Patricia J. Wynne's Books

Genes are what make you YOU With 46 illustrations and easy-to-read captions, this book explains that genes are "chemical instructions" that living things need in order to stay alive and reproduce. Learn about genes and DNA, what genes control and how they are passed along from one generation to the next, and lots more about this fascinating subject. Perfect for ages 8 and up, it will spark children's curiosity and help foster their interest in science.

Chemistry is all about what's happening in the air, under the sea and ground, and inside every living thing — including you! With 46 pages of fun-to-color illustrations and fact-filled captions, children ages 8 to 12 can explore atoms and molecules, why carbon is so important, how our bodies break down food, what is causing global warming, and much more.

Presents fifteen models designed to introduce students in kindergarten through third grade to the pilgrims, their voyage on the "Mayflower," and their settlement in Plymouth.

These 28 fun and instructive illustrations offer an entertaining way for children to learn how their bodies work. Simple text answers such questions as: What is a hiccup? and Where is my DNA? Free Teacher's Manual available. Grades: 1–2.

Classic Sketchbook: Cats shows how it's done by showing museum-quality works, then coaching you to try the techniques with the help an expert's suggestions. Whether scribbling out a quick sketch with minimal detail, or making a finished portrait where every silky hair and polished whisker stands out, the best cat artists can capture the very essence of feline-ness. How do they do it? Firsthand observation of cats will tell you a lot about the way they sit, yawn, tweak their tails, and curl up to sleep, but it won't tell you how to get those things down on paper. Classic Sketchbook: Cats is the second in a series of instructional books that began with Classic Sketchbook: Botanicals. The series shows how to draw your subjects by looking at the details of museum-quality works, then coaching you through the techniques with the help an expert's suggestions. In this case the expert is Patricia Wynne, a noted illustrator with a specialty in animals. Wynne will guide you through fur, paws, and eyes, as well as cats sleeping, playing, or pouncing. Her unique instructions places a close-up of a drawing or painting by a noted artist like Gauguin, Chardin, Gwen John, and Theodore Steinlen on the left side of the page. And on the right side of the page Patricia Wynne coaches you with detailed, step-by-step drawings, that illuminate the process.

Everyone who loves horses will be amazed to see the many forms these creatures have taken since their first appearance over 50 million years ago. Thirty images range from the very first horse, which was no bigger than a house cat, to the familiar animals of today.

Illustrations of 25 sites of New York CIty with appeal to grade-school children, such as the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the ships at South Street Seaport, mummies at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History. Suitable for coloring, with informative captions accompanying each illustration.

Winner of the Bronze 2016 Moonbeam Award for Education, Science, and History! The ideal introduction to meteorology for kids, this volume presents 46 full-page illustrations with related text. Children will learn about blizzards, tornadoes, rainbows, mudslides, and other natural phenomena.

They're scary, but they're smiling — these grinning skulls and skeletons are full of creepy fun! The 15 luminous stickers look even better in the dark, when their great bone structure positively glows. Whether it's Halloween or just an ordinary evening, kids will look forward to "lights out.

This guide to making dioramas, 3-D paper models, includes easy, step-by-step instructions for 12 models of familiar habitats and the animals that live in them, companion observation sheets that teach about polar regions, rain forest, oceans, and more. Illustrations.

Thirty-one original designs present spectacular combinations of natural elements — from flora to fauna — in eye-opening, full-page patterns. Illustrations are printed on only one side of the perforated pages for easy removal and display. Previously published as NatureScapes.

Where do we live among the galaxies, what did people think before they could study the sky with telescopes, and what happened to Pluto? Thirty-nine illustrations to color answer these and other questions about our Solar System and beyond. Entertaining, easy-to-understand captions explain crater formation, constellations, weightlessness, space junk, and other fascinating subjects. Suitable for ages 8–12.

Colorists can re-create magnificent works by the famous American painter and naturalist with these 31 painstakingly rendered reproductions. Captions identify illustrations of titmouse, great horned owl, condor, and other birds.

How big was the largest dinosaur? The smallest? The fastest? All of these answers and more are in this fact-filled coloring book. Simply by following the dots, playing hidden word games, doing crossword puzzles, working through mazes, and solving "what's wrong" pictures, kids can learn about the "terrible lizards" that lived millions of years ago.

Contains easy instructions for making twenty models, manipulatives, and mini-books that will teach students in grades two through four about the human body.

Presents reproducible patterns and instructions for creating eighteen models that provide insight into life in the thirteen American colonies, and includes background information and extension activities.

Children ages 8 and up can discover where these prehistoric creatures lived, the food they ate, and what they may have looked like. Plus, there are fascinating facts about moving continents, climate changes, exploding volcanoes, and more.

Complete with in-depth captions, 30 scientifically accurate illustrations follow the exploration of Antarctica from 1772 to the 1930s. The book is rich with images of explorers, wildlife, and frozen landscapes.

