The Burgess Animal Book for Children Coloring Page Collection

I made you a present. Actually, I made it for Q-Age-Seven, and then thought wouldn’t-this-be-fun-to-share?

And I think it would be.

So I’m sharing.

Basically, I made a chart. This year, Q-Age-Seven is reading through The Burgess Animal Book for Children. For various reasons, A-Age-Nine never formally did this book. When E-Age-Twelve did this book, he was Officially Against Coloring. So I never did the coloring pages thing.

But Q-Age-Seven adores coloring and thinks that makes the book more fun. So we read, and then she colors these pages, trying to make them look as close to Real as possible.

This chart, then, has the chapter from the book and the animal{s} introduced in the chapter. Each animal’s name is linked to a coloring page I found online that I will either be printing directly, or cutting and pasting into a Word doc and then printing. I would have made you a .pdf file, except that that would be a gross violation of copyright law.

So a chart is the next best thing, right?

And here it is:

Chapter	Animal{s}
1	cottontail rabbit
2	marsh rabbit, varying hare
3	arctic hare, antelope jack, common jack rabbit
4	gray squirrel, red squirrel
5	fox squirrel, alber and kaibab squirrels
6	california ground squirrel, flying squirrel, striped chipmunk, ground squirrel
7	woodchuck
8	hoary marmot, prairie dog
9	pika, mountain beaver
10	pocket gopher
11	porcupine
12	beaver
13	muskrat, brown rat
14	wood rat, kangaroo rat
15	wood mouse, meadow mouse (vole)
16	brown lemming, jumping mouse
17	pine mouse, also a sort of taxonomy tree which might prove interesting (scroll down)
18	house mouse, california pocket mouse, grasshopper mouse, harvest mouse
19	common shrew, short-tailed shrew, marsh shrew
20	mole, star-nosed mole, hairy-tailed mole,
21	red bat, little brown bat, big brown bat, hoary bat
22	spotted skunk, common skunk, hog-nosed skunk
23	badger, wolverine
24	weasel, black-footed ferret
25	mink, otter
26	marten, fisher cat
27	red fox, kit fox, gray fox, arctic fox
28	coyote, wolf
29	lynx, bob cat
30	cougar/mountain lion, jaguar, ocelot, jaguarundi
31	ring-tailed cat, racoon
32	black bear
33	grizzly bear, polar bear
34	opossum
35	white-tailed deer, mule deer
36	elk, moose, caribou
37	buffalo, antelope, musk ox
38	bighorn sheep, rocky mountain goat
39	collared peccary, armadillo
40	walrus, california sea lion, fur seal, harbor seal, elephant seal, hooded seal, manatee

Q-Age-Seven will likely want to color every. single. animal. on this list. She’ll have to finish up on her own time, because I’m not going to spend her designated lesson time watching her color. When it comes time for O-Age-Almost Six to do this book, my guess is that I’ll have him pick one animal from each chapter and color it. He likes to color, too, but not nearly so much as Daughter Q.

Anyhow, I hope that you and your little coloring-lovers have a fun time with this!