while this one looks like fun, my money for raddest coloring book may have to go to Richard Prince:

http://www.artbook.com/9783865604927.html

or how about Animals of Iraq by Nick Manske:
http://www.nickmanske.com/aoi/

It's still a coloring book, and will have the same effect on kids. It's just a coloring book marketed to trend-sensitive hipster parents, in my opinion. I mean no disrespect to the creators of it. I just think that kids do well enough on their own if you just give them a blank piece of paper (or wall) and some markers and let them go.

Maybe the next David Hockney but looking at Damien Hirst's latest efforts one hopes not.
This is not an original idea.

I want to do that. lol

The Anti-Coloring Book
By Striker Susan
http://www.susanstriker.com/anticoloring.html

My money is still on this one….it’s the only series my daughter (now 14) colored in, and she is now attending an Arts Academy High School as a visual arts major. :)

Give them blank paper and make them create their own lines. Coloring books restrict creativity.

I’m 17 so I can remember colouring books pretty clearly… and I would’ve hated this. I loved colouring within the lines of pictures, but hated the bits when it gave you a space and you had to think of what you wanted to draw in it, like ‘create your own monster’ or whatever. What if I didn’t want to draw a monster? I left those pages blank, that or used it to draw something irrelevant. Create your own comic strip if fine if you have loads of imagination but most kids just want some plain paper.

Wow I would have loved this when I was a kid.
In fact still do want.

I’m attending SPU for art and I just used a blank piece of paper. I think I’d rather have a coloring book like this now than when I was a kid,

I think this is a very nice book for children, it lets them be creative, while also learning numbers and colors.

In this book, you’re trying to get kids to be really creative, but then you’re also asking the kids to morph their creative thoughts to fit into the restrictions you’ve given them. it’s like telling kids that instead of trying to put a square peg in a round hole, they should let their peg be whatever shape they want. except that it still has to fit into a slightly larger round hole.

this is the coolest thing that ever happened to the books.!!!!:)

I’m a fan of the classics.

Like the Cunt Coloring Book: http://www.lastgasp.com/d/1120/