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Desert Picture Books

Albert, Richard E.
ALEJANDRO'S GIFT
Alejandro builds an oasis for desert animals.
J-Picture Albert

Anaya, Rudolfo A
ROADRUNNER'S DANCE
Desert Woman creates an animal that gets past a Rattlesnake in the road.
J-Picture Anaya

Arnold, Caroline
WATCHING DESERT WILDLIFE
Explains what a desert is and what lives there.
574.526 Arnold

Arnosky, Jim
WATCHING DESERT WILDLIFE
Describes desert animals.
591.754 Arnosky

Bash, Barbara
DESERT GIANT: THE WORLD OF THE SAGUARO CACTUS
Explains the life cycle of the saguaro cactus and the animals around it.
583.47 Bash

Flanagan, Alice
DESERT BIRDS
Discusses desert birds.
598.291 Flanagan

Green, Jen
A SAGUARO CACTUS
Describes the animals supported by this giant cactus.
583.56 Green

Hiscock, Bruce
COYOTE AND BADGER: DESERT HUNTERS OF THE SOUTHWEST
Follow these two animals through desert days and nights.
J-Picture Hiscock

Jablonsky, Alice
101 QUESTIONS ABOUT DESERT LIFE
All about desert plants and animals.
591.909 Jablonsk

Lerner, Carol
A DESERT YEAR
Studies a desert in the American southwest.
574.5 Lerner

Lowell, Susan
THE THREE LITTLE JAVALINAS
Southwest version of the three little pigs.
J-Picture Lowell

Lowell, Susan
THE TORTOISE AND THE JACKRABBIT

Southwest version of the tortoise and the hare.
J-Picture Lowell

Marsh, T.J.
WAY OUT IN THE DESERT
A counting book about desert animals and their young.
J-Picture Marsh

McDermott, Gerald
COYOTE: A TRICKSTER TALE FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
Crows try to teach a coyote to fly.
J-Picture McDermot

Lesser, Carolyn
STORM ON THE DESERT
Describes how a thunderstorm effects the desert wildlife.
J-Picture Lesser

Saltzmann, Mary Elizabeth
IN THE DESERT
Describes what you see in the desert.
J 578.754 Saltzmann

Sayre, April Pulley
DIG, WAIT, LISTEN: A DESERT TOAD'S TALE
Shows the life of a spadefoot toad.
J-Picture Sayre

Stevens, Janet
COYOTE STEALS THE BLANKET: A UTE TALE
Coyote learns what happens when he takes a blanket that does not belong to him.
J-Picture Stevens

Wallace, Marianne D.
AMERICA'S DESERTS: GUIDE TO PLANTS AND ANIMALS
A field guide to America's deserts.
J 574.973 Wallace

 

 
 

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