I purchased this book along with 3 others as I wanted to do some aboriginal art work with patients ( I am a diversional therapist) and I needed a varying degree of designs to give the patients some ideas. This book is so colourful and different from the others, it gives more reminders of the animals we could use in the art rather than technique itself yet I found it a useful book to add to the collection which for art purposes could be useful for other projects. It would be fabulous for children which I would imagine would be it's original purpose.