Scribbles: A Really Giant Drawing and Coloring Book

らくがき絵本

by Taro Gomi

This is no ordinary coloring book! With playful drawings, funny scenarios and fun-to-follow instructions, this book is not just for coloring, but for doodling, drawing, imagining and thinking!

Genres: Art, Childrens

368 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

About the author

Taro Gomi (五味太郎) is a major children’s illustrator and writer. He has more than 400 book titles to his credit. His work has been widely translated into 15 other languages.


Tarō was born in Tokyo and he graduated from ID department, Kuwazawa Design Institute. His readers range from babies to adults, with an equal number of fans overseas. His work has been appreciated considerably with both domestic and international honours such as the Sankei Jido Shuppan Bunka Award, Bologna Children's Book Fair Award among others.


Along with authoring children's books, he is well-known in the fields of Stationery design, clothing design, production of young children's animated videos, CD-ROMs, essays etc.


His popular books published in English include Everyone Poops, Santa Through the Window, Where's the Fish?, My Friends and The Crocodile and the Dentist.

Reviews

[Greta]

Aún no lo estreno adecuadamente.

[Philitsa]

This from the author of "Everyone Poops", so you can expect some unexpected humor. This is more than a coloring book; it's hours and hours of fun for kids and adults! The majority of the book gives suggestions on what to draw -- kinda like filling in the rest of the scene. One example is, "Draw people sitting." On the page, there are three images already drawn: a chair, a throne, and a toilet. Your job is to drawn people sitting on those seats.

Another example is "Draw a dead person."

Yeah.

You may want to keep this away from kids that can read until they're old enough to understand what "dead" means. You probably wouldn't want their first introduction to the fragility of human existence to come from a coloring book.

[Michele]

Great for sparking the imagination with simple suggestions. My favorite is a run of four pages that just have one line drawn on each one - the first says "Draw a dragonfly balancing on the pole", the second "Draw a sparrow balancing on the pole", then "Draw a tiger balancing on the pole" and finally "Draw an elephant balancing on the pole". The prompts on each page are simple enough for beginning readers so my daughter loves it!

[Meghan]

Yes, this is for kids to color in, but who cares? The thick lines with white inbetween are amazing. The drawings are simple, friendly, and beg to be colored in with a thick pile of paint.

[Alissa]

I'm not kidding, I love these books

[Paula]

one of my favourite birthday books this year!

[Miriam]

So much fun!