Grab your coloring implement of choice and get ready to go on a magical journey down an inky trail through a forgotten world of flora and fauna just waiting to be colored in.

“The colorists have a queen, and her name is Johanna Basford.” —New York Magazine

—FAMILY COLOR

CLUB KIT—

— W W W.JOH A N NA BA S F OR D.C OM —

MAGICAL JUNGLE: An Inky Expedition and Coloring Book • Johanna BasfordPenguin Books • On-sale August 9, 2016 • ISBN 9780143109006 • $16.95 • 10”x10”

1. Talk during coloring club.

2. Take your time. Coloring club is not a race.

3. Coloring club is not a competitive sport.

4. There are no bad colors.

5. There are no bad colorists.

6. You do not have to stay inside the lines.

7. Coloring is for everyone; at any age.

8. Collaborate! Working together is fun.

9. Add your own drawings, make the page your own.

10. Show off your creations.

Rules for Color Club

ROARKaty Perry

EYE OF THE TIGERSurvivor

MONKEY MANThe Rolling Stones

POOLS Glass Animals

ANIMALMiike Snow

TIGERABBA

JUNGLE LOVESteve Miller Band

THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHTThe Tokens

STRANDED IN THE JUNGLENew York Dolls

THE BARE NECESSITIESPhil Harris, Bruce Reitherman

RHYTHM IS GONNA GET YOUGloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine

JUNGLE BOOGIEKool & The Gang

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLEGuns N’ Roses

PlaylistJohanna says, “It’s important that your coloring sound track puts you in a happy mood and creates a sunny place for you to create your masterpiece.”

We compiled a special playlist to help let your creativity go wild. Listen to our MAGICAL JUNGLE playlist on Spotify.

— MONKEY POPS — Makes 24 small pops

These banana-chocolate “popsicles” are easy to make and fun to eat, and they even sneak in some healthy fruit! Make these before your coloring club arrives—they have to set in the freezer for at least 30 minutes before they’re ready to eat. (Inspired by Martha Stewart’s Chocolate Covered Bananas)

WHAT YOU’LL NEED: • 8 ripe but firm bananas, each peeled and cut

crosswise into three chunks • 24 ounces- semi-sweet chocolate chunks or

chocolate chips (you can try substituting dark chocolate or white chocolate here, if you prefer)

• Toppings (these are suggestions, but feel free to get creative!): — Chopped Salted Peanuts, Pistachios, or Almonds— Rainbow Sprinkles— Coconut Flakes— Cacao Nibs

• Finely chopped dried fruit (try mango, papaya, or pineapple)

• 24 wooden craft sticks (popsicle sticks) • Waxed paper or parchment paper• Freezer space!

PREPARING THE MONKEY POPS: • Line two baking sheets with waxed paper or

parchment paper• Place chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over (not

in) a pan of gently simmering water. Stir just until smooth, glossy, and melted.

• Insert a popsicle stick into one end of each banana chunk

• One at a time, dip each chunk into the melted chocolate. Try to coat most of the banana—you can shake it gently to get rid of excess chocolate, or spoon extra chocolate on to coat.

• Set the banana on the baking sheet and sprinkle with the topping of your choice

• When all bananas are chocolate-dipped and sprinkled, put them in the freezer (on the baking sheets) to harden for at least 30 minutes and up to 3 days

— TROPICAL FRUIT PUNCH —Makes about 10 cups

A refreshing, fruity treat to power your coloring! Feel free to mix in your favorite tropical fruits (try guava, papaya, kiwi, or passionfruit). You can also substitute seltzer for ginger ale for a lighter drink. (Adapted from Southern Living’s Southern Pineapple Punch)

WHAT YOU’LL NEED: • 1 (2-liter) bottle ginger ale, chilled• 1 (12-oz.) container frozen pineapple-orange juice

concentrate, thawed• 1 cup mango nectar• 1 tablespoon finely grated fresh ginger• Fresh or frozen mango and pineapple

slices for garnish

PREPARING THE FRUIT PUNCH: Stir together chilled ginger ale, pineapple-orange juice concentrate, mango nectar, and ginger. Serve over crushed ice.

If desired, you can make this punch an adults-only drink by adding rum (try adding about 1 ½ cups to this recipe).

Refreshments

How Cool is That?! JUNGLE FACTS Jungles are overgrown with wild tangles of vegetation and dense forest.

Jungles and rainforests are similar, but while rainforests have thick canopies of tall trees that block out light, jungles allow more light in, making it easier for plants to grow.

Jungles are often on the edge of rainforests, so they’re pretty close to each other.

Only 6% of the land on Earth is covered by jungles and rainforests, but over half of all species live there in a jungle environment.

The extra light in a jungle creates a thick carpet of plants and vegetation. It’s not easy to make your way around here.

Jungles are mostly in warm places that have lots of rain, all the better for those plants to grow.

The forest floor is like one big moving mat of insects that are really good at eating up anything that falls or dies.

