Backyard Nature Coloring Book (Dover Nature Coloring Book)

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.