Baby in a Hot Car Colouring Book (Signed Copy)

Baby In A Hot Car: Colouring Book... The Interactive Version Of A Story That Did Not Need To Be Interactive But Here We Are

Betty has a baby. Betty has a casino. Betty has made a prioritization decision that the child services system will later describe with clinical precision and that this colouring book describes with illustrated pages waiting for your artistic input. Baby Sam is in the car. The sun is not kind. Tom the guard is doing his rounds. The story is the same as it has always been. The difference is that now you get to colour it in, which adds a participatory dimension to the narrative that neither Betty nor baby Sam requested but that the adult colouring book market has enthusiastically accommodated.

This adult colouring book takes the darkest parenting cautionary tale in the catalog and gives it the therapeutic colouring treatment that the adult colouring industry has applied to mandalas, nature scenes, and now apparently this. The irony is that colouring is supposed to be relaxing. The subject matter is the opposite of relaxing. That gap... between the meditative act of colouring and the content being coloured... is where this book lives, and it is comfortable there, and your pencils are going to have opinions about what colour to make Betty's terrible decision.

This Book IS For:

• Fans of adult colouring books who have exhausted the botanical and celestial genres and are ready for something with a narrative arc
• Adults who find colouring therapeutic and want to test whether that holds when the subject matter is specifically this
• Anyone who enjoyed the original Baby In A Hot Car and wanted a version where they could contribute artistically to the proceedings
• Gift-givers who want to combine the functional gift of a colouring book with the experience of a gag gift in one item

This Book Is NOT For:

• People who bought their adult colouring books for actual stress relief and are protective of the genre's therapeutic reputation
• Readers who need their colouring content to stay in the botanical-floral-celestial lane where the subject matter does not have a child in it
• Betty, who has enough problems without this documentation existing in a format you can hang on the refrigerator when you're done
• Anyone whose relationship with cars and summer heat is currently complicated for personal reasons

Appropriate For:

• Bachelorette parties where the activity portion of the evening involves colouring books and someone brought this one
• White elephant exchanges where you want to give something interactive and also hilarious and not a gift card
• Gag gifts for the person who owns every adult colouring book and thinks they've seen the full range of the format
• Any occasion where a regular funny book isn't quite hands-on enough and you want the recipient to be part of the story

Why Buy This

The adult colouring book market exists because people need to do something with their hands while processing the ambient stress of being alive. Usually that something is a mandala or a forest scene. This book offers a different kind of processing: the colouring-as-coping approach applied to a story about a mother, a casino, a very hot car, and a baby who made it because Tom was doing his rounds. You can colour Tom heroically. You can use whichever shade you feel best represents Betty's specific category of bad decision. The pencils are your editorial voice.

It costs less than a colouring supply kit and comes with the story already illustrated. Buy it for someone who has the markers and needs the content. Buy it for someone who wants to test the format's limits. Buy it for yourself and decide what colour Betty's shame is. The casino lights are waiting. Baby Sam is waiting. Tom is on his rounds. The page is blank. Not for long.