The ants alone weigh four times more than all the jungle mammals!

A mysterious animal called the Tapir that lives on the jungle floor. They kind of look like a mix between a pig and an anteater. These strange looking animals are the last survivors of a large family of mammals that have hardly changed over 20 million years!

The world’s 54 billion domestic chickens descend from the red jungle fowl. It is a pheasant indigenous to the jungles of south east Asia. Their eggs are half the size of a domestic chicken’s but the shells are twice as thick.

Jungles have heaps of figs and they are one of the important species in the jungle. There are over 800 varieties of them! They grow all year round, so they’re like a cafeteria for the animals…nice and easy food for them.

Giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day.

The trees of a tropical rainforest are so densely packed that rain falling on the canopy can take as long as 10 minutes to reach the ground. More than 2,000 different species of butterflies are found in the rainforests of South America.

Flying animals of Asian rainforests include frogs, squirrels and snakes.

80% of the flowers in the Australian rainforests are not found anywhere else in the world.

In your previous books, you’ve invited colorists to join you for inky adventures in gardens, forests, and oceans. What attracted you to the jungle for this new book?

I’ve never visited a real Jungle, but the idea for this book came to me whilst visiting Aberdeen’s Winter Gardens with my daughter, Evie. The tropical plants are housed in huge glass greenhouses and whilst exploring them one day Evie pointed into the dense leafy undergrowth and shouted “Look Mummy! Tiger!” The Jungle suddenly seemed like a marvelous place for an inky adventure; full of gargantuan leaves, exotic flowers and teeming with creatures big and small. A great place to let your imagination roam wild!

What about coloring do you think is so therapeutic?

I think it’s a great chance to unplug and indulge in a bit of a digital detox. We’re all glued to screens, be it our laptops, iPads or TVs, so to have the opportunity to lose yourself for a little while in something analogue and creative is often a welcome retreat. There’s no ping of a tweet or an email or the interruption of a new message to read, you can just spend some time focused on the task at hand and ignite your inner creative spark.

Who is your favorite artist? Favorite author?

We’re currently reading a lot of Dr. Seuss in our house. My favorite has to be Oh, The Places You’ll Go! It’s like an undercover self-help book with its motivational messages and no-nonsense advice—perfect if you are feeling a little lost or stuck in a procrastinating fog.

I could never pick one single favorite artist or creative practice; these things change like the seasons. My current obsessions are terrariums, brush calligraphy, flat lay photography (still life for the digital age!) and pantone color books.

A Conversation with JOHANNA BASFORD

You’ve spoken about not being accepted to a post grad program. What about your life do you think would be different if you had gotten in? What are the benefits of a “real world” education as opposed to formal post-graduate programs?

To be fair, I applied to do a post grad at the Royal College of Art in London because I didn’t know what else to do after Art School. It wasn’t the best reason to continue in education and I’m lucky they rejected me! Instead of spending 2 more (expensive!) years in education, I just got stuck into work. I did some internships then set-up my own studio. I made a ton of mistakes, but I learnt from them all. I think there’s only so much you can learn within the bubble of Art School, sooner or later you have to go out into the real world, find your clients, your voice, your style of work and just start living!

Do you color in your own books?

Not as much as you would think! I often test pens and paper samples by coloring in small sections of the drawings, but I tend to think of the books as collaborations. I create the artwork and draw the outlines, then it’s up to whoever buys the book to bring the color and make their mark. My job is the black and white line work, then I hand creative control over to audience. I think perhaps if I started coloring the books it would disrupt the natural order of things!

In your bio you’re described as an “ink evangelist.” What does that mean to you?

I prefer pens and pencils to pixels. I use the computer right at the end of my creative process to rotate butterflies, erase tea spillages and perhaps flip some symmetry. I absolutely don’t use the computer to create. I think the natural world needs to be captured by hand, it seems counterintuitive to try and recreate the beauty of a jelly fish or a coral reef in little square pixels! I rejoice in the wobbly lines, imperfect circles and the odd smudgy finger print—they prove that the artwork was lovingly crafted by a real person and not just generated on a screen.

Your coloring books, Secret Garden, Enchanted Forest, and Lost Ocean, have been huge successes, with over 20 million sold worldwide. Were you surprised by that? What in your life has been different since the books took off?

The numbers don’t seem real! Day to day not much has changed in terms of work. I still sit at my desk in my house in rural Scotland, drawing pictures all day and dreaming up ways to share them with the world. I’ll never fail to be surprised by the way a little idea, to create a coloring book for adults, has snowballed into what it has become. It’s utterly bizarre but also incredibly humbling to have the opportunity to share my work and collaborate with millions of people all over the world. Some days I look at the amazing pictures people post online of their completed coloring pictures and just think “how did this happen?!”

Now that your daughter is approaching two years old, have you started to introduce her to coloring?

