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Panda in Japan

Coloringbook for kids and adults

A panda with a backpack and a very relaxed attitude to travel wanders through thirty-five of Japan's best-known places, and you get to colour every one of them. Each page is a single full scene: Mount Fuji behind cherry blossom, the torii gates of Fushimi Inari, Himeji Castle, the deer of Nara, a snowy Sapporo festival, a bowl of ramen at a counter, and a kotatsu to hide under when the day is done. The same little panda turns up in every drawing, so the book reads like one journey rather than a pile of pictures. Inside this book: • 35 hand-drawn black-and-white scenes of real Japanese places • One scene per page, with a blank back so colour cannot spoil the next picture • An illustrated index listing every place and the region it is in • Four previews on the back cover so you can see the style before you buy • A5 trim (148 × 210 mm) — small enough to pack, big enough to colour comfortably Pages are printed single-sided on white paper and work well with coloured pencils, fine-liner pens and markers. Slip a sheet of scrap paper behind the page if you are using anything wet. Made for anyone who likes colouring and likes Japan: children working through their first detailed pages, adults who want something calmer than a screen, travellers between trips, and anyone who has ever come home from Japan and missed it. Pick a page, pick a colour, and go.

Genres

Coloring BooksHobbies

ISBN

9798908580885

Format

Print / Paperback

Contributor

L. Pandaa

Illustrator

I'm a teacher, and I've drawn in the margins of things for as long as I can remember — staff meeting notes, museum tickets, the back of a menu, the inside cover of a book I was supposed to be reading. The panda comes from an old nickname. I sketched a small, unbothered bear waiting on a train platform somewhere between two cities, and then it kept turning up: in the next drawing, and the one after that. It was never planned as a character. It just refused to leave. Panda Passport is where those sketches ended up. Each book takes one country, chooses thirty-five real places — the famous ones and the ones you have to be told about — and puts the same panda in every scene. I draw them by hand, one at a time, with shapes generous enough for a child and detail enough for an adult. I care a lot about the index. Every place is listed with the region it's in, so the book works as a small atlas as well as a coloring book: you can find a page, then find the place on a map. I like the idea of a child coloring the deer of Nara and then asking where Nara is. I live in Tilburg and have been teaching for 8 years. When I'm not in a classroom I'm usually planning the next trip, or drawing it. The next country is already half-sketched.