“The adult colouring books also have that coffee-table book appeal, they are aesthetically pleasing. We like to revisit old things and memories and colouring books are a sideline like that — you can go back and look at an old picture you completed.”
Mrs Dalrymple has been the librarian at Lytton High School for 12 years. She says new-age blockbuster movie and television adaptions, starting with Harry Potter, led to a definite resurgence in reading.
“Harry Potter made books cool again. Now we have series like Twilight, Maze Runner and Game of Thrones. Other series like Divergent and Hunger Games also cross over into the adult age group too.
“The spin-off has been that more people are reading and as a result, things like colouring books have been up-dated and made cool again too.”
Mrs Dalrymple reads on average six novels a month. You can find her recommendations at Paper Plus, featuring “staff pick” stickers.