Books in Dover Design Coloring Books series

Collecting seashells, building towering sandcastles, playing in the surf, and having a picnic lunch are all part of a great day at the beach! Young beachcombers are guaranteed hours of fun as they enjoy the cute read-along story while coloring adorable pictures and learning fascinating facts in this imaginative book. Plus, there are easy recipes for take-along snacks, and even some journal pages for recording their own seaside discoveries.

With this book you can enter a realm of dazzlingly deceptive designs that offer wonderful opportunities for imaginative and inventive coloring. You'll find a host of ingeniously contrived constructions, strange, interlocking shapes and mind-boggling arrangements that defy reality and challenge the imagination to grasp their form and structure.Optical illusions are always fun to look at; coloring these masterly mind-bending illusions will add an extra dimension of enjoyment and foster a new appreciation of mysterious pictorial puzzles that make us wonder if seeing is truly believing.

From such great epics as Ben-Hur and Gone with the Wind to the madcap escapades of the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, this collection of classic movie posters celebrates thirty timeless films that movie fans never tire of watching. Faithful renderings of posters that breathlessly advertised such great films as Stagecoach, High Noon, North by Northwest, It's a Wonderful Life, West Side Story, and twenty-two others can be reproduced in their original hues or enhanced with an exciting blend of colors from the budding young artist's own palette.

This delightful activity book introduces youngsters to the wonderful world of music as they learn to recognize and identify musical instruments, discover new ways to understand music notation, and have fun sharpening their powers of observation!Thirty-one entertaining puzzles ask budding musicians and young music lovers to play follow-the-dots to create all sorts of instruments, to navigate an unusual maze in the shape of a French horn, match musical notes and letters to form words, work crossword puzzles containing familiar instrument names, and much more. Children can also color the simple black-and-white illustrations accompanying these activities, enjoying additional hours of fun-filled entertainment. Solutions are included in the back of the book.

Cascades of beautifully rendered heart designs fill 30 ready-to-color pages. Use markers, paints, crayons, or colored pencils to add vibrant hues to oceans of surging, interlocking, and spinning hearts of every shape and size! Experiment with shading techniques and creative media, and feel your pulse beat with excitement as you dream up wonderful works of art. Amazing coloring challenges that range in levels of difficulty, each illustration is fascinating and unique . . . just like the heart itself.

The highly stylized designs of pre-Columbian art are perennial favorites among graphic artists. This intriguing collection of ancient Mexican designs, masterfully adapted by Marty Noble from centuries-old Mayan, Aztec, and other Mesoamerican works, includes 30 ready-to-color illustrations.Among the many images depicted are powerful gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures, as well as supernatural scenes with calendrical associations, a relief design from a temple at Chichen Itza, figures from a temple panel in Palenque, and other subjects.A delight for coloring book enthusiasts of all ages, this collection of exotic figures can be used to add a rustic, Mesoamerican touch to a host of art and craft projects.

From the ancient Chinese art of Shaolin Kung Fu to Krav Maga, Israel's modern self-defense system, this coloring book offers a fascinating look at martial arts from around the world. Captions accompany illustrations of 30 styles: Judo, the "gentle way" of Japan; Brazilian Capoeira, which incorporates music and dance; Muay Thai Boxing, Thailand's national sport; and many other forms of contact combat.

With 119 coloring pictures, My Bible Coloring Book takes the coloring book to a new level. It teaches children essential Bible stories as they color! This coloring book covers all the main stories of the Bible, and each picture has a scripture reference. My Bible Coloring Book also contains a letter from Shirley Dobson describing the joy of taking children through the Bible, helping them to discover God’s Word.

The large, easy-to-color pictures in this book help youngsters prepare for an exciting plane trip. Twenty-two captioned illustrations — all designed to ease children through their first flight — depict a young couple and their two children at the airport, going through security checks, and waiting to board a plane; a jet being refueled; a pilot and copilot seated in the cockpit; flight attendants giving instructions; air traffic controllers tracking planes; and fifteen other scenes.