Colorists with a fondness for these high-spirited animals will be delighted with John Green's accurate renderings of 30 different equine breeds, among them showhorses such as the Andalusian and Missouri fox trotter, sleek thoroughbreds, pintos, Arabian, and sturdy workhorses
You may think a Gila monster's cute, but you wouldn't want to cuddle one. (It's one of the world's two venomous lizards!) Award-winning nature artist Sovak has accurately rendered ready-to-color, lifelike portraits of this reptile and 29 other scaly creatures, including a leaf-tailed gecko, a blue-tongued skink, a Komodo dragon, and a ferocious-looking marine iguana.
Twenty-nine species of birds, each accompanying a different letter of the alphabet, appear in an appropriate setting. Bluebirds frame the letter "B," an ibis stands as high as the letter "I," and an "S" curves around the bodies of three mute swans. Identifying captions included.
36 delightful puzzles invite children to spell names of pictured objects (carrot, game, door), people (doctor, cowboy, acrobat), animals (chicken, horse, snake) and more. Blanks—with some letters filled in—and word grids accompany each series of pictures. Solutions at end.
Animal Friends from Around the World (Dover Coloring Books)
Easy-to-color scenes introduce youngsters to camels (Egypt), a penguin (Antarctica), parrot (Brazil), kangaroo (Australia), panda (China), and 25 other creatures of land, sea, and air. Each simply drawn scene also includes a smiling youngster wearing a traditional costume from the country represented.
