Books in Dover Nature Coloring Book series

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.

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.

In terms of numbers, distribution, and long-term survival, insects are probably the most successful of all animals. Entomologists estimate there are more than two million living species, at least half of them as yet unidentified. In this volume, illustrator Jan Sovak has captured the astonishing diversity of size, shape, and coloration in the insect world in precise, carefully researched depictions of 45 species: elephant stag beetle, earwig, giant desert scorpion, walking stick, tiger beetle, desert tarantula, black widow spider, human flea, pleasing fungus beetle, and many more. By coloring these plates, colorists will not only enjoy hours of coloring fun but also learn, through informative captions, fascinating facts about insect life.

Thirty close-up illustrations will put colorists face-to-face with some of the ocean's most frightfully fascinating inhabitants. Realistically detailed images range from a wobbegong and goblin shark to a blobfish and sea lamprey. Each full-page rendering features a brief caption, and black-and-white, full-body thumbnails of all these underwater creatures appear on the inside front cover.

Meet the Australian bulldog ant, renowned for its powerful jaws and painful sting; the rhinoceros beetle, which literally locks horns with its rivals; and the rainforest-dwelling giant tiger centipede. Each of the creatures depicted in these 30 images — including a cicada, horsefly, ladybug, mosquito, and others — is complemented by an inset illustration of the whole specimen. Fascinating facts about each insect make this book a coloring and learning delight.

Wild animals in our midst come to vibrant life in this unique, carefully rendered coloring book from nature artist Dot Barlowe. You'll find 42 meticulously rendered black-and-white illustrations of creatures often seen in suburban or even city backyards. Included are a garter snake in a rock garden, two whitetail deer (Virginia deer) in a vegetable patch, a garden spider weaving a web among forsythia, Japanese beetles on a rose blossom, a box turtle in a strawberry patch, and chickadees amid branches of white pine as well as raccoons, slugs, honey bees, grackles, cardinals, gray squirrels building a nest, and a host of other flora and fauna.Captions accompany the illustrations, identifying the subjects in this fascinating, fun-filled collection. Backyard Nature Coloring Book is sure to delight nature lovers and to provide hours of entertainment for colorists of ages.

Ready-to-color, double-page illustrations introduce stargazers of all ages to 22 major constellations, among them Aquarius, the water bearer; Orion, the hunter; Gemini, the twins; and Aries, the Ram; as well as Canis Major, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Virgo, and more.An informative accompanying text relates the mythological story behind each constellation's name and identifies its principal stars as well as galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, and other features associated with the constellation. To help viewers locate these fascinating star formations, charts on the inside front and back covers show generalized positions of the constellations in the Northern Hemisphere during summer and winter.Entertaining and fact-filled, this clearly rendered collection is also a great source of royalty-free art suitable for a variety of art and craft projects.

Embark on your very own whale-sighting excursion with the striking coloring book collection of fascinating marine mammals.Artist John Green's carefully researched and accurately detailed drawings depict 44 species of sea-going and fresh-water animals, revealing striking characteristics of such intriguing cetaceans as the Bottlenose Dolphin, Commerson's Dolphin, the Irrawaddy Dolphin, and the Amazon Dolphin (Boutu). Also depicted are a number of common and less-common species of whale: Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Goosebeak Whale), North Atlantic Bottlenose Whale, Sperm Whale, Blue Whale, Killer Whale, and the astonishing ivory-tusked Narwhal.

Founded in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City has played an important role in promoting an understanding of world cultures and a comprehension of the natural sciences. Among its most important achievements has been the accumulation of artifacts — from reconstructed dinosaur skeletons and stuffed birds to tribal costumes and primitive sculptures. This coloring book takes young fans of natural history on an exciting tour that covers 23 amazing subjects in the Museum's permanent collection, as well as the Rose Center of Earth and Space.Included are depictions of an elephant herd, the skeleton of a gigantic Tyrannosaurus rex, a lifelike Komodo dragon, an Easter Island sculpted head, a Haida canoe, the Star of India sapphire, and a hut built of mammoth bones. An informative caption accompanies each accurately rendered picture. Suitable for ages 6 and up.