Bøger i Dover Nature Coloring Book serien

This treasury of detailed, accurately rendered illustrations (including two double-page spreads) invites coloring book enthusiasts to bring over 40 species of butterflies to life in vivid color. Here are such delicately beautiful creatures as the black, salmon-orange, white and blue painted lady, the rapid-flying dogface butterfly, with wing markings that look like a poodle's profile, and a host of others: pipevine swallowtail, monarch, buckeye, white admiral, olive hairstreak, Milbert's tortoiseshell, great spangled fritillary, ruddy daggerwing, fiery skipper, mourning cloak, tiger swallowtail, red admiral, and many more, all of them found in the United States or Canada. Fact-filled captions provide information about each species' coloration, range, habitat, special characteristics, and more. All are shown in full color on the covers. An excellent source of nature illustrations for artists and craftspeople, this delightful coloring book can also be used as an accurate, inexpensive nature identification guide. Original Dover (1992) publication.

Detailed, accurate drawings of 44 familiar blooms: fringed gentian, lady-slipper, ivy-leaved morning glory, yellow iris, globe thistle, wild calla, desert marigold, many more. Captions. Excellent source of royalty-free illustrations.

Forty-two detailed, accurate, ready-to-color renderings of an octopus, ghost crab, beach plum, oystercatcher, herring gulls, kelp, anchovies, many more. Introduction. Captions.

From harmless-looking ants and flies to sinister spiders and scorpions, this colouring book abounds in lethal insects and arachnids. Twenty-five realistic drawings depict a deadly host of mosquitoes, fire ants, ticks, and beetles.

Thirty exciting illustrations depict highlights from the permanent collection of the world-famous museum in New York City, with amazing scenes of an elephant herd, the skeleton of a gigantic T-rex, a lifelike Komodo dragon, an Easter Island sculpted head, a Haida canoe, a hut built of mammoth bones, and more. Informative captions.