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　　Amazon’s Top 100 book list changes hourly，but two colouring books for grown­ups are the mainstays right now.

　　An artist named Johanna Basford pretty much owns two slots of the top seven books on Amazon，next to household names like Erik Larson and Dr.Phil.But Basford’s books aren’t novels—they’re collections of black­and­white drawings.The artist，who graduated from design school in 2005 and is based in Scotland，has turned her lovely ink drawings into colouring books “for grownups”. And they’re wildly popular，selling millions of copies.

　　What is it about these books that has made them so popular with adults? Basford told me that when she first suggested to publishers the idea of a grown­up colouring book four years ago，“colouring for adults wasn’t the trend it is now.You can imagine how quiet they went after I suggested it.”

　　But the book she ended up drawing has become a phenomenon：2017’s Secret Garden：An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book is currently #2 on Amazon’s Top 100 and has sold 1.4 million copies.The followup，Enchanted Forest：An Inky Quest & Colouring Book，is #6 right now.Why is colouring suddenly a craze amongst grown­ups?

　　Basford pointed to some reasons—first，that colouring books are a way for adults who don’t normally draw or paint to be creative.“A blank sheet of paper can be discouraging，but a colouring book acts as a bit of a buffer(缓冲) in this situation，” she says.

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