Bøker av Jan Sovak

Beautifully detailed full-page images form a gallery of 46 common and exotic butterflies. Follow the numbered guide to create accurate portraits of a ruddy daggerwing, luna moth, white admiral, and other species.

Create a giant underwater seascape with 24 unbacked, ready-to-colour illustrations. Individual images of sharks, fish, turtles, seaweed, coral, and a sunken ship fit together into a 44 x 47 poster.

Fearful images of 16 gigantic, long-dead beasts that ruled the Earth for some 160 million years include lifelike portraits of the dreaded Tyrannosaurus rex, the triple-horned Triceratops, the bony-plated Stegosaurus, and the long-necked, 85-feet-long Brachiosaurus. Color these massive reptiles then place near a source of strong light for a dazzling display.

Teeming with anacondas, jaguars, toucans, and tarantulas, this activity/coloring book takes kids on an Amazon adventure that offers lots of learning along the way. Its realistic illustrations are fun to color before or after seeking out the hidden pictures, and the fact-filled captions are loaded with information about rainforest animals and plants.

Nine prehistoric monsters - from the bony-plated Stegosaurus to the long-necked Brachiosaurus - each realistically portrayed 4 times in lifelike illustrations. Also includes the Dromaeosaurus, Coelophysis, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Ankylosaurus, Albertosaurus, Chasmosaurus, and Triceratops. 36 total stickers.

Ten designs: desert tarantula, black widow spider, ladybug, sandhills hornet, praying mantis, desert scorpion, bumblebee, 3 more.

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.