The Anatomy Coloring Book
by Lawrence M. Elson, Wynn Kapit
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Book Reviews of The Anatomy Coloring Book
Book Review: A must-have for medical school
Summary: 5 Stars
When I ordered this book, I expected it to be an additional study tool for the anatomy part of medical school. Boy is it better than that! Not only does The Anatomy Coloring Book cover anatomy in vast detail, but it also includes little blurbs on clinical correlations - many of which show up on exams. In addition, there is a nice sampling of physiology, histology, and embryology included in this book. I was amazed to find out how much of my first-year course material was covered in here. Also, the time you spend coloring in structures is time that you spend repeating the names of those structures in your head - very useful. I can't say this will work for everyone, but in my case, I could remember every structure on a plate after putting in the time to color it in - it was great! If you are a visual learner, this book is for you.Book Review: A Must Have for Students of Anatomy, Massage, etc.
Summary: 5 Stars
Just when you thought they couldn't improve on the original, they keep making it better. The third edition contains all the strengths of the first two editions with dynamite new additions that will help all students of anatomy. Go down to your local hobby shop and buy the biggest set of felt tip pens you can find. After the book is colored, it should be kept as a quick reference book. You color the labels to match the illustrations, so it's easy to look back and spot the name of the muscle, bone, organ, etc. Make sure to read the section on HOW TO USE THIS BOOK before you begin coloring.As the owner of a massage therapy school, we use this book and Salvo's Massage Therapy: Principles and Practice as our two main texts. It is incredible for those who are visual learners. We highly recommend it.
Book Review: Skip the Coloring
Summary: 2 Stars
I loathe the ACB assignments. The amazon feature of looking into the book only shows the first few pages, which happen to be the clearest and largest coloring pages. The rest of the book is torturously time consuming. I really think there are better ways to learn anatomy than wasting time coloring things. They say that coloring helps the information "pop out" and stick in your brain. I think that approach does not work for every student.
The black and white coloring pages are too tiny. Also, don't bother using colored pencils. At least markers help speed up the time.
Skip this book unless your school requires it. I loathe the whole process and ended up buying additonal anatomy and physiology materials just to help learn the information.
Melissa Barrow
Book Review: Great Addition to Any Anatomy Text
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this while taking a course in Anatomy, and did much better in the class. What would take the text a chapter to explain, this book explained in a few pages - sometimes in a few paragraphs. It was much easier to understand the organ systems when you could actually see how things worked. The coloring aspect to me at first, seemed rather silly, but it was so much fun that I quickly got past that! I would definately recommend this book to anyone taking anatomy - purchase it with your other texts if you can (I waited till mid semester to buy mine), and start off using it as a study guide - it will definately help. They make many other of these types of books also, so if you are studying biology, microbiology, physiology, and so on, it might also help to get these.Book Review: Great reference, Additional way to learn.
Summary: 5 Stars
Anatomy coloring book is an excellent addition to a textbook to study anatomy and physiology.
Besides the coloring drawings it is known for, this book offers great descriptions confined to just a couple of paragraphs. This allows for an overview, and better compartmentalization as you receive more information from 1000+ page textbook.
I found reading the overview, then using the coloring and quizzing yourself on the overall structure, the best approach. Afterward, as you go into a textbook, you will better organize information in your mind.
There is a variety of coloring books available. They overlap somewhat but have their own areas of expertise. This particular one was my favorite for A&P.