Kids love animals as much as they love to draw and color. The goal of the ColorSmart educational coloring book series is to provide easy-to-understand, factual information to accompany the fun of drawing and coloring. Our English-Russian DuoRead edition promotes early language learning as well. We believe that learning where a creature lives and what he eats only adds to the fun, and builds awareness that the animals with which we share our world are more than anthropomorphic cartoon characters - they're living things that deserve our respect, love and protection. ColorSmart educational coloring books contain words that are easy for children to read or have read to them. The English text is generally rated at the fifth- or sixth-grade level by the Flesch-Kincaid readability test. The book challenges young people to do more than merely color pictures. They are encouraged to augment the drawing with their own pictures of animals and the environment. This inspires creativity by providing information while leaving details to the child's imagination.