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|author=Paul Jarvis

|title=British Airways Colouring Book

|rating=4

|genre=Crafts

|summary=Over the past couple of years we've seen a lot of colouring books: flowers, patterns, fantasy creatures, characters and settings from television shows, films and books and lots more, but I can't recollect that we've ever before had one which featured a ''company''. Mind you, British Airways, is rather special; iconic and rather more long lasting than most passing celebrities. It has ''heritage'' and ''tradition''. The ''British Airways Colouring Book'' is based on exclusive posters, photographs and artwork from the company's archives and the 46 images allow the reader to recreate these as they wish. There's a bonus too: on the facing page of each image there's a potted history. I passed the book to someone with an interest in BA and he found the book interesting and informative ''without'' even thinking of doing any colouring.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566612X</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author=Rebecca Jones

|summary=Johanna Basford was not the first, and nor was she an overnight success. If you're salivating over the ''Enchanted Forest'', having finished her ''Secret Garden'', you are one of those many people indulging in the new/old hobby of adult colouring-in (adult perhaps only because her titles smack more of soft erotica than colouring-in books). The hobby is rapidly killing off Sudoku as the pastime of choice for many – either on the train or sitting with half an ear to the soaps. It's fun, it opens the mind to other thoughts in quite a meditative way, and it needs no instructions – much like, again, Sudoku, even if newspapers persist in telling us them even when nobody on earth is left to need them.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433287</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Lucy Engelman~~

~~|title=Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small (Field Guides)~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Crafts~~

|summary=Call me fuddy-duddy, but I have never seen the need to review a book via video – with Youtube and other sources becoming full of people giving their thoughts about the latest hot release the idea has never appealed to me, when there are also countless ways for one to share opinions by old-fashioned written word. That is, of course, until now, and the phenomenon that is building rapidly – that of mature colouring-in books. Here at the Bookbag we can easily prove we've read every word of the books by being eloquent, informative and opinionated about what we examine, but even I admit four paragraphs regarding a picture book we ourselves have to finish off may leave some members of our audience wanting to see the results.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780635X</amazonuk>~~

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