Two Books! One Drawing! One Winner!
Enter a giveaway drawing to win a copy each of my two new books, LET’S COLOR TOGETHER: A SHAREABLE COLORING BOOK FOR PARENTS AND KIDS, a coloring book from Sourcebooks featuring complex and more open versions of the same image on each spread, to suit every coloring ability, and CROW MADE A FRIEND, an early reader picture book from the award winning I Like to Read series from Holiday House.
Here’s how to enter:
In the comments below, type a coloring memory from past or present. It can be a positive or a negative memory. For example, you could say “I loved coloring on the front porch with my grandmother when I was a kid” or “Coloring on the giant coloring mural at the Book Expo was amazing,” or “Coloring with friends at my best friend’s bridal shower coloring party was awesome until I knocked over the red wine…” Okay? Everyone who enters a comment will be entered in a drawing to win both books! There will be ONE lucky winner!
The drawing will be on SATURDAY, JUNE 4TH, so enter your comments to win by midnight, Friday, June 3rd.
I’ll start by telling you a bad memory and a good memory (though I won’t enter to win my own books!):
The bad: In second grade, my classmates and I were coloring a paper mural to hang in the hallway of our school about our field trip to Carriage Hill Farm. We drew the whole mural in pencil and the teacher inked it with black lines for us to color in. I was assigned coloring the grass. I colored the grass like it grows, especially at a farm–shaggy, and up and down–and my classmates were horrified. Didn’t I know that grass grows sideways, neatly, in long horizontal lines???
The good: I loved coloring with my mother when I was a kid. She picked out coloring books that featured girls wearing various outfits, and those were my favorites–deciding what clothing color combinations would look best. My favorite coloring book was about a girl getting ready for a trip, and all the different outfits she packed.
YOU don’t have to tell BOTH a good and a bad memory to be entered, and you don’t have to tell a long story. It can be three words. Or twenty! Or more!
I love coloring together with my 5 year old daughter is loves art and is always doing art during her free time.
One day when I was quite young I discovered the perfect canvas for my coloring art– the back of my mom’s off-white, upholstered chair in the living room. It was perfect –I could stand up and color just like a real artist. I was very proud of my masterpiece, but when I revealed it to my mom I did not get the reaction I had expected! Instead of praising me, she was very mad. She had to keep the chair up against the wall for the next 10 years!
Oh, no! I would have been so tempted by the back of an off-white upholstered chair as well! Maybe even to this day!
I used to color with my dad. He always supported my artistic side and helped me to see the world differently than most people 🙂 He would draw a scribble on pieces of paper and have me make a drawing out of it, so much fun!
Hi Denise! What a cool thing to do w a kid–like drawing into inkblots. Is your dad an artist himself?
When I was 12 my grandparents gave me a box of oversized drawings of dolls to be colored-in. I just LOVED them, and it has always been one of my favorite gifts.
That sounds wonderful. Were they like paper dolls?
I loved writing stories in first grade for Mrs. Lewis and then illustrating/coloring them. She would also tape them on the classroom wall. Now I color to relax and to use my creativity through the use of choosing colors.
Hi Elaine! What coloring books for adults do you like best–and what sorts of things? I have friends who like to color patterns/designs, some that like flowers, some mandalas, some scenes.
I remember coloring outside the lines.
You and me both!
I am running a coloring club for adults at my public library this year and I love it! It is so satisfying to see this small group of folks enjoy themselves for a couple of hours each month.
I just recently started coloring and it leaves me at such peace it’s amazing!