Quarto pioneers series of scratch-away titles

The Quarto Group is to release a new adult craft series called Scratch & Create.

The books have metallic ink layered over specially commissioned drawings, with users able to scratch away the coating and “uncover beautiful, full-colour finished artworks”.

Readers of the books can also create their own designs.

Quarto will be the first to market with a series of this kind, it said, when it releases the first four Scratch & Create books in August.