Some of the images are scenes, others are patterns, and others are random collections of objects like a double page spread showing Harry’s scarf, scar and glasses. There are also lots of images of objects and magical creatures as well as references to each of the houses including their crests and emblematic animals. A number of poster-style images are included of adverts for the Quidditch World Cup and for The Quibbler.

The images themselves include many stills from the films which are drawn very realistically so it’s very obvious who each character is and they look just like the actors in costume playing them. You may not fancy the off-white, yellowy colour and neither did I but actually it looks quite like parchment so it’s less of a disappointment than you’d expect. However, it’s great paper for pencils and despite having almost no tooth, I found it really easy to blend and shade using my coloured pencils. The book contains 96 pages which are printed double-sided and, as mentioned before, the paper (at least in my copy) isn’t suitable for water-based pens and only suits pencils. The images are a mixture of single and double-page spreads with many of the single pages having a thin border meaning that they’re not lost into the spine. This book is paperback with a glossy accented cover and a gold spine, it’s A4 in size and has a glue-bound spine meaning that a little of each image is lost into the spine. Grab your time-turner, set it spinning and go back in time to relive all of the books and films from the very first one.

Now that issue has been addressed, I can get on with the review in the usual way. Water-based pens bleed through on my copy so this is definitely a pencil only book and Amazon suggest this too. My copy is ‘off-white’, in reality it’s very yellowy and the paper is thin and smooth. I’d suggest, if you’re bothered about paper colour and quality to get your copy from a book shop if you possibly can, if like me, you’re housebound, I’m afraid you’ll be at the mercy of random luck. Amazon state that you cannot choose which type of paper you’ll get so it’s pot luck. Sorry about this but there’s nothing I can do about it as I can’t get all of the different types of copies. This means that my review will not be representative of all copies. The paper thickness apparently varies too.

According to Amazon UK, the paper for this book is supplied by multiple sources meaning some copies have white pages and others have off-white pages. Before I get on with the rest of the review I need to mention the paper in this book. Harry Potter Colouring Book is published by Studio Press and is from my personal collection. Disclaimer – Please read this disclosure about my use of affiliate links which are contained within this post.

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