• Forty-eight pages in a paperback that stays open while a child works
• Line art open enough for crayons as well as coloured pencils
• A two to eight age range, published by Dreamland Publications
A straightforward buy for parents who want colouring and nothing else in the book, published by Dreamland Publications and available from Boipoka.