Ever since I was a little girl, I loved coloring. My kids and I now love coloring together. I find coloring in my adult coloring books while my children color in their own extremely relaxing and just plain fun. When recently offered the chance to review five coloring books from Suzy Toronto in exchange for my honest opinion, I eagerly accepted the opportunity. I received Tingle Boots Coloring Book, Friendship Coloring Book, Color Sisterhood Coloring Book, Inspiration & Encouragement Coloring Book, and Light & Laughter Coloring Book.
Creator
Suzy Toronto is a best-selling artist and writer whose distinctive artwork and inspiring words celebrate life, family, and the special bond between girlfriends. For two decades, her artwork and humorous wisdom have been popular gift items. Her signature drawings of madcap women with wild hair and brightly colored attire adorn greeting cards, calendars, bookmarks, magnets, and more. She is the author of ten books including The Sacred Sisterhood of Wonderful Wacky Women and Live a Life Worth Loving. She also has five grown children and fourteen grandchildren. Follow Suzy on her website and through Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.
Price and Design
All five coloring books have earned the DO Magazine Artist Fair Trade Seal of Approval. The books also include handy guides to coloring techniques like patterning, combinations, and shading as well as beautifully colored examples and ready-to-use color palettes. Each design is printed on one side only of archival-grade, acid-free, 200-year paper. Perforated pages detach easily for gifting or display.
Tingle Boots Coloring Book
The 80-page Tingle Boots Coloring Book currently costs $7.40 on Amazon with a list price of $9.99. If a new pair of boots makes your heart tingle and your spirit soar, Tingle Boots is the coloring book for you. The fun and distinctive illustrations will inspire you to be brave, be strong, and live a life worth coloring.
Friendship Coloring Book
The 80-page Friendship Coloring Book currently costs $7.41 on Amazon with a list price of $9.99. Celebrate the gift of unconditional and unending friendship with the empowering coloring book full of uplifting words and delightfully zany characters that encourage you to live a life worth coloring and stand for all that is good and right in the world. The fun and distinctive illustrations will inspire you to get out of your comfort zone, go with the flow, and dare to live a full and wacky life no matter what comes your way.
Color Sisterhood Coloring Book
The 80-page Color Sisterhood Coloring Book currently costs $9.22 on Amazon. The inspiring and empowering coloring book celebrates the power of sisterhood with bold sisters, friends, daughters, and mothers who always rise to the occasion despite overwhelming odds. The fun and distinctive illustrations inspire you to get out of your comfort zone, go with the flow, and dare to live a full and wacky life no matter what comes your way.
Inspiration & Encouragement Coloring Book
The 80-page Inspiration & Encouragement Coloring Book currently costs $7.18 on Amazon with a list price of $9.99. The inspirational and empowering coloring book celebrates the bravery needed to be authentic and what igniting your passion and making each day ridiculously amazing means. The uplifting words and delightfully zany characters encourage you to live a wacky life no matter what comes your way. After all, there can be no rainbows without rain!
Light & Laughter Coloring Book
The 80-page Light & Laughter Coloring Book currently costs $7.28 on Amazon with a list price of $9.99. The light-hearted coloring book affirms that breaking the rules to stay true to ourselves is okay. Toronto encourages us to stop pretending to be normal but instead embrace the wonderful, wacky women that we truly are and live a life worth coloring. The fun book encourages you to reach outside your comfort zone, embrace every moment with passion, and always color outside the lines.
Evaluation
What I love most about the five coloring books from Suzy Toronto that I received is the call to embrace wackiness. All of my adult coloring books, I have the most fun with the silly and irreverent. As a lover of footwear, Tingle Boots Coloring Book is by far my favorite of the five, but the other four are just as great. I love the humor, wackiness, and just plain fun in the designs to color throughout each book. I also love reading the snippets and little sayings that accompany each picture. I am going to have a lot of fun with these coloring books over the next few months!
I also love that each coloring page has been printed one-sided on a separate sheet of paper. Of all my art materials, I like coloring with markers the most. I also love using gel pens. Unfortunately, I cannot use markers or gel pens in coloring books in which the designs are printed on both sides of each sheet because the markers and pens bleed through to the opposite side. I was thus excited to discover that I could use all five of my Suzy Toronto coloring books without bleed-through. The single-sided pictures to color are a huge plus for me!
In addition to the one-sided pages to color, I love the wacky and zany designs to color. You have to smile when you work on any of the pictures in these five coloring books! I also appreciate the addition of the handy guides to coloring techniques like patterning, combinations, and shading as well as beautifully colored examples and ready-to-use color palettes. For beginners to the adult coloring book world, the extras are a nice little added touch not found in most other books.
Final Verdict
If you are a fan of adult coloring books, I highly recommend Tingle Boots Coloring Book, Friendship Coloring Book, Color Sisterhood Coloring Book, Inspiration & Encouragement Coloring Book, and Light & Laughter Coloring Book from Suzy Toronto. Each coloring book offers fun and distinctive illustrations printed one-sided on acid-free paper. I love the humor, wackiness, and just plain fun in the designs to color throughout each book. The little sayings and snippets of text with each picture also make me smile and just plain brighten my day. For a life worth coloring, embrace wackiness with coloring books from Suzy Toronto.
Purchase Tingle Boots Coloring Book, Friendship Coloring Book, Color Sisterhood Coloring Book, Inspiration & Encouragement Coloring Book, and Light & Laughter Coloring Book on Amazon via my affiliate links.
Image Credits
Embrace Wackiness with Coloring Books from Suzy Toronto © 2017 Heather Johnson
Coloring Books from Suzy Toronto © 2017 Heather Johnson
Cover of Tingle Boots Coloring Book © 2017 Heather Johnson
Page of Tingle Boots Coloring Book © 2017 Heather Johnson
Cover of Friendship Coloring Book © 2017 Heather Johnson
Page of Friendship Coloring Book © 2017 Heather Johnson
Cover of Color Sisterhood Coloring Book © 2017 Heather Johnson
Page of Color Sisterhood Coloring Book © 2017 Heather Johnson
Cover of Inspiration & Encouragement Coloring Book © 2017 Heather Johnson
Page of Inspiration & Encouragement Coloring Book © 2017 Heather Johnson
Cover of Light & Laughter Coloring Book © 2017 Heather Johnson
Page of Light & Laughter Coloring Book © 2017 Heather Johnson
