Parents, if you think your children should be aware of something but don’t feel like explaining, not to worry! You can just shove a coloring book at them instead, because coloring books are the best way for children to learn. We admit, we were pretty surprised when we heard about Occupy, a 36-page coloring book about — you guessed it — the Occupy Wall Street movement that hit shelves yesterday. But with a little further investigation, we realize that we shouldn’t have been — inappropriate coloring books, from the political to the sexual to the just plain weird, are to be found all over. Some of these — The Gangsta Rap Coloring Book, for instance — are meant to be satirical, but others are woefully, awkwardly serious. Click through to see our list of incredibly inappropriate coloring books for children and adults, and let us know which would make you get your crayons out in the comments.
If you’ve been feeling a burning desire to get out the crayons and color in scenes of police officers surveying protestors at Zuccotti Park, Guy Fawkes-faced protesters carrying the Golden bull, or, um, Rachel Maddow and Bill O’Reilly, this is the book for you. And by the way you guys, no matter how much you try to push the “grown-up coloring book novel” angle, no one’s fooled. Coloring books are for children. Just like Occupy Wall Street, right guys?
Comments (21)
You were doing okay until the last sentence.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mohandas Gandhi
@skyhawk: that was sarcasm!
RIP Lenny Briscoe (Law and Order)
10 books, one per page? Kiss off losers, that ain’t the way to win fans.
[...] [toread] Flavorwire » 10 Really Inappropriate Coloring Books That Actually Exist – [...]
so much for factual journalism. your last sentence discredited the entire article…didn’t want to read anymore.
YEaaaah just got 15th prestige last nite on blackops i is playing tdm on nuketown and got tuns of xp sniping!!!!!!
Umm…the author knows that the vast majority of these are not really meant for kids, right?
Can’t believe you missed: The Bijou Cock Coloring Book by the legendary Steven Toushin.
Re: no one’s fooled. Coloring books are for children. Just like Occupy Wall Street, right guys?
No one’s fooled. Follow the link to the Occupy item and you find this Amazon description:
Occupy – A Grown-Up Coloring Book Novel [Paperback]
No one really needs the product description to conclude that many of these coloring books are ironic political statements intended for thinking people, whether children or adults.
In my view, the Occupy book is suitable and recommended for children as an antidote to the commercial and conformity-reinforcing propaganda that has been beamed at them from toddlerhood on.
Kids are not incapable of figuring out the score. There were quite a few of them demonstrating in Oakland.
What was your intent with this stupid slap at Occupy?
If it was to discredit yourselves as the uberhip cousins to redneck reactionaries,
you succeeded.
Yeah, Triton, this site hasn’t been supportive of OWS at all. No sirree.
The “Law & Order” coloring book sounds ideal for my family.
“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they keep laughing at you. Then they get bored of laughing at you and go back to ignoring you, until you do something even sillier so they start laughing at you again.” That’s how it works in the real world. (For example, Sarah Palin has gone through this cycle about ten times in the past few years…)
My 1st thought was, No way….
You forgot the Julian Assange Coloring Book!
Yay, women’s bodies are gross!
[...] photos (careful, may contain mild nudity.) * Wedding photo. * Overworked vehicles. * Inappropriate colouring books. * Toddlers rules. * An older London viewed from the back of a bus. * A quick tutorial for David [...]
[...] (careful, might enclose amiable nudity.) * Wedding photo. * Overworked vehicles. * Inappropriate colouring books. * Toddlers rules. * An comparison London noticed from a back of a bus. * A discerning educational [...]
[...] you ever use a coloring book as a tool to teach your children about the Tea Party or female anatomy? Flavorpill has compiled a list called “10 Really Inappropriate Coloring Books That Actually [...]
Hehe. This makes the Human Brain Coloring Book I have on my desk look *very* normal and sedate by comparison. Evidently I’m very sheltered – I hadn’t realised there were other ‘anatomy’ ones out there ;)
[...] their child’s next coloring book.The entire list compiled by Flavorwire can be seen on their blog. L. McMaken View all posts by L. McMaken Lindas website/**/var [...]
Post a new comment