Two series.
One quiet ritual.
Large-print puzzles and drawing drills built for a calm ten minutes with coffee — no screens, no rush, and a clear sense of progress page by page.
Both series, ready today.
No "coming soon" here — every title below is written, printed and available now.
Left Hand Brain Training for Seniors
98 large-print left-hand drawing exercises that gently wake up the right side of the brain — tracing, mirror-drawing and pattern drills, printed large enough to enjoy without squinting.
Sharp Mind
Brain teasers with a journey into the past. Six kinds of exercises — word searches, true-or-false, proverbs, memory pages and more — set in large, easy-to-read type, with every solution printed at the back of the book.
Built for the desk, not the app store.
Genuinely large print
Every page is laid out for comfortable reading without a magnifying glass.
Solutions included
No guessing left hanging — every puzzle's answer is printed at the back.
No experience required
Every exercise starts simple, whether it's a first pencil stroke or a first word search.
Why it works, not just why we like it.
A few findings from published research on coloring and puzzle activities — described in general terms below, in our own words.
Calmer mind, sharper focus
In two controlled studies with adults, twenty minutes of coloring was linked to lower anxiety and better performance on attention and creative-thinking tasks compared with a non-coloring control.
Holt, Furbert & Sweetingham (2019), Art Therapy JournalMore than a pastime
A 2023 survey of 156 older adults found that regularly working on puzzles was linked to both stronger cognitive engagement and better emotional and social wellbeing.
Lin et al. (2023), Activities, Adaptation & AgingThese findings describe coloring and puzzle activities in general in published research — they were not conducted using Alex Herek books specifically, and our books are not marketed as therapeutic or medical products.
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