Books in Nature Colouring Books series

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.

A marvel of the natural world, Australia's Great Barrier Reef covers 135,000 square miles of water and pulses with an enormous variety of sealife. Here are thirty portraits of the inhabitants of this amazing ecosystem, waiting to come alive with your addition of colors and tints. Beautifully detailed illustrations include the tiger shark, spotfin lionfish, crown-of-thorns starfish, bluespine unicornfish, scribbled angelfish, harlequin tuskfish, pig-faced butterflyfish, blue-ringed octopus, mandarin fish, and many more! Identifying captions provide information about each fascinating creature.

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.

Dreaming and relaxing, with the wonderful Art Nouveau designs of Alphonse Mucha, this beautiful new book will give you many hours of pleasure, and calm. Printed on high quality paper, this art book features 45 intricate Mucha artworks for you to colour, offering a suggestion of how the original looked as well as key information such as title and date. Mucha's distinctive style and images of beautiful women in arabesque poses evoked a beautiful, spiritual life, and this book will take you on an enjoyable journey where the satisfaction of creating stunning artworks is mixed with rediscovering the joy of colouring. You can use a wide variety of pens: from gel and pencil, to pigment and crayons, from ballpoint and rollerball to highlighters, although it’s best to avoid the heavy felt pens. Each page is perforated near the spine of the book, so you can tear out and frame, or simply place your wonderful creation on the walls of your home, perhaps even send them as a gift to your loved ones. Bring the Ink to life!

Award-winning artist Sylvia Long has teamed with up-and-coming author Dianna Aston to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to eggs. From tiny hummingbird eggs to giant ostrich eggs, oval ladybug eggs to tubular dogfish eggs, gooey frog eggs to fossilized dinosaur eggs, it magnificently captures the incredible variety of eggs and celebrates their beauty and wonder.The evocative text is sure to inspire lively questions and observations. Yet while poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to more than 60 types of eggs and an interesting array of egg facts. Even the endpapers brim with information. A tender and fascinating guide that is equally at home being read to a child on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle.

From the award-winning creators of An Egg Is Quiet, A Seed Is Sleepy, and A Butterfly Is Patient comes a gorgeous and informative introduction to the fascinating world of rocks. From dazzling blue lapis lazuli to volcanic snowflake obsidian, an incredible variety of rocks are showcased in all their splendor. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, this book introduces an array of facts, making it equally perfect for classroom sharing and family reading.

Thirty action-packed illustrations to color include mythic and prehistoric depictions of bloodthirsty predators as well as realistic drawings of modern species, including the hammerhead, white, bull, and other sharks. Captions accompany each image, offering fascinating facts about shark ecology, including their feeding, swimming, and territorial habits.

Among nature's perennial delights are the multihued wildflowers that grace field and forest, roadside and riverbank with their uncultivated beauty. Dazzling in their variety of form and color, they offer a true garden of earthly delights — pleasing to the eye and comforting to the spirit.Now lovers of wildflowers can color a bouquet of floral favorites in this charming book. In detailed, accurate drawings, nature illustrator Ilil Arbel has rendered 44 familiar wildflowers: yellow flag, downy lobelia, bittersweet nightshade, wild hyacinth, spring beauty, bunchberry, fringed gentian, showy evening primrose, mayapple, common yarrow, showy tick trefoil, wild bleeding heart, ivy-leaved morning glory, meadow rose, yellow iris, globe thistle, wild calla, desert marigold, and many more. Each flower is shown in color on the covers. In addition, captions give plants' height, coloring, common and botanical names, and other information. The result is an informative guide that offers not only hours of coloring enjoyment but also an excellent way for flower lovers to learn to recognize and identify many species. Favorite Wildflowers Coloring Book also represents a fine source of royalty-free illustrations for artists and craftspeople.

For centuries the cultivation of herbs has yielded fragrance, medicine, flavoring, and nourishment to a vast array of civilizations, including our own. Coriander, lavender, marjoram, saffron, thyme — all have proven to be plants of great versatility and beauty.Here is your chance to learn 30 of the most important culinary herbs, drawn life-size by Stefen Bernath. Each herb is displayed with its scientific name. You can color these herbs realistically with the help of the full-color illustrations shown on the covers, or you can use your own powers of observation and imagination. In either case, this book proves a delightful tool for recognizing and describing herbs.

The great Sonoran Desert, which covers the hottest part of the U.S. Southwest and northwestern Mexico, teems with a surprising abundance of unusual creatures and plant life. While the desert seems to sleep during the hot daylight hours, many animals are actually up and about. But the desert is most active at night.This entertaining, educational coloring book, filled with realistic illustrations, follows wildlife and plants — from tiny lizards and delicate flowers to coyotes and giant saguaros — through a 24-hour cycle. Lifelike, ready-to-color portraits depict an antelope jack rabbit scared by peccaries, a desert tortoise chewing on a beavertail cactus, a bobcat encountering a family of skunks, a turkey vulture with a six-foot wingspread, and many other plants and animals that have adapted to the harsh environment of the desert.Sure to appeal to colorists of all ages, this fascinating collection of 29 detailed, accurate illustrations will thrill nature lovers as well.