Review: Doodle Lit
According to Jennifer Adams and Alison Oliver, doodling is “a simple form of being creative” that can “make you feel calm and relaxed,” so they’ve created Doodle Lit, a fantastic book to help kick start the inner doodler in you!
Doodle Lit is divided into sections by well-known authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Emily Bronte. The beginning of each section tells you a little about the author and features a doodle by them! All of the activities in the section are geared toward the author and their books – for example, in the Lewis Carroll section, you’re encouraged to draw new hats for the Mad Hatter. There are pages to doodle on, color on, and write on and there are even a few puzzles thrown in for fun.
This book features heavy duty paper and perforated pages so you can pull them out to work on them. Adams and Oliver encourage you to get creative with “pencils, paints, markers, and crayons” and “to cut things from magazines or add photos” or other items. Doodle Lit will provide hours of entertainment for anyone aged 8 and up and I highly recommend it.
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Review copy provided by Gibbs Smith. I am an Indiebound Affiliate.
Adorable idea to have literary inspirations!
This sounds like a great idea. I’ve been seriously considering ordering one of those adult coloring books to check them out. This sounds like it is along the same lines (no pun intended.)
Oh, this looks like fun!
I was a doodler in HS. I think I’ll look for this!
This looks so cool! I love that it combines doodling with famous authors.
This looks very cute! My sister would love it!
Looks cute 😀
OMG, Kathy – I need this book! As in, right now! I think it’s time for another book order …
This is adorable!
What a fun idea!
I saw this on Twitter; it is too cute!
Did you color any of it? I need this book!
I think I need to try this book out!
I was so disappointed it was recommended for 8year olds, I thought I’d treat myself . Maybe I’ll lie about my age.
This sounds like a great idea; I know several kids who’d love it.
@irene have you come across Keri Smith – his notebooks are lots of fun!
This sounds like a fun book! I used to doodle in my notebooks in high school (mostly crazy faces and such).
I find this interesting. I don’t think I doodle. Maybe I’m not creative. Or maybe I’m not calm and relaxed. Stressed and? I have a book, (seriously, I DO HAVE A BOOK) called “Illustrated journaling”. Kind of the same thing? I recently bought another book (really) called “More than Words; Illustrated letters”. I love the idea, but not sure you could make heads or tails if I sent you a letter with my drawings/doodles. I might have to buy this book.
What a cute idea! I’m not much of a doodler, so maybe this book would help!
This looks like SO much fun, and it sounds like something I might actually DO!
This looks so fun- I really like this new coloring/doodling trend for adults!
I love this doodle trend. My daughter loves creating dresses and other clothing items while waiting at appointments or in the car. I know she would love this! Thanks for sharing!
This sounds fun – what a cool idea for a book!
coloring and doodling has become such an adult ‘zen’ thing to do! i can’t wait to get started with my own copy of doodle lit!