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|author=Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning
|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out the sort of lower-case, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a book. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointed. If you take it on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, then all well and good. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucasfilm
|title=Star Wars Art of Colouring The Force Awakens
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Without giving any spoilers away, the end of ''The Force Awakens'' sees a character and their peace interrupted. While said person probably has The Force to give them some restful ease, you never know what else they used. They may, for one, have dabbled in colouring-in books, and their much-lauded effect on the mind – that of calming it, and providing a meditative, simple yet creative task for it. Whether that is the case or not, there are books set in the ''Star Wars'' universe for people to join in in that way – and this is the best I've seen.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285796</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Katrina Pallant and Kate Rhodes
|title=Star Wars Make and Do
|rating=3
|genre=Crafts
|summary=For the right young mind, their favourite franchises just don't end with watching them once or twice and that's it. Given great characters they will want to write them into their own stories, or re-enact their dramas in the playground. If things get a bit more sedate, some of them can be convinced to sit diligently working on craft projects, which is where this book comes in. It latches on to the biggest names in the Star Wars universe, and allows you to either draw or create them, or both. But while the 'why don't you?' spirit is strong with this one, I remain unconvinced the results will please everyone.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279974</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Korn
|title=Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary='My intuition from the day I first picked up a hammer was that making things with a commitment to quality would lead to a good life,' Peter Korn writes. As an aimless, free-spirited University of Pennsylvania student, he moved to Nantucket Island to earn the rest of his college credits through independent study and happened to be offered a carpentry job. That arbitrary job choice at the age of twenty would come to define the rest of his career. Manual labour was all new to him, but 'from the start there was a mind/body wholeness to carpentry that put it way ahead of what I imagined office work to be.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784705063</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Warner Brothers
|title=Harry Potter: Magical Artefacts Colouring Book
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=With a big production film you can be almost overwhelmed by all that's there to see, but what most of us forget is that in the film-maker's archive there's an awful lot which we never get to see. ''Harry Potter: Magical Artefacts Colouring Book'' is packed with stunning pieces of artwork from the Warner Brothers archive, giving you the chance to colour the magic of J K Rowling's wizarding world. There are the props from the Harry Potter films: an enchanted map, a piece of jewellery that can turn back time, vials full of liquid memories and newspapers with moving photos. What an inventive brain that woman has!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783705922</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucasfilm
|title=Star Wars Rogue One: Art of Colouring
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=Colour me happy that ''Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' is around. While I've not had the chance of seeing it yet, I'm dead chuffed it takes place at a central point of the main arc of films' storylines, and not some nebulous place elsewhere in [[Star Wars: Galactic Atlas by Emil Fortune and Tim McDonagh|that galaxy far, far away]]. Yes, it does do what the 'new trilogy' did, and have much more gloss and many more technologies than the films set after it, but what is not to like? Well, the expected expenditure on tie-in books and articles, I guess – several hundred pounds on ''one'' collector's card is a little steep. But seeing as I handily mentioned colouring above, in the vernacular, why not take it literally and use this large format paperback, promising ''100 Images to Inspire Creativity''?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286377</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|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
|title=The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: A Year of Celebrations
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crafts
|summary=I enjoy colouring: I find it relaxing and satisfying, but most colouring books have one big snag for me. When you've finished, what use is what you've done? If I'm investing quite a bit of time in producing something, I like it to be useful. I'm a bit of a puritan about such matters! It was therefore something of a relief when I found ''The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: A Year of Celebrations'' - and before anyone starts to be pedantic about the title, you do get to colour the envelope too; in fact you colour the inside and the outside and all four faces of the cards. There are even some stickers for you to seal the envelope.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638564</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jody Revenson
|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The general perception is that to become a leading British actor, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch education. But you don't have to be an actor to make a great film. ''Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where the only thing natural is the performers' faces – everything else, even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computers. The eight ''Harry Potter'' films, also made in the UK, needed a lot of computing power as well, but also a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools and a keen eye. What better way to start training the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriff?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jody Revenson
|title=Incredibuilds: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Aragog the giant spider, don't you know, took six man years just to build, and weighed a ton. After countless trial models and pieces of visual design work, he could finally be constructed, and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio floor. Or, conversely, he is about seven inches long and seven wide, and you put him together in a day or two, for the cost of this book-and-gift set and some craft paints.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jody Revenson
|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=How do you create a house-elf like Dobby? Well, you have a tennis ball on a string, and point actors so they look at it, and say their lines to a pretty-much empty space. You then film Toby Jones doing the elf's lines, and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character to come from the digital realm in the ''Harry Potter'' films. You can throw in a few puppets, and now and again a gifted small person, particularly at the end of film #7… Or, of course, you can get this gift set, and press the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsill.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Vladimir Aleksic and Kate Ware
|title=Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Colouring Classic
|rating=4
|genre=Crafts
|summary=''A Christmas Carol'' has always been my favourite book by Charles Dickens. Perhaps it's the fact that it's a novella rather than the usual brick of a book, but the plotting has always seemed tighter and the story more fast moving. I also like to idea of Ebenezer Scrooge not so much getting his comeuppance as his seeing the error of his ways. I've read the book and seen numerous film adaptations - now I've had the opportunity to do some relaxing colouring of scenes from the classic story. Was it fun?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848695411</amazonuk>
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