Coloring Books

Retro Reprints is an online archive dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing coloring books and related printed material. Describing itself as the world’s largest coloring book archive and repository, the site offers a searchable collection spanning thousands of referenced books and hundreds of thousands of scanned pages. Visitors can explore material by genre, including anime and manga, cartoons, comics, movies, television, educational and religious themes, seasonal subjects, paper dolls, toys, and video games.

The archive provides printable coloring pages, sample images, and complete e-books, alongside information about its collection and ongoing preservation work. Its catalogue includes books the organization owns as well as items documented with samples; the site reports more than 18,900 books referenced and over 11,300 printable images. Retro Reprints also shares updates about new additions, publishes commentary on collecting and restoration, and invites visitors to submit requests and support its work. For those interested in acquiring authentic books, it directs shoppers to its main store and eBay listings.