You may remember that I reviewed Coloring Fun recently, a stab at producing a colouring-for-toddlers application to keep them happy for 10 minutes on a car journey or in a queue. I won't subject you to another full review, since Coloring Book is fairly similar, but I did want to highlight its existence in the Nokia Store and to provide you with some screenshots of this commercial application. And no, neither of the titles get the spelling of 'colouring' right. What's that? There's some magic land called America where they mangle words?....

From the review of Coloring Fun:

In short, the idea is to keep things really simple, really colourful and yet allow the creation of little pieces of art that can be proudly shown to the parent sitting nearby (or driving, perhaps - this app could be a good way of keeping a son or daughter quiet on a long car journey).

If the graphics below seem over-simplistic to you then think again - they're deliberately pitched at four and five year olds and might even be a nice diversion for six and seven year olds, too.

And now we have Coloring Book in the Nokia Store too, pitched at £1.50 and more designed around scribbling than filling in areas of colour. 

Large, finger-friendly controls - actual painting is a lot more fiddly - not that a toddler will care!

The 'flower' icon cycles between pictures to try out - sadly your previous attempt at each isn't saved - this is strictly in 'colouring novelty' territory....

The 'x' close control doesn't seem to work at all. There's obviously some 'kid-safe' trick to using it, to stop your three year old closing the application by mistake and then deleting your contacts, but I couldn't stumble on it. I had to end the application using the standard Symbian multitasking carousel!

I'd rate Coloring Book slightly below the previously reviewed Coloring Fun, if only because there's no 'fill' tool, making finished pictures look messier, even in a three year old's eyes. Still, worth loading up if you have kids of the right age.