Young Adult Romance Coloring Book - a Surprise Castle exclusive

24 hand-illustrated scenes from the first kind of love, from a hallway meet-cute to a kiss under a streetlight in the rain.

Send the first text. Pick up the pencil.

A hand-drawn adult coloring book, 24 scenes that run from school hallways and library reads to rooftop sunsets and rainy umbrella kisses. The pace is set by the slow drift of a folded paper note and the quick flutter of a first message, not the next notification.

Step into a smartphone moment where two people text among floating hearts and emoji bubbles. Walk to a couple sitting on a couch facing each other beside a framed landscape. Pull up to a boy and girl on a bed holding hands. Then to two people in a hallway of lockers holding hands.

The pages keep moving. A couple sharing a milkshake with two straws at a cafe. A pair reading a book together in the library. A young couple lying in bed together hand-holding. Two people laughing outdoors with overcast sky and birds.

Wander through the day. A couple holding bikes on a fall path with bare trees. A pair sitting back-to-back on the floor. A couple embracing at an indoor train station. Two people exchanging origami paper hearts across a table.

Keep going. A boy and girl dancing together. A couple at a cafe table with hot drinks at night. Two figures sharing earbuds on a rooftop with city skyline. A split-screen of girl texting on bed and boy texting in car. A pair having coffee in a cozy booth. A couple at school lockers between classes. Two people on an urban train. A couple running outdoors hand-in-hand among autumn leaves. A boy and girl on a rooftop at sunset with cityscape. An intimate embrace from behind. Two figures kissing under an umbrella in the rain. And to close, a couple sitting together on a wooden bench at a peaceful moment.

There's a reason coloring sticks around. It gives a busy mind somewhere to land, and in this case that somewhere is the strap of a backpack or the curl of an origami heart. Some pages are bold and forgiving. Others will eat a whole afternoon. Works fine with colored pencils, fine-tip markers, or gel pens.

If you know someone with the entire John Green backlist, a friend who's read every Rainbow Rowell novel, or anyone whose perfect Saturday is a coming-of-age film and popcorn, this is for them. It's also for the person who'd quietly rather shade a rainy umbrella kiss on a Saturday than scroll.

Send the text.

Inside you'll find 24 scenes: two people texting among hearts and emoji, a couple on a couch facing each other, a boy and girl on a bed holding hands, two people in a hallway of lockers holding hands, a milkshake-with-two-straws cafe, a library reading together, a young couple lying in bed hand-holding, two people laughing outdoors with birds, a couple holding bikes on a fall path, a pair sitting back-to-back on the floor, a couple embracing at a train station, two people exchanging origami paper hearts, a boy and girl dancing, a cafe table at night, two figures sharing earbuds on a rooftop, a split-screen texting moment, a coffee in a cozy booth, a school hallway moment, two people on an urban train, a couple running among autumn leaves, a boy and girl on a rooftop at sunset, an embrace from behind, a kiss under an umbrella in rain, and a couple on a wooden bench.