Cozy Japan Vol. 21

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Cozy Japan Vol. 21: School Days & Classrooms — Bold & Easy Coloring Book

Created in Japan, by a Japanese author and a Japanese publisher — spend one cozy day at a Japanese school: the morning classroom with its big smiling blackboard and rows of desks, shoe lockers and attendance books, microscopes and prisms in the science room, pianos and easels in the music and art rooms, school lunch with its milk bottles, the gym and the sunny schoolyard, club rooms in the sunset, and the whole school quiet under the night sky. One whole school day, one page at a time!

This twenty-first volume lives entirely at school: blackboards, desk rows and pencil cases; science experiments, fossils and a classroom aquarium; keyboard harmonicas, xylophones and drying art prints; lunch trays, vaulting boxes and jungle gyms; bicycles, telescopes and shogi boards after class; and the lit windows of the schoolhouse at dusk. (Earlier volumes showed school things only as a few small props inside other themes; this volume makes the Japanese school itself the theme. Unlike heavy, detailed adult coloring books, every page here is bold and easy.)

All 100 pictures are brand new — nothing is repeated from Vol. 1 through Vol. 20. Every picture is drawn with bold, thick lines and big, simple shapes — no tiny details, no stress. Even the evening and night scenes are drawn bright on white paper, so you can color them in any colors you love. Perfect for beginners, kids, seniors, teachers, and anyone who colors to relax and unwind.

Learn Japanese while you color! Every picture shows its English name, its Japanese name, and how to pronounce it. By the last page you will know 100 school words — kokuban, tsukue, randoseru, kyuushoku, tobibako, kenbikyou and more — without even trying.

Find the tiny randoseru! One tiny randoseru — the classic Japanese school backpack — keeps appearing all through the book: smiling on a classroom desk, resting beside the microscope, sitting by the piano, hiding under the jungle gym, waiting at the school gate, glowing under the desk lamp, and saying goodnight at the end. It appears on 7 pages (pages 24, 44, 64, 76, 84, 101 and 104). Can you spot it every time?

Why this book? 100 pictures — 2.5 times the 40 pages of standard coloring books, all in one connected cozy school day Bold & easy: thick lines, large areas, friendly faces — plus small background motifs for a little extra coloring joy Japanese + English names on every page (a feature cozy coloring books usually don't have) Five chapters = one school day: In the Classroom / Science & Curious Things / Music & Art Time / Lunch, Gym & the Schoolyard / After School & Goodnight Color test page included — try your pens before you start Made in Japan: written and published in Japan by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, author Aki Wakamatsu

Print your favorite pages again and again, color at your own pace, and enjoy a warm, cozy day at school in Japan.