New Releases by Bruce Lafontaine

Adventure awaits with these entertaining, accurate images of space exploration and the history of astronomy. Stargazers of all ages will find fascination amid 110 illustrations, including 22 double-page spreads of constellations.

Make way for a parade of shiny vehicles that really move! Eighteen stickers depict motorcycles, big trucks, ambulances, police cars, and other exciting vehicles.

Ten glowing images of powerful fire engines to apply separately wherever you want, or line them up -- one after another -- for a colorful parade.

Imagine yourself behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT2 Twin-Turbo Coupe! Here are the cars most of us just dream about — sleek, fast, fabulous machines that cost a small fortune! Thirty precisely and accurately rendered illustrations portray the legendary luxury cars that race through our imaginations: Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Coupe, BMW Z8 Convertible, Maserati Spyder 2-door Convertible/Roadster, Rolls-Royce Phantom 4-door Sedan, Jaguar XJ220, Bugatti EB 110S 2-door Coupe, and other automotive marvels. Detailed captions provide specs and other information (including top speed and acceleration time). And they come in any colors you choose to make them!

Thirty drawings depict such famous trains as Europe''s Orient Express, the observation lounge on the Burlington Zephyr, and a sleeping compartment on New York Central''s 20th Century Limited.

Twelve glistening images of fast fire engines, powerful tow trucks, and other major movers will add instant interest to a lot of flat surfaces.

Color and light make a bulldozer, cement mixer, excavating shovel, dump truck, and 4 other colossal vehicles roar to life.

Brightly colored images of the Santa Fe Super Chief of 1946, Twentieth Century Limited (1938), Burlington Zephyr (1935), and nine others.

Twelve glistening, ground-hugging models with a metallic shine and all the latest features -- rear deck spoilers, stripes, mag wheels, and more. Great for notebooks, poster paper, and other flat surfaces.

Handsome, ready-to-color images, attractively rendered in precise detail, depict the sleek 1950 Mercury two-door sedan, luxurious 1952 Cadillac four-door sedan, 1953 Buick Skylark convertible with wire wheels, 1957 Lincoln Continental Mark II, and 26 other impressive models. Captions. 30 black-and-white illustrations.

From adobe pueblos in the Southwest to a Chippewa birch bark wigwam in the Northeast — this carefully researched coloring book spotlights a wide array of Native American dwellings. Fact-filled captions accompany each detailed drawing. 30 black-and-white illustrations.

An entertaining pictorial tribute to America''s legendary lumberjack features 26 captioned illustrations depicting Paul creating Niagara Falls, swinging an axe head on a rope to cut down dozens of trees at once, and forming the Rocky Mountains in the West and the Alleghenies in the East by digging a trench in between.

Exciting pictorial history of the development of quick, efficient transport for public safety personnel--from a 1904 paddy wagon and a S.W.A.T. van of the 1970s to a state police armored car of the 1990s. Extensive captions include facts and statistics. An exciting collection for coloring book fans

A parade of powerful engines, from the vintage Firefly steam locomotive of 1840 to Amtrak''s Acela Express of 2000. 17 stickers.

Accurately rendered illustrations spotlight the many efforts to establish a docking station in space, including a 1950s concept for a "spoked wheel," similar to the docking station depicted in the 1968 film 2001, A Space Odyssey; the Russian MIR Complex (1986-2001); astronauts and cosmonauts constructing Alpha; and more. 30 illustrations.

Included are images of an 18-wheeler, a monster truck, cement mixer, tanker truck, flat-bed tow truck, armored truck, and 10 other models. 16 full-color stickers on 4 plates.

Spaceships blasting through space and other futuristic images glow with stained glass effects when colored and placed near a source of bright light. 8 illustrations.

Fascinating book chronicles factual and fantastic aspects of Mars in 44 dramatic ready-to-color illustrations, among them a scene from Ray Bradbury''s classic novel Martian Chronicles; Hollywood''s film versions of War of the Worlds and Invaders from Mars, views of the Mars probe Pathfinder/Sojourner (1997), the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, and much more. Informative captions.

Sixteen beautiful stickers of racing cars, ranging from the 1911 Marmon Wasp Indy car to the 1997 Lola Ford Grand Prix racer. 16 full-color stickers on 4 plates. Identifications.

45 accurately rendered illustrations of dynamic flying prototypes: Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet, the Bell X-1 rocketplane, the diminutive McDonnell XF-85 Goblin "parasite," more. Descriptive captions.

Sixteen colorful images of a backhoe-loader, wheeled cement mixer, mega bulldozer, and more will form an awesome parade of brawny machines across notebooks, desks, lockers, and other flat surfaces.

Eight different antique engines include steam locomotives from Lehigh Valley (1940), England (1938), New York (1936), Milwaukee (1937), and 4 more. Place colored pictures near bright light for spectacular stained glass effects.

Forty accurately rendered residences and birthplaces -- from George Washington''s first home in Virginia to Barack Obama''s childhood house in Honolulu. Includes fact-filled captions and a map.

Forty-four dramatic, ready-to-color illustrations chronicle human attempts to explore the watery realms, from a crude Roman diving suit with a floating air bag (AD 375) to the 21st-century nuclear sub Seawolf. Captions.

Over 40 years of sports car history in 16 realistic peel-and-apply images—from a jade green 1952 Jaguar XK-120 to a crimson 1998 Chevy Corvette. Includes identifying captions.

28 pictures of Lindbergh as barnstormer; as mail pilot; crossing the Atlantic in 1927; as WWII fighter pilot, and more. Informative captions.

12 peel-and-apply time-honored machines: 1905 Indian, 1928 Norton CS-1, 1936 and 1951 Harley-Davidsons, 1990 Suzuki GSX-R750, and 7 others.