Downtime Kids Elegant Flowers

Here the flowers get younger without getting simpler in spirit — a rose is still a rose, just drawn so a six-year-old can meet it on friendly terms. Fifty blooms, one to a page, come stripped down to their clearest shapes: wide petals, plain stems, leaves with room enough for a whole box of crayons to land inside the lines. Sunflowers and tulips share space with odder specimens — spiky, drooping, oddly shaped things a child might not know the name of yet — so there is always something a little new to look at. Nothing here needs to be identified correctly or colored the "right" way; the point is a page that holds still long enough to be enjoyed. Grown-ups working the adult companion next door are coloring the same fifty flowers, just with more veins to worry about, which makes for good company across the table on a slow afternoon.