Colour. Laugh. Learn. Why MAD ANIMALS® Is More Than a Colouring Book
Today marks an exciting new chapter for Safari Thomas with the arrival of two wonderfully bonkers new colouring books: MAD ANIMALS®: Totally Bonkers and MAD ANIMALS®: Seriously Silly. Created for children aged 4+, the books are designed around one simple idea: Colour. Laugh. Learn.
Because colouring books can be about much more than simply staying inside the lines.
Colour
Colouring gives children the chance to slow down, concentrate, make their own creative choices and enjoy some screen-free time.
But the animals in MAD ANIMALS® are not always behaving quite as you might expect.
You might find an animal doing something completely ridiculous, looking particularly pleased with itself or getting involved in an adventure no sensible animal would ever attempt.
That is all part of the fun.
Across the two books, there are 50 different animals to discover and colour, with big pages designed to encourage children to make each picture their own.
Laugh
Every animal is accompanied by its own Mad Joke.
Some are silly.
Some are groan-worthy.
And some may result in children repeating them to everyone they meet for the rest of the day.
For example:
What do you get when you cross a fish with an elephant?
Swimming trunks!
Learn
Alongside every Mad Joke is a Mad Fact about the real animal.
So while children are busy colouring and giggling, they are also discovering something new about wildlife.
That might be an unusual behaviour, an amazing ability, or a fact about an animal they have never heard before.
The learning is deliberately woven into the fun rather than presented like a lesson.
And that is really what Colour. Laugh. Learn. means.
Children can enjoy being creative, laugh at something wonderfully silly, and finish the page knowing something they did not know before.
50 Animals. 50 Mad Jokes. 50 Mad Facts.
Each MAD ANIMALS® book contains:
25 animals to colour
25 Mad Jokes
25 Mad Facts
Put Totally Bonkers and Seriously Silly together and that means 50 animals, 50 jokes and 50 fascinating animal facts to explore.
See MAD ANIMALS® in action
Colouring, giggling and discovering some seriously silly animals.
Meet the two MAD ANIMALS® books
MAD ANIMALS®: Totally Bonkers
From elephants to crocodiles, Totally Bonkers introduces children to 25 wonderfully silly animals, each with something to colour, something to laugh about and something new to discover.
and its seriously silly companion...
MAD ANIMALS®: Seriously Silly
The madness continues with another 25 animals, including guinea pigs, gorillas and plenty more creatures behaving in ways nature almost certainly never intended.
Both books are suitable for ages 4+ and are available now.
Why I created MAD ANIMALS®
MAD ANIMALS® is deliberately different from The Lamb Gang stories, but there is a common thread running through both.
I want children to enjoy animals. To become curious about them. To discover things about the natural world. And, most importantly, to have fun while they are doing it.
Sometimes learning happens best when nobody has announced that it is time to learn.
Sometimes it starts with a coloured pencil, a ridiculous animal and a very bad joke.
Colour. Laugh. Learn.
That's MAD ANIMALS®.
Safari Thomas
Children's Author • Planet Protector Creator of The Lamb Gang & MAD ANIMALS®
MAD ANIMALS® is a UK registered trade mark of Earth Life Press Limited.
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