Books in Dover Nature Stained Glass Coloring Book series

Horses take hold of our imaginations when they gallop across the plains whinnying into the wind. But most of all, horses capture our hearts. And it's said they've done more to change human history than any other domestic animal. John Green skillfully portrays the legendary grace and beauty of this animal in a collection of 30 illustrations. Handsome equines — from Clydesdales to show horses — are depicted in the wild and at work. Brief captions supplement an impressive panorama of one of the world's best-loved and most highly prized animals.

Among nature's most fragilely beautiful creatures, butterflies are a delight to the eye as they flutter among the flowers of summer. Now children can re-create the loveliness of butterflies with this pocket-sized stained glass coloring book.Included are boldly outlined drawings on translucent paper of the Monarch, Red Admiral, Angle Wing, Swallowtail, and four other butterfly varieties. Just follow the coloring directions on the inside back cover to produce beautiful lifelike butterflies, then place near a window or other bright light source for an exciting stained glass effect.

Here's a delightful little book with triple appeal: it's a coloring book, it's an introduction to familiar birds, and it enables youngsters to create their very own works of stained glass art. Printed on translucent paper and boldly outlined in black are eight different species: red-breasted nuthatch, blue jay, northern cardinal, barn swallow, house sparrow, black-capped chickadee, robin, and downy woodpecker. Images can be colored with paints, crayons, or felt-tip pens, then hung in the light to produce a glowing stained glass effect.

Introduce children to the lovely world of flowers with this collection of clearly outlined illustrations. Youngsters will learn to identify a colorful bouquet of floral favorites as they color drawings of a daisy, rose, carnation, daffodil, tulip, orchid, poinsettia, and lily. Each picture has been printed on translucent paper that produces a lovely stained glass effect when colored and hung in a window or held up to the light.

With this little coloring book, children can enter the magical world of the unicorn. The enchanting mythical creature appears here in pastoral settings — reposing at a stream, prancing about near a turreted castle, silhouetted against a starry sky, and in other natural scenes. Crayons, paints, or felt-tip pens will animate these eight bold designs of the gentle beast. Young artists simply color the pictures and then hang them near a source of bright light to produce a luminous glow.

With this charming and instructive coloring book youngsters (and adults) can learn a great deal about the world's wild creatures and have fun at the same time. Detailed, accurate, ready-to-color illustrations depict 47 species from around the globe, including the rhinoceros (black, white, and Indian), Grant's zebra, impala, giraffe, camel (dromedary and Bactrian), European and American bison, llama and vicuña, giant panda, elephant (Indian and African), gnu (wildebeest), chimpanzee, hippopotamus and pygmy hippopotamus, gorilla, snow leopard, yak, Asiatic buffalo (water buffalo), jaguar, bighorn sheep, black bear, polar bear, black-backed jackal, reindeer (caribou), tiger, red kangaroo, giant anteater, and more.Each illustration is accompanied by a brief caption describing the habits of the species; many depict the animals as they might appear in their natural habitat — lions drowsing in the heat of the African veldt, a leopard lying in ambush on a limb, a giant panda contentedly munching bamboo, a polar bear and her cub surveying their icy domain, and more. Several double-page spreads depict exciting scenes of predator-prey relationships: muskoxen warily eying a pack of wolves, a mountain lion stalking mountain goats, and others. Colorists of all ages will find this exciting new volume irresistible; artists and designers will also find practical use for these accurately rendered royalty-free illustrations.

Everyone can recognize the bright cardinal by its brilliant scarlet plumage, or the blue jay by its equally striking azure, black, and white coloration. But how many can quickly identify the bobwhite, the myrtle warbler, or the red-eyed vireo? Few of us, yet they are far from rare. Like most of the dozens of birds in this book, they may be easily and frequently spotted in or near cities and towns in most parts of the United States and Canada.Become familiar with all of these common yet beautiful species through these 46 large, lifelike drawings. Accurately rendered by artist Lisa Bonforte, these birds will quickly impress themselves on your memory as you enjoy coloring their variegated plumage. Captions provide common and scientific names as well as seasons and ranges in which the birds occur. All 50 species are also illustrated in full color on the covers.This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive series, which means that graphic artists and designers will value these drawings as a convenient source of royalty-free art.

They're found in snowflakes, seashell spirals, the petals of flowers, and other objects. They're called mandalas — round designs filled with circles, squares, triangles, and other figures. This coloring book invites you to color 8 of these fascinating patterns. When you're finished, place the pictures in a window or near another source of bright light and watch them glow like stained glass.