BEST anatomy coloring book

Saysfaa · Oct 25, 2012

I don't think there is a single best one. I like Kapit's best because of clarity (enough detail without having too much in the pictures), because it has print on only one side of a page (so I can use ink as well as pencil without it messing up the next picture when it bleeds through) and because of the way it uses superscripts to group related parts, and because the letters inside most of the structures rather than lines from the label to the part (coloring the words of the label takes care of identifying which label goes with which part). I also like the amount of text it provides. I don't like Kapit's for physiology nearly as much as I do for anatomy. I have 3rd editions.

My next choice would be Barron's because of clarity and the spiral binding so the pages lie open flat is nice. I have the 1st edition, in case there is a new one out.

My next choice would be Muscolino's (Mosby's). I have the "Musculoskeletal" one (I don't know if they make others). I like the many, many, many views. I don't like all the lines inside each muscle - it makes it harder to follow the individual muscles.

I look at Alcamo's (Princton Review) but I like more detail I get in the others. I have the second edition.

I didn't like the Grey's Anatomy coloring book I had for a while. I don't remember why I didn't like it in detail - too much detail, I think, anyway it was just much harder to use. It is possible there is more than one Grey's Anatomy coloring book.

I detested one that I don't remember the name of - it was a very short booklet (maybe 8 or 10 pages) and was no better than pages to color for an elementary health class.

I also used my cat disection book to learn human anatomy. It had nice line drawings from different anglesperspectives than all the human anatomy books had - it helped me understand how parts fit together (esp where they attached and which went over which).

jennaroo · Oct 25, 2012

WOW!!!!!!

Thanks for the input!!!

Nurse2b7337 · Oct 25, 2012

I have the coloring book by the author of Marieb. It's the same author as my textbook. hth