Rooms of Wonder: Step Inside This Magical Coloring Book Paperback – Coloring Book, October 25, 2022

Super cute book, with beautiful illustrations and plenty of detail. I love her books and have almost all of them. They are so fun to color in with high quality paper that does not bleed through. My favorite coloring medium is glitter gel pens and even my juiciest pens do not bleed through. I do wish the pages were one sided though, I hate when there is a picture on both sides of the page. It's harder to color and if there was any bleed through, it would ruin the other side of the page.

THE BEST! I own all of Johanna Basford's fabulous coloring books and love them all. But this one is my absolute favorite.... I even ordered a second copy for myself to have when my original is all colored! Every picture is detailed (but not too intricate) and so interesting to color. I love all of the fun, whimsical pictures! I never get tired of using this book. If you want the best of Johanna Basford, buy this one! I love it!!

Another beautiful illustrated coloring book by Johanna basford. It has double images on the pages so I would recommend testing any medium other than color pencils on the back pages to make sure they don't bleed through. They are charming illustrations very highly detailed there are occasional wallpaper pages. The paper is good quality. The outlines are in dark blacks so it makes it easy to see. I recommend 16 and over because of the details in the illustrations

The quality of the book is really well made, I'm so happy to find something so cute and detailed to color!

Beautiful well made pictures but printed on both sides so you have to choose which side to display but I still have 5 stars for the details.

*Images: I love that this is filled with many wonderfully fun, different rooms to explore. It's just so relaxing to spend time in each room getting lost in the adventure. What a joy!The images are fairly intricate but not so much that you can't get good shading and blends on many of the pages. There are still some images that are so tiny blending/shading would be impossible. I love those pages that don't have rooms but have separate images to color for when time is short. I just have to say though, I really dislike the wallpaper, mandela and filler pages. As always, the images are printed on both sides of the page making alcohol markers unusable unless one doesn't mind sacrificing a page or even 2 if you don't use blotter paper in between. (I do think this less toothy paper would be a pleasure to use with alcohol markers, especially the bullet nib kind.)Printing: I know that Basford's most recent book had some printing issues, but this book does not have the double lines at all. Those errors seem to be contained to a batch or 2 in the Small Victories book. (I'm waiting until those issues are ironed out before purchasing.)*Paper: I prefer Joann's older creamy, toothy paper, but the quality of this paper is quite good too. She said her usual paper became unavailable so she chose the same paper used in the Kerby Rosanes' books. As you can see in the photo above, I tried many different brands and media to test on the paper. I preferred Polychromos and other oil based colored pencils, like Pablo & Koh-i-noir, on this paper over the creamier wax based brands, like Prisma & Black Widow. I didn't do a lot of layers because the size of the images were too small, but I did do some burnishing and erasing without any issues. The paper held up well to multiple techniques. The Arteza Real Brush Pens and Ohuhu water based markers either bled through or ghosted. I was able to use watercolor pencils with small amounts of water without any buckling of the paper at all, but I did keep the water to a minimal dampness.Value: I bought on a 3 for 2 sale so I got a it at a great price point.*Overall: This is a fun book, in Basford's typical classy and imaginative style. I love it.*Note: I subtracted 1/2 star for paper and 1/2 star for filler, wallpaper type images.

I like Johanna Basfords books and the paper is nice for colored pencil. Intricate drawings. Two sided so not good for markers.

Love, love, love this coloring book! Author definitely paid attention to details and by doing so made it really fun and relaxing to color!