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Dinosaurs: A Smithsonian Coloring Book
Dinosaurs come to life--with your help! The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and IDW Publishing present a fascinating new coloring book that provides a beautiful and informative tour through the prehistoric world of dinosaurs.
With this exquisitely designed coloring book, dinosaur lovers of all ages can explore millions of years of animal wonders, guided by experts from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the artistic wizardry of Rachel Curtis ( The Princess A Storybook to Color ). These lush pen and ink illustrations invite you to step into captivating scenes featuring the herbivorous Stegosaurus, the sea-dwelling Hesperornis , the giant sauropod Camarasaurus , the mighty Tyrannosaurus , and many more. Fans of dinosaurs, coloring books, and natural history will find an enchanting world to unlock with their own creativity.
Each page of A Smithsonian Coloring Book not only stands alone as a work of art, but is also accompanied by brief and fascinating insights from the museum's Paleontology experts about each dinosaur and its world, ensuring that time spent coloring is also time spent learning.
This book's deluxe ivory paper allows for a variety of artistic media like pen, pencil, or even watercolor, to ensure your creative vision comes to life just the way you want--and lasts for years to come.
With this exquisitely designed coloring book, dinosaur lovers of all ages can explore millions of years of animal wonders, guided by experts from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the artistic wizardry of Rachel Curtis ( The Princess A Storybook to Color ). These lush pen and ink illustrations invite you to step into captivating scenes featuring the herbivorous Stegosaurus, the sea-dwelling Hesperornis , the giant sauropod Camarasaurus , the mighty Tyrannosaurus , and many more. Fans of dinosaurs, coloring books, and natural history will find an enchanting world to unlock with their own creativity.
Each page of A Smithsonian Coloring Book not only stands alone as a work of art, but is also accompanied by brief and fascinating insights from the museum's Paleontology experts about each dinosaur and its world, ensuring that time spent coloring is also time spent learning.
This book's deluxe ivory paper allows for a variety of artistic media like pen, pencil, or even watercolor, to ensure your creative vision comes to life just the way you want--and lasts for years to come.
80 pages, Paperback
Published November 24, 2020
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Smithsonian Institution
3,739 books39 followersFounded in 1846, the Smithsonian Institution or simply the Smithsonian is a group of museums, education and research centres created by the United States federal government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge"
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April 2, 2021
You can tell when an organization or a brand has jumped on the coloring craze without really looking into what folks who color want. In this case, Smithsonian has taken their skills as scientists and artists, and made a very informative book about dinosaurs but they haven't made a color friendly layout. Let me explain what I mean as a lifetime coloring fan.
The information about the dinosaur is on the opposite page. Great if you are just looking through the book but this leads to the bigger problem in the book. The image go into the binding area. There is no way you can color the entire image when it is from edge to edge but there is no easy way to either lay the book flat enough or to take the pages out. What this book needs is to make the book lay flat (spiral binding works great for that) or perforate the pages so they can be removed; make sure the great facts then are the on the back of the page.
The information about the dinosaur is on the opposite page. Great if you are just looking through the book but this leads to the bigger problem in the book. The image go into the binding area. There is no way you can color the entire image when it is from edge to edge but there is no easy way to either lay the book flat enough or to take the pages out. What this book needs is to make the book lay flat (spiral binding works great for that) or perforate the pages so they can be removed; make sure the great facts then are the on the back of the page.
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