Of course! Although it was less of an introduction and more sabotage! Evie loves to find a pen or pencil and add her own little contribution to whatever might be on my desk—whether I want her to or not! Her favorite creative projects are our “Big Pictures.” I tape a long strip of wallpaper to the kitchen floor, grab a marker and draw whatever she tells me (usually this involves butterflies, mice and raspberries), then she lies on the floor and colors it in with her crayons whilst I cook dinner.

Traditionally, coloring has been considered an activity for kids, but obviously adults are big fans of coloring, as evidence by the success of adult coloring books! Your books are designed for adults, with very intricate and detailed illustrations, but do you see coloring as a family activity? Do you have suggestions for your fans who want to get their kids involved?

I think any creative activity can be enjoyed by people of all ages, you just need to adapt it a little, relax and have fun. The reason kids enjoy drawing and painting so much is that they aren’t too precious with it. They never doubt their own talent or worry they aren’t doing it ‘right’—they just get stuck in!

I see so many great examples of my drawings colored by kids—and they all look full of joy and energy and excitement! The best way to encourage little people to pick up a pen or pencil is to lead by example. Sit down and do some coloring of your own, don’t worry if you go over the lines and don’t over think your color choice.

Remember, there are no wrong colors! Suggest to kids that they can color several sections in the same color if the individual shapes are proving to be a bit fiddly and always advise that they go wild when it comes to backgrounds—encourage them to add their own drawings and embellishments! For very little hands, get a blank sheet of paper and a marker pen, then draw a simplified version of the page you are working on—perhaps a couple of big leaves and a butterfly—this way they have their own “special” version to color and you can keep your book crayon free!

And lastly, remember collaboration is always the most fun way to work! Pick a page, then take it in turns to color

a bit!

If you could pick one of your environments to inhabit as one of its critters or creatures, which would it be? Why?

Oh I’d love to be a bee in Secret Garden! I just love bumble bees! Flitting from flower to flower, living with all your friends and enjoying the summer sunshine—what a life!

Build a BUTTERFLY MOBILEFrom the forest floor to emergent layer create your own jungle background. Perfect for rainiest of jungle days! WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Magical Jungle Butterfly Coloring Sheet (print next page)• Colored Paper• Pens or Pencils• An embroidery hoop (buy this from a craft store—just use the inner hoop)• Embroidery thread• Scissors• A needle• Glue Stick or Spray Mount Adhesive

WHAT TO DO:

1. Print out the Magical Butterfly Coloring Sheet onto nice thick paper. 2. Apply glue to the reverse of the Butterfly sheet, then stick it to a bright sheet

of coloured paper so you have butterflies on the front and colored paper on the back.

3. Now COLOR! Get to work with those pens and pencils and colour the front of your tropical butterflies.

4. When all 10 are coloured, get your scissors and carefully cut around each butterfly.

5. Cut 2 lengths of embroidery thread about 12 inches long. 6. Tie the ends of one to the hoop so it spans the diameter, then tie the other

so it crosses the first (Your hoop should look like a pie cut into quarters!)7. Tie one long length of thread to the centre of the cross from which your

mobile will hang.8. Using the needle, thread a length of embroidery yarn through the little

black dot on the head of each butterfly and secure with a small knot.

9. Now tie each of the lengths of yarn to the hoop at varying lengths, so your butterflies hang in different positions and trim any stray tails of thread.

10. Ta-Da! Your MAGICAL JUNGLE Mobile is now complete!

Check out Johanna’s blog for step by step photo instructions.

MAGICAL BUTTERFLY coloring sheet

Praise for JOHANNA BASFORD“The reigning queen of coloring is the Scottish illustrator Johanna Basford.” —New York Times

“Johanna Basford’s coloring book is better than Xanax.” —Refinery29

“The crème de la crème…the [adult coloring book] genre has been around for at least four decades…but Basford’s success made it a phenomenon.” —TIME

“Coloring books for adults have been around for decades, but Basford’s success…has helped to create a massive new industry category.” —New Yorker

“Coloring books for grown-ups…were the hottest trend [in 2015]. Led by Johanna Basford’s Lost Ocean.” —Associated Press

“The colorists have a queen, and her name is Johanna Basford.” —New York Magazine

“Basford introduced sophisticated line drawings signifying a new refinement in coloring books that goes far beyond childish refrigerator art.”

—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Consider trading in your yoga mat for a set of markers and peruse the gorgeous gardens of Basford’s imagination.” —Huffington Post

“Artist Johanna Basford is at the forefront of the grown up coloring trend. Her whimsical artwork just makes us want to drop all our responsibilities and color forever.” —Hello Giggles

“For the past few months, adult coloring books have quietly become international sensations…Some of the original and most popular books are drawn by designer Johanna Basford.” —CBS News

“The Scottish illustrator and self-described ‘ink evangelist’ Johanna Basford may not have invented the adult coloring book category, but she played a major role in turning what was largely a children’s hobby into the publishing craze of 2015.”

—Publishers Weekly (PW Notables of the Year)

Created by Meredith Burks and Emma Mohney in collaboration with Johanna Basford • Designed by Ashley Lau