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Coloring books, Lowenfeld wrote, can reinforce "stereotypes." There's a fascinating illustration in his book that, well, illustrates this: Give kids a blank sheet of paper and ask them to draw a bird.

What surprised me the most, though, was Lowenfeld's reasoning about why coloring books are bad — at least in terms of schools and learning. Page 176: "The dependency upon someone else's outline of an ...