Books with author Jan Sovak

A celebration of everyday natural beauty, this brilliantly colored sticker collection features realistic renditions of 17 birds you'll find in the backyard and other familiar territory. Here are images of the slate-colored junco, house finch, northern cardinal, white-breasted nuthatch, northern oriole, blue jay, eastern bluebrid, goldfinch, ruby-throated hummingbird, American robin, and seven other varieties of common birds. Ideal for beautifying personal messages and gift packages, these peel-and-apply stickers are also great for illustrating school reports and other projects.

Based on the most up-to-date information available, this awe-inspiring collection features all the popular dinosaurs — plus recent discoveries! Thirty highly detailed drawings spotlight the Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Velociraptor, Iguanodon, Diplodocus, Carnotaurus, Oviraptor, Gastonia, Troodon, and others — all set in their natural habitats. A great choice for dinosaur fans of all ages!

With this detailed and accurate coloring book, coloring enthusiasts of all ages can set out on a safari through the animal kingdom, learning to recognize and identify a host of the world's wild creatures. Fourteen double-page illustrations depict over 50 animals from North and South America, Africa, madagascar, Asia, Australia, the Arctic, Antarctica and Europe. Shown in the near-authentic environments favored by modern zoos, the animals include bison, grizzly bear, roseate spoonbill, tapir, howler monkey, lion, giraffe, chimpanzee, ring-tailed lemur, giant panda, rhinoceros, kangaroo, reindeer, wild boar and many others. Well-researched and carefully drawn, these illustrations offer colorists not only hours of enjoyable coloring fun, but a wonderful opportunity to make the acquaintance of a variety of birds and animals from many different regions and habitats.

Nature's smallest and most brilliantly colored birds can be found inside this exciting sticker collection. Nineteen varieties of hummingbirds — all realistically posed — include the streamertail, Costa's hummingbird, crimson topaz, booted racket-tail, plovercrest, blue-tufted starthroat, and 13 other exotic species. Add them to cards, letters, homework assignments, and just about any flat surface.

For this amazing sticker collection, nature artist Jan Sovak has drawn realistic portraits of those scaly-skinned reptiles known as lizards — among them the marine iguana, Jackson's chameleon, toad-headed agama, Gila monster, Bedriagai's skink, frilled lizard, gliding gecko, and 11 other creatures. Ideal for illustrating school reports, these lifelike images will also add attention-getting interest to just about any flat surfaces.

This treasury of detailed, accurately rendered illustrations (including two double-page spreads) invites coloring book enthusiasts to bring over 40 species of butterflies to life in vivid color. Here are such delicately beautiful creatures as the black, salmon-orange, white and blue painted lady, the rapid-flying dogface butterfly, with wing markings that look like a poodle's profile, and a host of others: pipevine swallowtail, monarch, buckeye, white admiral, olive hairstreak, Milbert's tortoiseshell, great spangled fritillary, ruddy daggerwing, fiery skipper, mourning cloak, tiger swallowtail, red admiral, and many more, all of them found in the United States or Canada. Fact-filled captions provide information about each species' coloration, range, habitat, special characteristics, and more. All are shown in full color on the covers. An excellent source of nature illustrations for artists and craftspeople, this delightful coloring book can also be used as an accurate, inexpensive nature identification guide.

Among the most awesome — and feared — creatures of the deep, the shark is an object of great fascination and notoriety. For this new sticker collection, nature artist Jan Sovak has accurately depicted 13 different species of this ocean-going predator, among them the bonnethead, bull, zebra, mako, silvertip, great white, great hammerhead, and six other sharks. A dramatic and authentic way to illustrate school projects and reports, these full-color mini-portraits will also add instant interest to lunch boxes, notebooks, and other flat surfaces.

For this handsome coloring book, award-winning illustrator Jan Sovak has provided a stunning gallery of line drawings depicting 41 snakes found worldwide. His clean, meticulous renderings, showing each snake in its natural habitat, include the anaconda, black mamba, boomslang, cottonmouth, fer-de-lance, king cobra, royal python, Sahara sand viper, boa constrictor, puff adder, Indian python, milk snake, garter snake, and many more. Detailed captions describe each snake. Includes an Index of popular and scientific names.

Lifelike portraits of 30 scaly creatures — from a tiny dwarf chameleon to a ten-foot-long Komodo dragon fill this coloring book. Valued as exotic pets in many parts of the United States and around the world, lizards come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. Award-winning nature artist Jan Sovak has accurately rendered 30 of these curious creatures and placed them in appropriate habitats.Included are realistic images of a leaf-tailed gecko, a blue-tongued skink, a ferocious-looking marine iguana, a chuckwalla — a plump lizard with a taste for fruit, leaves, buds, and flowers — and many other varieties. Descriptive captions included.

Noted wildlife illustrator Jan Sovak invites us into the realm of the reptiles with realistic, accurate full-color depictions of 17 serpents: Anaconda, Gabon Viper, Spotted Water Snake, Timber Rattlesnake, King Cobra, Sunbeam Snake, Banded Krait, Emerald Tree Boa, Blue-striped Garter Snake, Rhinoceros Viper, and seven more. Ideal for helping youngsters or any nature lover recognize and identify these fascinating, often misunderstood animals, the stickers also make eye-catching additions to notebooks, stationery, lockers, gym bags, lunch boxes, and other paraphernalia.

Twelve full-color sticker illustrations — all identified — provide sticker fans and nature lovers with realistic portraits of various species of dolphins, among them the common, hourglass, bottlenose, spotted, and Amazon River dolphins, as well as the spectacled and Dall's porpoise. Great for illustrating school projects, these full-color peel-and-apply stickers will also add a deep sea touch to notebooks, lockers, lunch boxes, and other flat surfaces.