Harry Potter Paint with Water

Beautiful pictures. Easy to use. Fun to do. Great gift.

As a kid I loved paint with water books - this is next level. Highly recommended. Just be aware, the entire book is not paint with water, only certain pages. The only downside is that it gives you a key of how to tell which are which (color, or paint) but then they never put the corresponding symbols on each page - oopsie! So you kind of have to recognize which are which by sight, but still worth the purchase!

I like how it includes both watercolor and coloring. I have enjoyed it so far. I may buy some more.

The book itself is really pretty and sturdy, much nicer than the paint with water books I had growing up. It also comes with a paintbrush, and the back cover has a flap that you put behind the page you're painting on to protect the pages behind it. It's a bit smaller than a B5 or composition notebook, to give you an idea of size. The images are positioned landscape (as opposed to portrait), so they're wider than they are tall. However the book doesn't lay flat but the pages are perforated. The binding on mine was a bit off and it took a lot of careful bending and pressing and careful pulling, and I still ripped a page I tested. The back flap has a key with tiny icons to show which pages are for coloring and which are paint with water, however it's hard to tell which images they represent as they're rather small, and the icons are in color and the pages themselves are black and white. There is tiny, unreadable print that appears to list page numbers under the images, but the pages themselves don't have numbers. Really the best way to tell the paint by water and plain coloring images apart is the thickness of the lines of the drawings. The regular coloring pages have thin lines, the paint by water pages, have thick black lines (that contain the paint). I haven't tried painting or coloring yet, as the book is so nice, I'm afraid to mess it up. Just after I bought this book, if you're looking for more paint by water books... I saw a review for a company called Usborne that makes "Magic Painting" books, I believe these have perforated pages you can tear out. I think they also come with brushes and a back cover flat that protects the pages under the one you're painting on. I'm curious how they compare, though they seem designed for younger kids and obviously aren't HP themed (seems like Thunder Bay has rights to publish HP), but they seem cute too. I think they only have about 15 images to paint, even though it says they are 32 pages.

My 3 year old grandson loves this.

Love it. Tells a story. Cones with paint brush.

I wish there were more versions of the paint with water books. My daughter has done all of them. She absolutely loves them and make a great gift for a teenager that loves art.

Good quality. Comes with paint brush

Good book for anybody especially Harry Potter lovers Very good quality