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Audubon's Birds of America Coloring Book Paperback – Coloring Book, June 1, 1974
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Including the red-winged blackbird, painted bunting, wood duck, great blue heron, ruby-throated hummingbird, purple finch, and blue jay, 46 different species of birds from all parts of the United States are included in this book. The pictures have been faithfully redrawn by Paul E. Kennedy from originals by John James Aububon (1785–1851), the most famous American painter-naturalist.
For each species, the caption supplies the modern common and scientific names and the current range (by general region). No distinction is made between breeding range and winter range. Only the area of the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii, is considered. The birds shown are usually adult males when the caption does not give the information on age and sex.
Audubon's original plates, numbered to correspond to the pages of the book, have been reproduced in color on the covers. If you follow them, you will not only have a great deal of coloring pleasure, but you will also learn how to identify many important birds.
- Reading age8 - 14 years
- Print length48 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level4 - 3
- Dimensions8.25 x 0.25 x 11 inches
- PublisherDover Publications
- Publication dateJune 1, 1974
- ISBN-10048623049X
- ISBN-13978-0486230498
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For each species, the caption supplies the modern common and scientific names and the current range (by general region). No distinction is made between breeding range and winter range. Only the area of the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii, is considered. The birds shown are usually adult males when the caption does not give the information on age and sex.
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Including the red-winged blackbird, painted bunting, wood duck, great blue heron, ruby-throated hummingbird, purple finch, and blue jay, 46 different species of birds from all parts of the United States are included in this book. The pictures have been faithfully redrawn by Paul E. Kennedy from originals by John James Aububon (1785–1851), the most famous American painter-naturalist.
For each species, the caption supplies the modern common and scientific names and the current range (by general region). No distinction is made between breeding range and winter range. Only the area of the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii, is considered. The birds shown are usually adult males when the caption does not give the information on age and sex.
Audubon's original plates, numbered to correspond to the pages of the book, have been reproduced in color on the covers. If you follow them, you will not only have a great deal of coloring pleasure, but you will also learn how to identify many important birds.
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- Publisher : Dover Publications; CLR edition (June 1, 1974)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 48 pages
- ISBN-10 : 048623049X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0486230498
- Reading age : 8 - 14 years
- Grade level : 4 - 3
- Item Weight : 7.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.25 x 0.25 x 11 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #107,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #466 in Children's Bird Books (Books)
- #1,382 in Children's Coloring Books
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Customers appreciate the coloring book's extremely detailed illustrations and find it great for teaching children about birds. Moreover, the book is fun to color and serves as a stress reliever, while being suitable for both adults and older children. Additionally, customers find it an excellent value, with one mentioning it includes 36 Audubon bird illustrations for $3.
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Customers appreciate the illustrations in this coloring book, describing them as extremely detailed and beautiful pages to color.
"...Even without artistic talent, I love my renderings and plan on keeping the completed books to look at a few years from now or give some of them to..." Read more
"...The pages are nicely done, including enough detail for advanced colorers, and certainly large enough (11 x 8) to have fun displaying the completed..." Read more
"This Coloring Book has great sketches of Birds, Very Authentic & yet it’s designed poorly. One has to take it apart to make it usable!..." Read more
"Small color pictures to color by, might need to look up the birds to see them better. A little information about the birds on each page...." Read more
Customers find this coloring book educational, particularly for teaching children about birds, and one customer mentions it helps in recognizing them.
"...This is a wonderful book for anyone who likes birds and I highly recommend it!" Read more
"...The pages are nicely done, including enough detail for advanced colorers, and certainly large enough (11 x 8) to have fun displaying the completed..." Read more
"...an in and outdoor birding project related to the environment, appreciation of birds and preventative information related to birds in the middle of..." Read more
"...A little information about the birds on each page. For older children and adults." Read more
Customers find the coloring book enjoyable, with one mentioning it keeps them busy for hours at a time, and another noting it's a great way for kids to learn about Audubon's paintings.
"...birds and I looked through it before giving it to her, enjoying each and every page!..." Read more
"...You can get really creative...." Read more
"...if you want the children to learn about nature/birds while having fun coloring! Excellent drawings. Grandchildren - ages 5, 7, 9 & 11 love it!" Read more
"...These will help relax you and lets your imagination frolic. The only thing is, they can be addicting. I have several of them." Read more
Customers find the coloring book to be an excellent value, with one customer noting it includes 36 Audubon bird illustrations for just $3.
