Harry Potter Magical Places & Characters Coloring Book

This book contains 78 detailed drawings to color. The subjects of the drawings are from all 8 movies. Many of the drawings are very intricate and require patience to finish. This is not a typical children's coloring book, it is much more advanced and suitable for teens and adults. There's also 15 pages of color photos and paintings from the 8 movies.

I have been a Harry Potter fan since the first book was released in 1997. I turn 30 years old this year and have a 7 year old son who also adores Harry Potter! :) My son has always gravitated towards art and I knew that this coloring book would be a great addition to his art/coloring book collection. The quality of the books and paper is excellent! We also love the color photos each book has in them, to use as reference if needed. You will not be disappointed! I have purchased the following from this line of Harry Potter coloring books; HP original, HP Magical Creatures, HP Magical Places & Characters and HP Magical Artifacts. The only one I have not purchased is the HP Postcard coloring book. In my opinion, the only downside of this book (and the others) is that the pages are not perforated. We like to remove some of our favorite pages, not only for easier/more comfortable coloring but to also display what we have created in frames. It is difficult to remove a page from these books. Overall, I am VERY satisfied with my purchase! My son and I adore all of them! :)

Amazing pictures from the movies! Perfect coloring book for any Harry Potter fan - adult or child.

This item more than met my expectations. I love how these new coloring books have the color pages, but then they also have photos of the pictures to give you inspiration on what colors to use. It was certainly as described in the product description on amazon. I would highly recommend this for anyone who loves to color and loves Harry Potter. This is my 3rd coloring book that I have purchased from scholastic via amazon and I love all of them. I would say they are a little complex pictures with alot of detail so if you are looking to buy this for younger children, I would probably go another route. I know that my 5 year old child would be a little overwhelmed with all of the detail in the pictures to color. The price was certainly fair, and the delivery was fast, and nothing was damaged.

Attached to this review will be a silent flip-through of the entire coloring book so you can make an informed decision as to whether or not it will work for you. Rather than discuss how this is like or different from the books and/or movie series except to note that, once again, most of the iconic images seem to be taken primarily from the movie, I will discuss only how I feel about it as an adult coloring book. As with the first two books in this series, there is a team of illustrators involved with the designs in this book. I thought the second book in the series was fairly cohesive but I think this new book takes a step back again. It is easy to see the differences in design styles. There are some designs that are just a tad more detailed than simple line drawings while there are also many which involve extremely small and intricate elements. These will probably take sharp pointed pencils or ultra-fine nibs to color. I am pleased that, as with the second coloring book, there are less designs with heavy black space. I consider this change from the first book to be a huge improvement and am happy with my design options apart from printing issues (see below.) Once again, they have included glossy pages at the end of the book. I will use them as I did the first time around, as a reminder of the actual colors of the characters and scenes. I don't necessarily use those colors but it is nice to have a reminder handy. I will provide details on the physical coloring book below but here is a quick overview of what I found: 78 Pages of Harry Potter Designs Designs are printed on both sides of off white/cream page Pages are not perforated Designs merge into binding Designs spread across two pages Glue Binding Alcohol based markers bleed through page Water-based markers leave slight shadows of color on back of page India Ink pens do not bleed through Gel pens leave a slight shadow on back of page Coloring Pencils work well with this paper The book is printed on both sides of off-white (almost cream) heavyweight and non-perforated paper. A good number of the designs are printed across two pages and merge into the binding (which is glued rather than sewn.) I did a count and this is what I came up with: 34 one page designs, 3 of which are “wallpaper” repeating patterns; 22 designs spread across two pages – 2 of which are wallpaper style designs. Once again, many of the more memorable scenes are spread across two pages and merge into the binding. I was able to slightly break the spine of the book and get it to lay fairly flat. In my copy, the images line up well and no parts of the design were lost in the actual binding. My first book in this series had a very weird kind of musty odor. I'm happy to say that both the second and this third books does not have the offensive odor I encountered in the first book. I hope this is true for everyone who buys this coloring book. I am now running consistent tests of various coloring mediums on all of my coloring books. I will list the mediums in the comments section below for anyone interested. Here are the results of my tests: All of my alcohol-based markers bled through the paper readily. My water-based markers all left a slight shadow of color through the page – not enough to leak through the book but enough to ruin the design on the back side of the page. My Tombows fared the best and did not leak through with one swipe of the brush but by the second one, there was a definite shadow showing. My India ink artist pens did not bleed through nor did they leave a discernible shadow. My gel pens all left a slight shadow on the backside of the page. Not enough to see the color but still a shadow of sorts. My coloring pencils were the best option. They worked well and behaved according to their type of lead and use (soft lead and hard lead.) The soft lead pencils blended and layered well and the hard lead made good precise marks and did not leave dents on the back of the page. I will use coloring pencils, India ink pens primarily for this book. I've already started a project using various markers knowing that I will ruin the wall paper style designs on the reverse side of the page. As I would never color that particular designs, it was not a hard decision to make. While using markers, I am using and I recommend that you use a blotter page under the working page to keep the ink from seeping further.

I really like this book. It’s got great scenes from the movie, incredible details, and it’s true to the movies.

Absolutely buy again! Definitely an adult coloring book though, very detailed pages. Super cool HP themes!

This was an awesome coloring book. I loved that this coloring book seemed to be in order of the books as well. I would recommend using colored pencils so that the colors do not bleed through to the next beautiful page. I do wish that you could tear out pages and there was not a second picture to color on the back so that you could display both sides.

O produto atendeu as expectativas. O presenteado adorou. A entrega foi feita antes do combinado. Fiquei muito satisfeita.

Mooie tekeningen maar niet helemaal wat ik ervan verwacht had. Vond hem toch iets te kinderlijk.

Ottimo passatempo

Idealne na prezent dla fana HP dużo jest stron do kolorowania

Not age appropriate at all ... not value for money