Never too old for crayons

Colouring books for adults are helping people loosen up and rediscover their childhood

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Before we learn to read or write, we learn to draw and paint. But as we grow older, most of us stop playing with colours and let what is more pressing take over. Now, a spate of colouring books for adults is encouraging grown-ups to momentarily escape from the humdrum of everyday life and reconnect with the child in them. It all started in 2013, when Scottish illustrator Johanna Basford published Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book. Hidden in its black and white pages is a list to creatures be found: beetles, songbirds, butterflies and sharks. The book has since ...

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Never too old for crayons