Dahlov Ipcar is best known for her vibrant collage-style paintings of jungle and farm animals. This clearly evident love of animals is due in part to the summers she spent with her family in Maine. In 1923 the Zorach family (her parents were the famous artists William and Marguerite Zorach) bought a farm at Robinhood Cove in Georgetown, Maine. It was during a Maine summer that Dahlov met her future husband Adolph Ipcar. They married in September 1936 and after living in New York City for a short time, they moved permanently to Maine. where she still lives today.

A mother makes her little boy a quilt covered with jungle trees, flowers and animals. Every night the little boy looks at all the animals and trees and when he gets to the end of the quilt he sees that the animals are all sleeping.

Looks at the life and work of Dahlov Ipcar, a Maine artist who expresses her talents in a variety of media, from tapestries and fabric sculpture to children's book illustrations

Follow a whimsical day in the life of a Bug City family, with imaginative illustrations of real insects by American artist Dahlov Ipcar This charming bug family (Mama is a ladybug and Papa is a daddy longlegs) share a day in Bug City, where they go shopping (for calico moths and velvet ants, of course!) and visit the zoo with rhinoceros beetles and ant lions. Their quaint, busy lives, augmented by Dahlov Ipcar's flamboyant, colorful illustrations, make a charming story for readers to enjoy and learn how to identify a wide variety of bugs.

Take a journey to the bottom of the sea with the gentle merman farmer who tends fanciful fields of sea cucumbers and sea beans with the help of his two sea horses. He must defend his cowfish and sea hens from fierce sea lions and tiger sharks, and free any sea creatures caught in traps or nets dropped from above. Legendary artist Dahlov Ipcar brings this enchanting undersea world to life with her vibrant illustrations and clever transformation of a traditional farmer’s tasks to a deep sea setting.

Big Betty is the one horse on the farm, and she works hard all year long at the different jobs which need doing on a farm, until the day a tractor takes over.

In this unheralded civil rights allegory composed in the heat of the early 60s, two little dogs frolic and dream of adventures beyond their wildest imaginations, from jungles of the Congo with towering ebony elephants to the whitewashed, frigid arctic where the icy white polar bears roam. Dahlov Ipcar once again pairs her timeless illustrations with fresh original verse that celebrates the unity, wonder, and beauty of the living, breathing natural world around us.

Wild animals including the flamingo, panther, and kangaroo introduce each letter of the alphabet. On board pages.

Discover a kaleidoscopic spectrum of wonderful and colorful creatures by journeying into all the possibilities to encounter your favourite animals.

Examines how such woodland animals as squirrels, frogs, turtles, moths, and deer blend into their environment and stay hidden from predators and people.