Eva CarriereJourney to the Stars: A Coloring Book: Galaxies, Nebulae, Planets, and More: An epically fun and educational outer space coloring book with 70 ... spacecrafts, and amazing science facts

Epically fun? Yes! Educational? For sure! Hubble-tastic? Absolutely! This coloring book will satisfy every Hubble devotee! Most of these beautiful illustrations are based on Hubble images, and all are done in such a user-friendly way that even I - Hubble enthusiast but not an artist - can color them. And guess what? Maybe my color choices and yours aren’t inferior after all. “The gorgeous images we see from Hubble don’t pop out of the telescope looking like they do when you view them on the web. Hubble images are all false color – meaning they start out as black and white, and are then colored. Most often this is to highlight interesting features of the object in the image, as well as to make the data more meaningful. Sometimes colors are chosen to make them look as our eyes would see them, called “natural color,” but not always.” (Nasa website article about created color in the Hubble image, titled “The Truth About Hubble, JWST, And False Color”). So there you go. Author Eva Carriere is right when she says, on the back cover: “There’s no wrong way to color a star.”I'll keep uploading images as I finish coloring - I use Derwent Colorsoft pencils, the 72 pack is my favorite. I'm uploading images from friends who are coloring them too. I have now learned that if you leave the center of a little star untouched and white, the surrounding yellow pencil color gives the effect of a true star glow.Note: as near as I can tell, there are about 9 great vintage spacecraft in the book (and a few whimsical astronauts). The author has humorous touches throughout, even a Dr. Who Tardis hidden (hunt for it!), so you can tell this book doesn’t take itself THAT seriously. (This is great, the pressure is totally off the colorist... you can be a kid and have fun). However, there’s a rewarding amount of fact and fun throughout the book, so that if you get this for your budding astronaut, they’ll learn a respectable amount about the dozens of nebulae and galaxies that are abundantly colorable in this volume.Kudos to the author!

I also wish I had known the pages are black except for the basic images. Really limits how creative you can get with this. All the pages have streaks going vertically through them as well. Will probably toss or donate.

One of two coloring books I could find that had real pics of nebulae. Single pages pics. Every picture is on black background. It makes sense,...cut you know space is black. I just wish I had the option of print black or not.

What a wonderful surprise when I opened this book! Journey to the Stars is a unique coloring book for astronomers or anyone inspired by images from planets, nebulae, and galaxies. Each illustration is intricately and delicately recreated, accompanied by an educational paragraph. This book reveals a gifted, sensitive artist inviting your imagination to visualize these sketches in living color. Prepare for blast-off, then start the interactive coloring process! What a great trip. I highly recommend this book!

It’s a cool book. Very informative if you love space like I do. However, I had to google pictures because I wanted the picture to somewhat resemble the real thing even though imagination has no rules. Not what I expected.

Bought this for my 5 year old grandson who is space crazy but it just wasn't as fun as I expected.He is really smart and appreciates authentic space pictures to color however this just didn't do the trick for me. Not worth the money. Plus our copy came looking like it had been roughed up. I needed to ship it to Japan promptly to my grandson or I would have sent it back.

Very educational and fascinating, especially helpful for the homeschooling family. Not only is it an amazing experience to color a galaxy or a nebula, it's a reference book for schooling that deserves a place on the shelf just for study. Provides a real sense of wonder for creation.

Every page looks like a cheap zerox copy.