Books with author Bruce LaFontaine

Imagine yourself behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT2 Twin-Turbo Coupe! Here are the cars most of us just dream about — sleek, fast, fabulous machines that cost a small fortune! Thirty precisely and accurately rendered illustrations portray the legendary luxury cars that race through our imaginations: Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Coupe, BMW Z8 Convertible, Maserati Spyder 2-door Convertible/Roadster, Rolls-Royce Phantom 4-door Sedan, Jaguar XJ220, Bugatti EB 110S 2-door Coupe, and other automotive marvels.Detailed captions provide specs and other information (including top speed and acceleration time). And they come in any colors you choose to make them!

Fast, flashy, and powerful, "muscle" cars were big, mass-produced American sports cars with lots of horsepower. For this unique coloring book, award-winning illustrator Bruce LaFontaine has expertly rendered 44 of these dynamic, legendary cars, down to the smallest detail. Among the models included here — shown against a variety of commercial and residential backdrops — are these memorable vehicles: 1962 Ford Thunderbird, 1964 Corvette Stingray, 1968 Chevy Impala SS 427, 1969 Chevy Camaro Z/28, 1969 AMC Rambler Scrambler, 1969 Shelby Cobra Mustang GT-500, 1969 Firebird Trans Am, 1970 Ford Torino Cobra, 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, 1971 Mustang Boss 351, 1973 Buick Riviera, 1974 Firebird Trans Am, and 32 other exciting models. Informative captions, with facts and statistics for each car, complete an exciting collection that will delight coloring book enthusiasts as well as "muscle car" fans.

This exciting sticker collection invites you to create a parade of old-time trains that span 60 years of railroad history. Included are 16 sticker portraits of freight and cattle cars, an old-fashioned steam locomotive, passenger cars, a caboose from 1900, and a diesel-electric locomotive as well as a chemical tanks car, a flat car, a streamlined Vista-Dome passenger car, and more.Use these stickers one at a time or line them up to create a special train of your own. Train Stickers are perfect for adding eye-catching interest to school projects, lunch boxes, notebooks, windows, walls, children's furniture, and many other flat surfaces.

Train buffs and colorists will love adding their own hues to this fine fleet of luxury railway cars--from the elegant cars of Europe's Orient-Express, which catered to passenger comfort with deluxe dining and sleeping cars, to America's Super Chief that ran on a transcontinental route between Chicago and Los Angeles. Thirty drawings depict the interiors and exteriors of such famous trains as the multicolored cars of the Hiawatha, a passenger line traveling between Chicago and Seattle; the observation lounge on the Burlington Zephyr; and a sleeping compartment on New York Central's famed 20th Century Limited.

Perhaps the most influential architect of the twentieth century, Frank Lloyd Wright designed and created commercial, public, and residential structures noted for their revolutionary, organic form. In this carefully researched and expertly rendered coloring book, technical draftsman Bruce LaFontaine has drawn 44 of Wright's major buildings for study and use by students of modern American architecture.Among the buildings depicted here in finely detailed drawings that are ideal for coloring are Johnson Wax Company Building in Racine, Wisconsin; the inverted spiral of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; Wright's home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois; the Robie House in Chicago; the Susan Lawrence Dana home in Springfield, Illinois; Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois; Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona; the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo; the Marin Country Civic Center in San Rafael, California; and many more.In addition to providing students of architecture with an excellent sourcebook of imaginative designs, these masterly drawings also offer coloring book enthusiasts an opportunity to color a rich selection of innovative buildings that have helped transform the modern American landscape.

A highly developed form of protected, mobile striking power, tanks are the successors to war chariots and armored elephants used by armies of ancient times. Designed to be used as part of large infantry units (as in World Wars I and II), or as a separate striking force (as in the Gulf War of 1991), the modern tank is a formidable weapon of war.This comprehensive coloring book of 44 accurately rendered illustrations chronicles the development of tanks and other armored vehicles — from the "Little Willie" (1915) to the British Challenger 2 main battle tank (MBT) (1994). Also included are these vehicles: Rolls Royce Armored Scout Car (1916); British Mark A Whippet (1917); Japanese Type 95 (1935); French Char B1 (1937); British A12 Matilda (1940); German Panzer III (1940); Russian T-34 (1940); American M4 Sherman (1942); American M26 Pershing (1945); Russian T-72 MBT (1973); American M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (1961); Israeli Merkava MBT (1980); and 30 more.Detailed informative captions accompany each illustration in a book sure to be enjoyed by military buffs and colorists alike.

