# AFRIMYTHOS STORYHOUSE — BATCH 1 CONTINUATION ORDER
## Continue from `batch1_v2`. Do not restart from zero.

Proceed with the next production round for **MY AFRICAN SAFARI COLOURING BOOK**, following the existing production report and approved lion standard.

The objective is to finish Batch 1 to professional, child-appropriate quality—not merely to produce 20 pages quickly.

### 1. PRESERVE THE EXISTING WORK

- Continue from the existing `batch1_v2/` project and inspect `batch1_v2/STATUS_BATCH1_RESTART.md` first.
- Preserve all existing PDFs, source files, accepted artwork, rejected candidates, scripts and logs.
- Do not overwrite or delete previous versions. Save new work in a clearly named versioned location.
- Before generating anything, inspect the existing files and identify which accepted animal illustrations already exist as usable source assets. Do not waste image generations recreating accepted artwork.
- Distinguish between an accepted artwork candidate, an assembled book page and a visually verified finished page. They are not interchangeable.

### 2. USE THE APPROVED LION AS THE QUALITY BENCHMARK

The approved lion is the standard for all animal illustrations.

Every animal must have:
- Natural, recognisable African wildlife anatomy and believable proportions.
- Clean, consistent, uniform black outlines.
- Large, open colouring spaces suitable for crayons and children aged 3–6.
- Simple but professionally structured anatomy, with realism coming from shape and proportion rather than excessive detail.
- Pure black-and-white line art, with white interiors and no grey shading.

Reject babyish drawings, chibi or kawaii proportions, oversized heads or eyes, toy-like bodies, scratchy outlines, hatching, stippling, gradients, dense textures, tiny enclosed spaces and decorative details that are too narrow to colour.

**The lion’s approval does not automatically approve the other animals or the entire book.** Evaluate each illustration independently.

### 3. ROUND A — CORRECT AND COMPLETE THE FIRST GROUP

First inspect the existing source files and candidates. Then:

1. **Zebra:** Produce a new candidate only if no usable accepted version exists. Correct the previous problem of narrow, uncolourable stripe areas. Use broad, clearly separated black stripes and large white spaces.
2. **Crocodile:** Correct or regenerate the illustration. Its body, legs, tail and scales must remain natural-looking, with large, accessible colouring spaces. Avoid tiny scale patterns.
3. **Parrot:** Preserve the accepted silhouette if possible. Remove the narrow wing-tip slivers and any other trapped or excessively narrow colouring spaces.
4. **Giraffe:** The report says giraffe r2 was accepted. Preserve it if the source file is available and it passes inspection. Do not regenerate it without a documented defect.
5. **Existing pages:** Visually inspect pages 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 at full scale. The report says these were measured but not yet fully inspected. Record a separate verdict for each page and correct any actual defects.

Inspect every relevant source file before deciding what needs regeneration. Do not claim that an item has been corrected or inspected until that action has actually been completed.

### 4. ROUND B — COMPLETE THE REMAINING ASSETS

After Round A, continue with the remaining required assets, respecting the image-generation limit:

- Hippopotamus — plan page 18.
- Tortoise — plan page 19.
- Ostrich — plan page 20.
- Full-colour welcome page — plan page 2.

Check for existing usable candidates before generating replacements. Use the approved lion’s quality standard for all new animal illustrations.

The welcome page must be full colour, age-appropriate, readable and visually consistent with AFRIMYTHOS Storyhouse. Do not alter the locked book title or introduce the word “Guided” onto the title page.

If the image-generation cap prevents completion in one round, preserve all progress and continue in another round. Never substitute a missing page with a blank page or pretend an incomplete PDF is finished.

### 5. LOCKED BOOK SPECIFICATIONS

These specifications must not change during production:

- Book: **MY AFRICAN SAFARI COLOURING BOOK**
- Brand: AFRIMYTHOS Storyhouse
- Audience: Ages 3–6
- Trim size: 8.5 × 11 inches, portrait
- Interior: **NO BLEED on every page**
- Exact PDF page dimensions: 612 × 792 points
- Use consistent KDP-safe margins and keep text and artwork safely inside them.
- Do not mix bleed and no-bleed pages.
- Do not use 8.625 × 11.25-inch interior pages.
- Page 1 title: “MY AFRICAN SAFARI COLOURING BOOK”. Keep “Guided” out of the title page.
- Page 2: full-colour welcome/introduction.
- Page 79: full-colour “This Book Belongs To” owner’s page.
- Page 80: full-colour completion certificate.
- Colour palette: RED, YELLOW, BLUE, GREEN, BROWN and BLACK. White is the uncoloured paper.
- Keep colour instructions short and direct, such as “Colour the lion yellow.” Swatch colours must match their labels.
- Do not introduce additional teaching colours without approval.
- Ensure the final KDP print configuration is appropriate for the interior, which includes colour pages.

### 6. LOCKED PLAN FOR PAGES 1–20

1. Title page
2. Full-colour welcome
3. Meet RED
4. Meet YELLOW
5. Meet BLUE
6. Meet GREEN
7. Meet BROWN
8. Meet BLACK
9. Find yellow shapes
10. Colour safari objects
11. Lion — yellow
12. Elephant — blue
13. Giraffe — yellow body, brown spots
14. Zebra — black stripes
15. Monkey — brown
16. Crocodile — green
17. Parrot — red and green
18. Hippopotamus — blue
19. Tortoise — green
20. Ostrich — brown

Preserve the existing approved content and the intended page order. Do not silently swap, duplicate, omit or renumber pages.

### 7. PAGE-BY-PAGE QUALITY CONTROL

Before assembling the complete 20-page PDF:

- Render and inspect every finished page at full resolution and at actual print size.
- Inspect both the artwork and the entire page layout, including text, captions, colour swatches, borders and margins.
- Check for clipping, overlapping text, unwanted marks, broken shapes, stray pixels, black crop frames, duplicate artwork, watermarks and unreadable labels.
- Confirm the animal is identifiable and anatomically credible.
- Check that colouring regions are genuinely usable by a 3–6-year-old, not merely technically enclosed.
- Confirm that the colour instruction matches the depicted animal and the approved palette.
- Verify every page measures exactly 612 × 792 points.
- Record a pass/fail result for each page, with specific defects and corrections.
- Re-render and reinspect every corrected page. A correction is not complete until its result has been checked.

Do not treat a successful dimension check, a code-generated report or a previous candidate approval as a substitute for visual inspection.

### 8. ASSEMBLY AND FINAL DELIVERABLES

Only after all 20 individual pages pass inspection:

1. Assemble the complete Batch 1 PDF in the locked page order.
2. Confirm the PDF contains exactly 20 pages, with no missing or duplicated pages.
3. Verify every page’s dimensions, margins, text, artwork and colour instructions.
4. Render the assembled PDF again and inspect the final assembled pages—not just the individual source images.
5. Save the completed PDF and supporting QA report as new versioned files without destroying earlier builds.
6. Report the actual file paths, page count, page dimensions, completed inspections, remaining defects and any outstanding work.

### 9. HONEST STATUS REPORTING

Do not say “complete,” “passed,” “KDP-ready” or “verified” unless the corresponding checks were actually performed.

If anything remains incomplete, list it explicitly. If a page was only measured and not visually inspected, label it accordingly. If a source file cannot be found, report that instead of assuming it exists.

**Start now:** inspect the existing status report and source assets, execute Round A, preserve the accepted lion and other accepted artwork, and then continue with Round B. Do not restart the project from zero or lower the approved quality standard to meet a deadline.