Morning Café is a 110-page bold and easy coloring book for adults and teens, by Nora Ember. Not on sale yet.

The book opens with single things, a pour-over dripper, a milk pitcher, a hand coffee grinder, moves into fuller scenes, the corner cafe at sunrise, the coffee roaster, the room inside with its bistro chairs, and closes on simple shapes again, a takeaway cup, a sugar bowl, two mugs on hooks, so it starts with quick wins and ends on calm pages.

What is inside

  • The counter, the barista's tools, the pastry case, the shopfront and the street with its bicycles
  • A cafe as a place, not a table of drinks: two mugs in the whole book
  • If you want the cake and the cupcakes, Sweet Treats
  • 52 bold and easy designs, one to a right-hand page with the back left blank so a marker cannot bleed onto the next design, and a page to test your pens before you start.

The pictures are made with an image generation tool, then checked one by one by us. How a book gets made.

12 of the 52 designs, in page order

Stovetop moka pot, sparrow on a cafe chair, espresso machine, coffee scoop and bean jar, bread oven and peel, cargo bike with milk crates, pendant lamps and hanging plants, rain boots by the door, tiered stand of scones, eclairs and piping bag, street of three shops, sugar bowl and cream jug.

All 52 designs, in page order
  1. stovetop moka pot
  2. bread bag with baguettes
  3. milk pitcher
  4. hanging cup sign
  5. sparrow on a cafe chair
  6. hand coffee grinder
  7. chalkboard sign on the pavement
  8. bagels on a board
  9. espresso machine
  10. barista apron on a hook
  11. bicycle with a flower basket
  12. miso on the coffee sacks
  13. pastry case
  14. coffee scoop and bean jar
  15. cafe shopfront with awning
  16. portafilter and tamper
  17. dog waiting at the bike rack
  18. bread oven and peel
  19. window box of herbs
  20. shelf of tea tins
  21. till and counter bell
  22. cargo bike with milk crates
  23. dough on the baking table
  24. pigeons under the chairs
  25. chalkboard menu wall
  26. corner cafe at sunrise
  27. pendant lamps and hanging plants
  28. french press and kettle
  29. croissants on a cooling rack
  30. dog in a bike basket
  31. rain boots by the door
  32. flower cart outside
  33. vintage table radio
  34. hedgehog by the back door
  35. tiered stand of scones
  36. bistro chairs under a parasol
  37. inside the cafe
  38. cups drying by the sink
  39. view from the window
  40. eclairs and piping bag
  41. shelves of coffee bags
  42. coffee plant branch
  43. eggs whisk and mixing bowl
  44. street of three shops
  45. beans and leaves pattern
  46. takeaway cup
  47. pastries pattern
  48. sugar bowl and cream jug
  49. miso on a stool
  50. two mugs on hooks
  51. lemon tree in a tub
  52. cafe border

Questions before you buy

Who is it for?

Morning Café is drawn for adults and teens: lines thick enough to stay inside without effort and spaces big enough to fill in a sitting. The adult books have more detail than a small hand enjoys; for ages 3 to 6, Little Lantern Coloring is the same idea drawn bigger.

How many designs, and how big are the pages?

52 designs on 110 pages, 8.5 x 8.5 in, one design to a page, from the first (stovetop moka pot) to the last (cafe border). The book opens on single objects, moves into fuller scenes and ends on quiet pages.

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