This book brings to life the astounding images of the natural world created by Bouquet, Professor of Drawing Prytanee of Paris in the early 1800's. These full color plates were created for the book "Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets," written by Francois Levaillant. Each plate was individually printed, then attached to the book. In recent years, these outstanding images were digitized, and can be found at www.archive.org. As a grandfather to eight, the author had read many books about colors to toddlers and young children. In a word: boring. There is so much form and color in this world that cartoon like drawings can not communicate. The author asked himself, "What in the world has enough primary colors to teach little ones?" His answer was either frogs or parrots. Then, he stumbled upon "Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets" by Francois Levaillant. While the 19th century French was difficult, the images were astounding. He had found the perfect medium for teaching color names to children everywhere."