{"id":52938,"date":"2014-11-13T00:09:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T08:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=52938"},"modified":"2014-11-13T00:09:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T08:09:07","slug":"secret-garden-coloring-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/52938","title":{"rendered":"Secret Garden Coloring Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI just wandered upon the most intriguing book. Only this book is not intended for mere reading<\/i>. Not at all. In fact, it’s\u00a0enchantingly interactive<\/i>, a meditative marvel for the gardener whose hands feel unproductive this time of year. I feel myself being drawn in just by looking at the cover, don’t you?<\/p>\n

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Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the book’s title is Secret Garden<\/i>, but it is not Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic.<\/a>\u00a0This nouveau garden grew, page by page, in the hands of Scottish self-proclaimed “ink evangelist” Johanna Basford<\/a>, who subtitled her lush botanical adventure, An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book<\/i>.<\/p>\n

“Go on a ramble through a world of secret gardens created in beautifully detailed pen-and-ink illustrations\u2014all waiting to be brought to life through coloring, but each also sheltering all kinds of tiny creatures just waiting to be found,” reads the book’s back cover. “And there are also bits of the garden that still need to be completed by your hand.”<\/p>\n

Lest you dismiss Secret Garden’s<\/i> peek-a-boo puzzles and mind-twisting mazes and as a “kids-only” kind of undertaking, watch this:<\/p>\n