How does the brain control the rest of the body? How does it enable the senses, regulate speech, affect balance, and influence sleep and dreams? These 30 full-page illustrations to color help explain every aspect of the brain's big job, from communicating with the central nervous system to retaining memories.

Illustrations to color and easy-to-follow text introduce children to twenty-three items found in the American Museum of Natural History's permanent collection.

An illustrated survey of the earth describing how it was formed, and including information on different types of rock, weather and erosion, the formation of mountains, and plate tectonics.

This splendid safari of fun features wildlife from every continent. Kids travel from rainforests to deserts with 34 activities -- mazes, connect-the-dots, coloring, crosswords, hidden pictures, and more. Solutions included.

Here's the most entertaining way for children to get a good look at the human body and learn how bodies work: 28 fun and instructive, ready-to-color illustrations. Coordinating text explores the muscular, skeletal, nervous, digestive, respiratory, and immune systems, and answers such questions as What is a hiccup? and Where is my DNA?

Kids will love learning about penguin life cycles, anatomy, feeding habits and more with fun projects and activities, including instructions on how to create 15 movable models and manipulatives. Illustrations.

Colorful collection includes 12 Mesozoic monsters in natural habitats: Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Spinosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and 8 more.

By building models which illustrate the workings of our planet, students learn about rocks, minerals, erosion, natural disasters, and moving plates.

This informative, fun-to-color book introduces kids ages 8-12 to the many different worlds of engineering with realistic illustrations and easy-to-understand captions. It’s the perfect book for the next generation of STEM students.

Children can explore the earth's largest ecosystem through 46 detailed, factual, and ready-to-color illustrations. They can discover how the seas determine both the climate and the weather, encounter tiny plants and animals, and more.

Six fantastic portraits of prehistoric feathered reptiles offer a half-dozen ways to show that your interest in natural history goes back a long way. Dinosaur enthusiasts and tattoo lovers alike will prize these dynamic specimens of body art.

Forty puzzles provide a flutter of entertainment and include mazes, connect-the-dots, crossword puzzles, coloring pages, color-by-numbers, hidden picture scenes, word codes, and more. Kids will learn to identify various butterflies and moths, discover the difference between a proboscis and a palp, and find out about the life cycle of these winged beauties

Physics is fun! It's all about pushing and pulling, running and jumping, rainbows and rockets — it's even about sports! Physics involves the sun and the moon and all the things around you, including how you use energy and how animals and plants do, too. This is the book you'll want to use to discover fascinating facts about gravity, light, heat, sound, and other wonders such as thunder and lightning and volcanoes. Find out how things move, how you see and hear, what electricity is, and what's inside an atom. These 46 detailed, full-page illustrations with easy-to-understand captions will introduce you to the most basic concepts of physics, using memorable examples drawn from nature.

Twenty-four puzzles with solutions and eleven drawing and coloring activities provide loads of entertainment for children who enjoy doing mazes, word games, coloring, connect-the-dots, and other pleasant pastimes. Free Teacher's Manual available. Grades: 1–2.

This ready-to-color collection of 30 detailed illustrations includes scenes from the life of the Egyptian boy-king, as well as his death mask, furniture, jewelry, sculpture, and other rare artifacts found at the burial site. A delight for coloring book fans, and anyone fascinated by the glories of ancient Egypt.

Colossal and teensy, swift and sluggish, these mammals tend to extremes. Thirty captioned images portray remarkable creatures, from extinct cousins of the rhinoceros to modern kangaroos, bats, and elephants.

Seashells on the sand, peacocks in flowering magnolia trees, butterfly fish in elkhorn coral, and rainbow-billed toucans in golden liana vines. These and 26 other ready-to-color illustrations present spectacular combinations of natural elements in glorious full-page patterns.

Forty-six illustrated pages with easy-to-read captions combine the fun of coloring with learning fun facts about both common and uncommon insects that inhabit the Earth.

Forty-six challenging mazes feature such Mesozoic monsters as the long-necked Apatosaurus, the Flying Archaeopteryx, the sea-dwelling Aspidorhynchus, as well as Iguanodon, Protoceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, and other creatures. Brief captions identify animals and explain objectives. Solutions included.

Your brain uses our five senses — sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch — to figure out what's going on in the world around you. This book shows how your senses work by combining easy-to-understand explanations with detailed illustrations for you to color. You'll also find out about similarities and differences between human and animal sensory perception. Discover the nervous system, the pathway of sensory information, and how neurons receive and send data. Read about synesthesia, an extreme form of perception that enables people to hear sounds in response to smell, feel something in response to sight, and experience other unusual sensory combinations. Learn about special animal senses that detect heat, provide night vision, and alert birds, fish, and mammals to when it's time to migrate. These and other fascinating aspects of the senses are described and illustrated with 46 full-page illustrations to color.

Easy mazes, geared toward ages 4-8, transport kids back in time to herd bewildered dinosaurs to their destinations. With the enclosed 3-D glasses, the colorful creatures leap right off the page.

Book's by Patricia J. Wynne

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