Books in Dover Nature Coloring Book series

What did boys and girls wear during the early 1900s? Thirty pages of colorable illustration — based on authentic merchandise in Sears catalogs from 1901 through 1921 — provide some answers.For special occasions, girls looked splendid in frilly dresses with lots of lace and ruffles. Knee-length trousers and high-top boots were popular with boys. Both favored hats. Coloring book fans and fashion mavens will treasure this collection and its delightful glimpse of early-20th-century styles for kids.

The varied forms and coloring of native American waterfowl make them ideal subjects for a coloring book. This collection of ready-to-color drawings includes over 40 full-page plates, rendered in accurate detail by wildlife artist Ruth Soffer. The illustrations depict a rich array of species in their natural habitats: Trumpeter swan; Canada goose; Green-winged teal; Tundra swan; Emperor goose; Common loon; Ruddy duck; Mallard duck; Northern shoveler; Wood duck; Blue goose; Hooded merganser; and many more. Coloring these drawings and reading the informative captions offer not only hours of enjoyable entertainment but also a wonderful opportunity to learn to recognize and identify some of our most interesting and colorful native birds.

These 16 full-page illustrations, derived from classic sources, offer realistic portrayals of the best-known and most inspiring incidents from the Savior's life: the wedding at Cana, healing the sick, the Sermon on the Mount, raising Lazarus from the dead, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, and many other moving scenes. These beautifully re-created images glow like real stained glass when colored and held up to a light source.

There's more to the Ice Age than saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths! These 44 terrific illustrations showcase the diversity of animal life during the Pleistocene Epoch, better known as the Ice Age. Kids will have fun coloring while learning about flightless birds; giant lizards; ancient horses, lions, and bears; and many other creatures. Descriptive captions offer fascinating details about each animal.

The lives and achievements of notable African Americans spring to life in this carefully researched and finely rendered coloring book. Spanning over 150 years of American history, the volume pays tribute to figures in civil rights, music, sports, politics, literature, government, and other areas.Forty-five ready-to-color illustrations depict a group of remarkable people — Dred Scott, a slave who sued for his freedom in 1838; Sojourner Truth, a crusader for women's rights and racial equality; author Toni Morrison; Colin Powell, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and other notables, including Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Rosa Parks, Duke Ellington, Muhammad Ali, Marcus Garvey, Jesse Jackson, Eubie Blake, Mother Hale, Thurgood Marshall, Katherine Dunham, Marian Anderson, and many others.Captions for each illustration document individual accomplishments, making this not only an entertaining coloring book, but also an informative review of the many and varied achievements of African Americans.

While similar in general structure, lighthouses are actually quite individual in size, setting, keeper's houses and other aspects. Now largely automated, hundreds of theses maritime sentinels still stand guard along the shorelines of North America — their beacons indispensable guiding lights for ships at sea.This fascinating and carefully researched book invites coloring enthusiasts of all ages to color 36 detailed drawings of lighthouses in the United States and Canada, including St. Joseph, Michigan; Cape Hatteras, North Carolina; Drum Point, Maryland; Cape Cod (Highland), Massachusetts; Old Point Loma, California; Cape Henry, Virginia; Key West, Florida; Montauk Point, New York; Sandy Hook, New Jersey; North Head, Washington; Tybee Island, Georgia; West Quoddy Head, Maine; Portland Head, Maine; Race Rocks, British Columbia; and 22 others.Captions accompanying these accurately rendered illustrations provide valuable background information on location, height, and date of construction of each lighthouse.

A stroll through the magnificent natural museums known as botanical gardens refreshes the spirits while dazzling the senses. With this entertaining and fact-filled coloring book, nature lovers (and colorists, too) can visit 37 of these popular showplaces throughout the United States and Canada.Carefully researched and meticulously rendered illustrations range from the magnificent topiary sculptures at Green Animals in Portsmouth, Rhode Island to the lush palms of Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami, Florida. Other splendid sites include the Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, New York; Longwood Gardens in Kennet Square, Pennsylvania; the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.; the gardens at Virginia's Colonial Williamsburg and Monticello; the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx; Boyce-Thompson Southwestern Arboretum in Superior, Arizona; the Royal Botanical Garden in Hamilton, Ontario; and more.Each site is included on a full-page map of the United States and Canada and accompanied by captions that identify and describe each location. This collection of eye-filling illustrations is certain to delight naturalists of all ages.

Follow the numbers to color these lively pictures of adorable kitties! Young cat fanciers will fall in love with these 30 color-by-number pictures. An easy-to-follow numbered color guide appears on each page of amusing illustrations of cats sledding, swimming, celebrating birthdays, and enjoying other purrfect pastimes. Fun for home or school, this activity book will provide hours of entertainment for children ages 4 to 8.

Despite an often-hostile environment, frequent shortages of food and other necessities, and countless other hardships, the settlers of colonial America persevered to establish a lasting foothold on the new continent. This informative coloring book captures the stirring drama of life during pre-Revolutionary times with a fascinating variety of images from the colonial era.Forty-four detailed, accurate, and ready-to-color illustrations depict early seventeenth-century colonists arriving from Europe on wooden sailing vessels; encounters with Native Americans; the Spanish settlement at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565; and the thriving Dutch colony of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in 1653. Other illustrations include an early Pennsylvania farm home, the deck of a slave ship, a frontier fort, a colonial kitchen, and the Deerfield massacre of 1704.Each picture includes a descriptive caption that provides a brief history lesson. Colorists of all ages will enter into the spirit of early American life with this entertaining and educational coloring book.

Take a good look at the beady eyes, sharp teeth, and forked tongues of these monstrous reptiles. Thirty meticulously accurate mug shots for you to color depict a Galapagos tortoise, king cobra, American alligator, bearded dragon, flying lizard, thorny devil, and other animals. Brief captions accompany the portraits, and the inside covers feature full-body, black-and-white thumbnails of each reptile.