The Anatomy Coloring Book

Should’ve looked more closely - “good” quality means that many of the pages are already colored in, defeating the entire purpose. Now I need to buy a new one (elsewhere…)

I bought this as a gift for a friend in massage therapy school back in February. Because I don't see her often, I didn't look too carefully when I got it. As I was getting ready to wrap it yesterday I noticed that two pages were already colored in. This doesn't match "like new" as far as I am concerned!

I thought I would get a normal coloring book with big pictures and space to coloer. Everything is very small next to the scientific description of the specific body part. It might be good for students anatomy but not for the normal person that just wants to color.

I took a chance & got lucky...there is only 1 page colored in mine. DK's "The Human Body Coloring Book" is better. Larger pictures & label lines to write in the names (the key tells you what to write & where). About this book...the pictures need to be bigger--a lot of them are going to be difficult to color. Coloring instructions are bad. A lot of useless words, but very few telling us what specific color to use. Great detail in each drawing, though! Great detail about the anatomy & physiology of each part. Tells us what they are & how they work.

Guess you can only buy new.

This coloring book is very extensive and does a very good job of presenting a very complex subject. Coloring is a great way to learn for tactile and visual learners. Very inexpensive given how full it is of valuable information.

Just when you thought they couldn't improve on the original, they keep making it better. The third edition contains all the strengths of the first two editions with dynamite new additions that will help all students of anatomy. Go down to your local hobby shop and buy the biggest set of felt tip pens you can find. After the book is colored, it should be kept as a quick reference book. You color the labels to match the illustrations, so it's easy to look back and spot the name of the muscle, bone, organ, etc. Make sure to read the section on HOW TO USE THIS BOOK before you begin coloring.As the owner of a massage therapy school, we use this book and Salvo's Massage Therapy: Principles and Practice as our two main texts. It is incredible for those who are visual learners. We highly recommend it.

This book is the best reference on the human body I've found! It focuses individually on each system, with large ready-to-color pages. This book list all bones and muscles in the human body (in the drawings, too) and reveals their locations. It goes into extreme detail about everything, and shows a fetal circulation diagram, which I have had trouble finding in other books. This book lists the view names (anterior, posterior, superior, ventral, etc.) and gives a diagram. It even spends some time talking about cells and tissues, with a colorable diagram of a cell. This book is a MUST for med students, and would make a great reference book for physicians. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in human anatomy, for I sure am enjoying it. Also check out "The Physiology Coloring Book, 2nd Edition". Note:For this book you should have a good supply of quality colored pencils, probably about 30, including gray and black.

I'm an 11th grader attending Norwich Free Academy currently taking AP anatomy & pysiology. This is one of those books, not required, but extrememely useful for surviving anatomy. With all the memorization, the coloring and written out labels w/ definitions, helps your out class grade so much. The visuals are so graphic and precise I find it has helped maintain a high gpa in the course. I would recommend this book for highschool & college anatomy students as well as for anatomy teachers. When the teachers print out the different coloring pages to assign for hw, as silly as it sounds, it infact helps w/ the whole physical concept. It is also a great break in between attempting Uconn Chemistry problems and reading about a bunch of dead guys in AP history. =P

I am an undergrad Pre-Med student, and I found that working with this book was a valuable resource for helping me to learn the parts of the body that I need to know. This book is laid out very well, and in addition to the outlines of the structures, provides brief summaries of their functions. I don't really know why this book helps ingrain the anatomy in one's brain, but my whole class purchased this book and we have found it extraordinarily helpful!!!!!!!