While most colouring books off er fanciful recreations of the wonders of nature, Mark Mu?ller’s realistic drawings allow you to embellish real-world birds, plants, and animals with all the colours you can imagine. Layer your creative whimsy on his meticulous accuracy. Go ahead, ink in a hot pink bison or a turquoise sandhill crane or a buttery yellow tree frog, pouring magic into reality.

Turn the tallgrass prairie’s pale purple coneflowers ruby red, the black swallowtail butterfly into a green-dotted swallowtail, or white-tailed deer in to fuschia-tailed. Why shouldn’t red-winged blackbirds fl aunt salmon epaulets, or American goldfinches turn coppery, or rose-breasted grosbeaks celadon-breasted? Amid the creatures teeming in the midwestern grasses and wetlands on these pages, you’ll even find the most common invasive species-see if you can find the garlic mustard and the emerald ash borer! Here is The Wild Midwest as it really is, for your colouring pleasure.