Millie Marotta's Precious Planet

A brand new colouring collection from number 1 bestselling illustrator Millie Marotta, exploring a subject very close to her heart – wildlife conservation.

This fascinating book features 90 amazing animals from around the world, with a focus on endangered and vulnerable species. Containing a rich mix of wildlife from the much-loved snow leopard to the the adorable axolotl, from the vibrant ladybird spider to Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, it’s a celebration of creatures that are currently at risk but that humanity is making efforts to save.

Use your pencils or pens to bring colourful life to a wealth of wonderful animals, all rendered in Millie’s beau­tifully intricate style, including:

• Big beasts like the Javan rhino, the wild camel and the elusive mountain gorilla
• Treasures of the sea: the humphead wrasse, the mini blue bee shrimp and the majestic blue whale
• The insects that pollinate our world: many different bumblebee species, the monarch butterfly
• ‘Lazarus species’, thought to be extinct but now discovered in the world, such as the coelacanth and the New Caledonian crested gecko, and a few long-extinct and near-mythological animals – the woolly mammoth and the sabre toothed tiger.

Printed on high-quality paper with minimal show-through, suitable for all sorts of colouring media, this is a glorious treasury of the animals we don’t want to lose.

Author Biography

Millie Marotta is a freelance illustrator working in her studio by the sea in a little corner of Wales. She has developed a mild obsession with all things floraand fauna, which along with intricate pattern and detail remains an ongoing theme in her work, whether it be for a commission or simply to indulge her ownflight of fancy. She works in both traditional and digital media and enjoys working on a diverse range of projects which include editorial, advertising, merchandising, design for web, textiles and bespoke original works. Her clients range from Virgin Atlantic to Penguin Books. She is the author of Millie Marotta’s Animal Kingdom.