Doodles: A Really Giant Coloring and Doodling Book

らくがき絵本

by Taro Gomi

Renowned children's book illustrator Taro Gomi invites kids of all ages to not only color, but also draw, imagine, and create. Unfinished pictures and intriguing prompts foster children's powers of visualization, and at nearly 400 pages, this book provides plenty of room to stretch the imagination.

Genres: Art, Childrens, Nonfiction

368 pages, Paperback

First published October 24, 2005

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

[Joe Gregorio · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't know who has more fun with this, me or the kids. The best is me and boys sitting on the couch working on drawings together. I liked it so much I created a flickr group to share completed pages.

[Trish · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is one thing to be creative sitting in your room with a blank piece of paper, and it is another to be stimulated to thought by the beginnings of doodles given one by Taro Gomi. I simply adore the spur to creative thought that Taro Gomi gives us. It was the first doodling book I came across, and it remains the best I've seen. There are a slew of other doodling books out there now, but this remains the classic. Not so fine as to stump a "naive" artist, and not so complete as to stymie a creative graphic artist on the rise. Bravo!

[ZZ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best book! My parents got it at Barnes & Noble before we drove to North Carolina...it is like a coloring book but way better. It encourages my creativity and helps me to draw and be very clever in my art work. It was kind of expensive ($20.00) but my parents think it was worth it and they will get me a new Doodles book if they make a second volume.

[Autumn · Rating 5 out of 5]

best coloring book ever

[Elle · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is really cool. I think I'll buy one for each kid. I'll have to wait to give it to them until they're maybe 8.

[Paula · Rating 5 out of 5]

so much fun for the entire family!

[Fran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a fantastic book to help capture (anyone's) imagination!