It's surely bad enough being a Kosovan child sitting in a refugee camp in Albania or Macedonia without being asked to colour in the grey features of Gilbert and George in one of their so-called "shit pictures". But Colour for Kosovo may have got it right. Just as it can ease a headache if you kick yourself in the shins, the children's minds may be sucked away from their strange and sad situation in a vortex of Bridget Riley spirographs or Antony Gormley bionic men, in the wings of a Paula Rego puckish fairy, or the limp lines of Sir Paul McCartney's peace'n'love squiggle.

Colour for Kosovo is shipping 70,000 copies of the colouring book to the refugee camps, along with 120,000 Cumberland colouring pencils. The remaining 30,000 copies of the book, which contains work by 27 artists, including Tracey Emin, Patrick Caulfield and Damien Hirst, will be sold to raise money for temporary schools which are being set up in the camps by Unicef. Paul Newman forked out £10,000 to subsidise the publication.

Though you can get it for £5 sterling from bookshops and galleries, and even from Tesco, in Britain, no-one is yet distributing the book in Ireland - Tesco Ireland says it isn't selling the book because it had already set up its Food Appeal and collection bucket. You can order it on http://books.whsmithonline.co.uk.