"...The prices for these are very reasonable, too, often $3.99 or less, and this one is just $3.35 with free 2-day shipping if you have Amazon prime!..." Read more
"...into "Audubon's Birds of America Coloring Book" make art accessible to anyone with a few bucks...." Read more
"This is a wonderful deal! $3 for 36 Audubon bird illustrations to color. The cover even includes the images in color, for reference...." Read more
"...adult themed coloring in books with this being the perfect solution at a most reasonable price...." Read more
Customers appreciate that the coloring book is suitable for both adults and older children, with one customer mentioning their grandchildren enjoy it.
"...Great idea for adults or kids who have advanced coloring skills." Read more
"...A little information about the birds on each page. For older children and adults." Read more
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"...Highly recommend for both adults and children. If you love nature, you will love coloring these pages." Read more
Customers find the coloring book helps them relax and serves as a stress reliever.
"...These will help relax you and lets your imagination frolic. The only thing is, they can be addicting. I have several of them." Read more
"...It is a lot of fun and a great way to destress." Read more
"I am so enjoying coloring again. It's a stress reliever and the pictures in the book are beautiful." Read more
"What more could an adult ask for? Fun, stress release, and learn from a master!" Read more
Customers appreciate the detailed illustrations in the coloring book, with one mentioning that the samples and descriptions are great.
"...These aren't not kids coloring books! They are more detailed, and I use colored pencils on some, fine point gel pens on others and a wide range of..." Read more
"my 6 yr old the bird lover LOVES this coloring book. the samples and descriptions are great, too. educational and fun at the same time." Read more
"I don't want to mess it up by coloring it! The detail is great and there are colored pictures so you can be accurate." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2016I bought this book for a friend who loves birds and I looked through it before giving it to her, enjoying each and every page! Dover has been publishing these kinds of books for many years, on a large number of topics, long before the recent adult coloring book revolution, and I bet you can find some on your bookshelf that you bought years ago! The prices for these are very reasonable, too, often $3.99 or less, and this one is just $3.35 with free 2-day shipping if you have Amazon prime! The only drawback for these books is that they are printed back-to-back so if you use markers they bleed through and ruin the picture on the other side. However the detailed drawings really call for colored pencils where you can do shading, and this book is perfect for that! Or, you can copy the page you want to color on good quality copy paper of the weight you prefer (I like the Hammerhill color copy cover paper, 60 lb. weight, which is like a very light cardboard like you would use as a cover to a report). This is a wonderful book for anyone who likes birds and I highly recommend it!
- Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2014I got many of these books in different themes and love coloring them. You can get really creative. I don't have an artist's talent, so I enjoy creating my own color combinations, although there are colored pictures of all of them on the covers so you can follow those or come up with your own. These aren't not kids coloring books! They are more detailed, and I use colored pencils on some, fine point gel pens on others and a wide range of felt tip colors on most. I usually do these in the evening when I need to wind down and they work wonders for me. Even without artistic talent, I love my renderings and plan on keeping the completed books to look at a few years from now or give some of them to an elderly friend who loves them when I finish coloring them. Great idea for adults or kids who have advanced coloring skills.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2009Paul E. Kennedy's renderings of 36 of John James Audubon's birds into "Audubon's Birds of America Coloring Book" make art accessible to anyone with a few bucks.
The colorer has two approaches to a finished product: (1) go wild, use the imagination, use colors of your choice, or (2) try to recreate Audubon's colors.
The pages are nicely done, including enough detail for advanced colorers, and certainly large enough (11 x 8) to have fun displaying the completed artwork. The quality of the paper certainly surpasses that of most common coloring books.
Among the included birds are these: American Flamingo, Purple Finch, Screech Owl, Brown pelican (my state bird), Robin, White-throated Sparrow, Brown Thrasher, and, of course, the Wild Turkey.
In case the colorer does not have an actual Audubon book for a guide, Kennedy includes three pages of small illustrations from Audubon's book.
One could spend a pleasant hour doing something else, but an hour with Audubon, an array of coloring tools before you, Haydn's "Piano Concerto No 2" with Maurizio Pollini on the CD player, and a cup of coffee in reach--now there's an hour of bliss!
- Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024This Coloring Book has great sketches of Birds,
Very Authentic & yet it’s designed poorly. One
has to take it apart to make it usable! That’s why it’s cheap. I would order again, with the knowledge of it’s problems. You basically have to dismantle book & use a clipboard to make it worth the trouble. The detail in the works take longer to do but next to coloring flowers, birds
are satisfying & a challenge‼️
- Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2025Read the detailed description online— really helpful. More detailed than expected though and, of course, given Audubon involvement extremely accurate with just the right amount of narrative. Using in village Center as part of an in and outdoor birding project related to the environment, appreciation of birds and preventative information related to birds in the middle of Avian Flu. 🕊️
- Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2023Small color pictures to color by, might need to look up the birds to see them better. A little information about the birds on each page. For older children and adults.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2017Audubon's Birds of America has 46 pages to color and colored pictures to use as guides. All the information that is included with the birds is wonderful to see.
There are so many people including young ones that want to learn all they can about birds and this is a great book to get. Depending on the age of the person you may gift it to, you may want to color them first. After all, we want to share the enjoyment don't we?
This book will continue giving for years to come so I can't stress it enough about making sure to have something under your picture if it isn't removable so you won't leave imprints on the picture under it or color markings from the one already done. You don't want anything to mess up your hard work on these wonderful pictures in any of these books.
5.0 out of 5 starsAudubon's Birds of America has 46 pages to color and colored pictures to use as guides. All the information that is included with the birds is wonderful to see.Birds of America to Color
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2017
There are so many people including young ones that want to learn all they can about birds and this is a great book to get. Depending on the age of the person you may gift it to, you may want to color them first. After all, we want to share the enjoyment don't we?
This book will continue giving for years to come so I can't stress it enough about making sure to have something under your picture if it isn't removable so you won't leave imprints on the picture under it or color markings from the one already done. You don't want anything to mess up your hard work on these wonderful pictures in any of these books.
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2016Disappointing. A number of the illustrations only fit part of the page. The illustrations are too detailed for my taste. The illustrations are beautiful otherwise.I think I'm going to keep the book,but not use it for coloring. I did find one of the illustrations to be very disturbing,It's an illustration
of a snake which is about to pounce on a bird in the nest. Please keep this in mind if you are thinking of purchasing this for a child.As an adult,I found this illustration upsetting, If I were giving this to a child,I'd remove that page. It could give a child nightmares.
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- Nami 🧡Reviewed in Mexico on August 22, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Really nice.
Love it! (Dog isn’t included)
Nami 🧡Really nice.
Reviewed in Mexico on August 22, 2020
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- Mrs. W. A. ThornleyReviewed in the United Kingdom on December 11, 2012
5.0 out of 5 stars Art
Excellent little book, maybe intended for children but as an adult I love it and bought another for my sister.
- LReviewed in Canada on July 6, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book
Beautiful book. Looking forward to using it in our Nature Study/Science this year.
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2nimmReviewed in France on September 15, 2012
5.0 out of 5 stars livre de coloriage ornithologique de bonne qualité
livret anglophone agrafé souple grand format ancien (1974) présentant quarante six espèces d'oiseaux nord-américains en n&b prêts à être coloriés; chaque espèce est représentée sur une page; en bas de page, le nom anglais et latin de l'espèce; les images en couleur servant de modèles sont tirées d'Audubon et sont reproduites sur les pages de garde; ce livre de coloriage non exhaustif mais bien fait et sérieux sera parfait pour l'initiation à l'ornithologie d'enfants de plus de sept ans suffisemment soigneux et patients pour s'appliquer; je dois reconnaître avoir été favorablement surpris par la qualité de cette publication, ayant été échaudé par plusieurs tentatives précédentes, et je dois dire que j'ai enfin trouvé ce que je cherchais et j'envisage d'acquérir d'autres ouvrages de la même série (taper sur le moteur de recherche d'amazon: Dover birds coloring book); je pense qu'il vaut mieux préférer les ouvrages neufs même s'ils sont légèrement plus chers pour éviter le risque de se retrouver avec un exemplaire crayonné!
- Annemarie A. BelangerReviewed in Canada on July 31, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Audubon's BIrds a challenge to color
Looking forward to coloring these pictures of birds. Audubon's drawings of wildlife are fantastic. Will be a challenge to color them, try to make them look good but not great like Audubon's drawings.
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