Here are seventeen beautifully detailed locomotives, originally built between the mid-19th and 21st centuries, ready for you to use as stickers. Among them you will find the Mallard class A4, the fastest steam locomotive, reaching a speed of 125 miles per hour; France's 186 mph TGV, a high-speed electric locomotive; the powerful Big Boy, designed to pull a 3,600-ton train at up to 80 mph, and more. The names of the locomotives can be found on the inside back cover, along with the wheel arrangement (using the Whyte System), engine type, year built, railroad, and country. To use the stickers, simply peel and apply.

Americans have always loved their cars — and at no other time in automotive history were they more appreciated and enjoyed than during the postwar 1950s. People clamored for new cars, and auto manufacturers obliged with designs that conveyed power and "Jet-Age" styling.Illustrator Bruce LaFontaine portrays the exciting cars of this period in a collection spotlighting the sleek 1950 Mercury two-door sedan; a luxurious 1952 Cadillac four-door sedan; a 1953 Buick Skylark convertible with chrome wire wheels; and the rocket-nosed 1954 Studebaker Starliner two-door coupe; as well as the following: 1955 Pontiac Starchief convertible; 1955 Mercury Montclair hardtop; 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air hardtop; 1957 Corvette convertible; 1957 Lincoln Continental Mark II; 1958 Chevrolet Impala convertible; 1958 Ford Edsel sedan; 1959 Buick Electra 225 convertible; and 18 other impressive, ready-to-color models.Attractively rendered in precise detail, these handsome images will thrill coloring book fans and car lovers alike.

This exciting collection of stickers lets you create your own parade of hard-working vehicles. You'll find images of an 18-wheeler, a monster truck, cement mixer, tanker truck, flatbed tow truck, armored truck, and ten other models — all perfect for adding a touch of power to notebooks, lunch boxes, and other flat surfaces. To use the stickers, simply peel and apply.

Add visual excitement to your homework assignments, to stationery, windows, walls, and other flat surfaces with the 18 fascinating sticker illustrations in this colorful and educational collection.You'll find accurate drawings of the sun and all the planets in our solar system as well as moons, asteroids, and a comet. There are realistic drawings of Mercury (the smallest Planet), cloud-shrouded Venus, Jupiter and its four moons, Saturn and its rings, and ten other heavenly bodies. Identification captions are included.

Here are the swift and stylish automobiles of any car-lover's dreams. Get behind the wheel of one hundred classic vehicles, including: • Classic 1950s models — including the 1955 Pontiac Starchief convertible, 1955 Mercury Montclair hardtop, 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air hardtop, 1957 Lincoln Continental Mark II, 1958 Ford Edsel sedan, and 1959 Buick Electra 225 convertible• Powerful "muscle" cars — the 1962 Ford Thunderbird, 1964 Corvette Stingray, 1968 Chevy Impala SS 427, 1969 Chevy Camaro Z 28, 1969 Shelby Cobra Mustang GT-500, 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, and more • Fabulous luxury cars — the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren two-door Coupe, Maserati Spyder two-door Convertible Roadster, Rolls-Royce Phantom four-door Sedan, Jaguar XJ220 two-door Coupe, Lamborghini Diablo two-door Coupe, Ferrari Enzo two-door Coupe, and others

It's hard to imagine the history of transportation without trucks — pickups, tankers, tractor-trailers, logging trucks, tow trucks, flat-beds, delivery vans — trucks of all shapes and sizes, carrying the cargo, hauling the freight, transporting every imaginable kind of goods all over the world.Now truck lovers and coloring book fans can enjoy this ready-to-color convoy of vintage (and modern) trucks, ranging from a 1904 Oldsmobile light delivery car to a 1995 Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle. Forty-one meticulously detailed illustrations, including four double-page spreads, depict such mechanical marvels as a Ford Model T closed cab delivery truck (1913), a GMC tractor with sleeper cab (1932), a Chevrolet half-ton pickup truck (1939), a Dodge Ram 528 "Retriever" tow truck (1985) and many more.Coloring book enthusiasts and anyone interested in the exciting history of trucks will welcome this pictorial parade, complete with an informative introduction and identifying captions, of a long line of freight-haulers and service vehicles.