Shells of the World Coloring Book

By Lucia de Leiris and Lucia deLeiris

Color dozens of shells from around the world -- from Australia's poisonous textile cone to Florida's flamingo tongue. Mollusks build colorful shells around themselves for camouflage and defense. Shells also attract humans for their beauty and value. This ready-to-color collection offers nearly a hundred of these hard-shelled wonders from around the world.
Shown in native habitats that include oceans, reefs and beaches, you'll discover spider conches and jackknife clams from the Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Bay scallops from New England, fig shells and white-edged augers from Australia, tropical giant clams from Japan, and many other mollusks. Captions include common and scientific names.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486243680
• ISBN13: 9780486243689
• Release Date: March 1983
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.0" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 7 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 6

Customer Reviews

Love. a classic dover coloring book for kids or adults.

Love. a classic dover coloring book for kids or adults...with accurate illustrations of shells. Each drawing has a list of the shells' names, both common and scientific. I like to google them so I can color them accurately! or you could just be creative and have fun. This was an older Dover book with nice thick paper. With care, I even used watercolor on some of them!