Escape to Wonderland: A Colouring Book Adventure Paperback – 1 Oct. 2015

I brought this book at full price for my personal collection. I colour purely as a hobby, one that I put an incredible amount of time and effort in to.This is another beautiful book by Goodwives and Warriors and is the 1st in their "Escape To" series. At the time of posting there are currently 4 titles available. Escape to Wonderland, Escape to Christmas Past, Escape to Shakespeare's World and Escape to Oz. It is substantially smaller then your average colouring book at approximately 18.5cm x 18.5cm.Inside this book there are 65 illustrations. Approximately 37 single page illustrations and 28 double page spreads. Almost every illustration is drawn all the way in to the spine, I found the spine to be very tight and even after working it, it doesn't sit flat enough to be able to colour extremely close to it precisely.All the illustrations are printed double sided, using alcohol markers stains the next page. Water based markers left shadowing. However I had no problems with gel pens. The paper itself is non perforated, of medium quality with a slightly textured surface. I used a mix of Marco Raffines and Polychromos for most of the illustrations I've completed and found that multiple layers of pencil was difficult, as the tooth runs out quicker then I would of expected.The illustrations contained within the book are based on the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. A few of the original characters aren't included in the illustrations this includes the Mad Hatter, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle DumA large portion of the illustrations are animal oriented. There are also notable objects (such as the "drink me" shrinking potion), flora and food illustrations. You will also be able to recognise scenes from the original book. These include meeting the caterpillar, the croquet match and the caucus race. Interspersed throughout the illustrations are pre printed black elements. The thicker of these are used in a few scenes to illustrate a dark night sky. There are also quotes from the original book every few pages allowing you to follow Alice's story and understand how the illustration relates to Lewis Carroll's work.I honestly have nothing bad to say about any of Good Wives and Warriors Escape To series. You get an incredible amount of value for what you pay and the illustrations are so varied you can find almost any type of illustration within the pages. I've personally brought all 4 books from this series and love following a pictured version of a classic story.

I can't really fault this book. The images are a wonderful telling of a story most of us know and love. I particularly love the size format. It's about 7 inches square and to me feels so much less intimidating than the absolutely beautiful, but larger books of Millie Marotta and Joanna Basford. I swear the sheer size of a page in their gorgeous books that I of course own gives me an anxiety attack! I have this terrible urge to finish what I start in one sitting, which defeats the object of colouring to keep calm when I colour for hours and don't even make a dent in an image. But with this little gem I can at least see the fruits of my work. And I also like the fact that I don't have to try and finish an image off by drawing my own elements on it, which I don't really like much as I hate being told what to do. Escape To Wonderland has none of these drawbacks (pun unintended!).On to the quality of the book. The images are simply gorgeous with a range of complexity right through the book. The paper is lovely and smooth with an off white shade. It's thick enough not to show the printing through. It has a common downside with most other colouring books of the images being on both sides, so I've not risked using pen. But it takes any type of coloured pencil excellently. I've tried everything from cheap and cheerful Crayola to my few precious Faber Castell Polychromos and all lay down beautifully. In fact, I tend to stick to my cheaper pencils as it's a shame using my expensive art grade pencils colouring in as the end result is not that much different.

I was aware that this was smaller than most colouring books (just over 7 inches square) and that was one of the reasons I bought it: perfect for my caravan. The cover gives a good idea of what to expect - both in content and style. Some drawings are single sided and some are on both sides of the paper, and do disappear into the spine of the book, but with plenty of working it is possible to get the book to lie almost flat and so only a little of the picture is lost.I would say paper quality is medium, suitable for gel pens and pencils. Layering is possible, but the paper doesn't take too many layers.The illustrations are lovely and follow the story of Alice, there are even quotes from the book. Not all the main characters are shown, but the book tells the story well and brought out the magic of the tale. There are plenty of flowers and animals and lots of nostalgia. Alice in Wonderland has always been one of my favourites and this lovely book helps to bring back the enchantment of the story.Well worth the money and highly recommended.

Its a lovely coloring book with beautiful illustrations but the size is disappointing i Was expecting it to be bigger its about the size of my hand.

I bought this as the pictures are just so good to colour. It’s a good size too. My favourite books are the good wives and warriors. I got them all apart from Wizard of Oz but that’s nothing to do with the book it’s me, I hate that film. Paper is of excellent quality. I just love them.