cover image Rosie Flo’s Coloring Book; Rosie Flo’s Animals Coloring Book; Rosie Flo’s Garden Coloring Book

Rosie Flo’s Coloring Book; Rosie Flo’s Animals Coloring Book; Rosie Flo’s Garden Coloring Book

Roz Streeten, . . Chronicle, $8.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8118-6619-4

Resembling the wardrobe for a paper doll collection, the line drawings in these three books are of dresses—dresses paired with shoes or crowns; dresses shown alongside a table bearing petits fours. “Just add heads, legs, and arms” read the covers of these small-format paperbacks; most readers will also want to fill in the scenery, write dialogue balloons and, especially, get to work coloring in those fantastically patterned frocks. Animals and Garden do not, as their titles might suggest, change the subject: animals inspire the gowns in Animals (e.g., a pair of giraffe-patterned thigh-high boots complements a giraffe-patterned tunic and purse); as seen in Garden , a floor-length skirt with a cactus texture could come in handy on a crowded school bus or subway. Ages 8–up. (Mar.)