Download or read book Desert Life of the Southwest Activity Book written by Karen Krebbs and published by Color and Learn. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Amazing Animals and Plants of the Desert! Children often imagine the desert as a barren, lifeless place--but the Chihuahuan, Great Basin, Mojave, and Sonoran deserts are brimming with plant and animal life. Learn about the wonders of this amazing habitat and how animals survive there in an interactive introduction by Karen Krebbs that's sure to occupy kids for countless hours. Through coloring pages by Phil Juliano, word finds, mazes, and more, young nature lovers will discover fascinating facts about everything from scorpions andjavelinas to sagebrush and cacti. Your children will never view deserts the same way again!
Download or read book Desert Life written by Karen Krebbs and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about more than 80 species of plants and animals—and how they survive in the Chihuahuan, Great Basin, Mojave, and Sonoran deserts. Although it may look barren, the desert is teeming with life. Have you ever wondered which animals and plants thrive in the American Southwest and how they survive? This fantastic guide reveals the answers! Desert Life is filled with stunning photography and fascinating information from Karen Krebbs, a naturalist with more than 30 years of experience studying desert life. Featuring such entries as mountain lions, owls, snakes, and scorpions, as well as cacti, yuccas, and more, this guide to plant life and wildlife provides the information you want to know. Inside you’ll find: Spotlight on more than 80 species of desert plants and animals Special emphasis on how to spot them and how they survive Engaging information about the Chihuahuan, Great Basin, Mojave, and Sonoran deserts “Wow” facts about diet, predators, lifespan, and more From plants and small insects to large mammals, the species featured in this book provide an entirely new understanding of life in the desert!
Download or read book Southwest Desert Wildlife Nature written by James Kavanagh and published by . This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southwest Desert Wildlife Nature Activity Book presents a unique way for children to learn about desert life forms. Puzzles, word games, and drawing activities helps a child learn to identify birds, lizards, flowers, and insects found in a desert habitat. This soft cover book is an educational tool and will keep children entertained for hours, while they learn.
Download or read book Desert Dwellers written by and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative text and striking full-color photos introduce readers to the various native peoples of the American Southwest. From the Hopi, Pueblo and Apache to the Pima and the Navajo, learn the spiritual and cultural connections and the importance of tradition and community to the Indian groups in this region.
Download or read book Here Is the Southwestern Desert written by Madeleine Dunphy and published by Web of Life Children's Book. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its stark landscape and harsh climate, the Sonoran Desert teems with life. Hare, hawks, lizards, bobcats, badgers, coyote — all live among the desert’s fragrant mesquite and spiny cactus, and none can exist without the others. Madeleine Dunphy’s poetic text explores all the warm and native elements that make the American Southwest such a mystical place, while Anne Coe's stunning paintings portray the desert’s plants and animals as well as the dazzling colors reflected in the rocks and skies of the Sonoran Desert.
Download or read book Desert Life Sticker Activity Book written by Steven James Petruccio and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-05-13 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youngsters are introduced to the wonderful diversity of desert life when they apply 34 sticker illustrations of a mountain lion, Gila monster, rattlesnake, and other creatures to a laminated backdrop.
Download or read book The Sonoran Desert by Day and Night written by Dot Barlowe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] coloring book, filled realistic illustrations, [which] follows wildlife and plants--from tiny lizards and delicate flowers to coyotes and giant saguaros--through a twenty-four-hour cycle"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Desert Baths written by Darcy Pattison and published by Arbordale Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about twelve animals and how they stay clean in a dry parched environment, including a bobcat, a quail, and a roadrunner.
Download or read book The Mystic Mid region written by Arthur Jerome Burdick and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southwest Indian Designs Coloring Book written by Dianne Gaspas and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clearly rendered illustrations on 30 pages display authentic designs taken from rugs, masks, sandpaintings, pottery, jewelry, baskets, and other artifacts created by southwestern Native Americans. Geometrical designs on a Navajo woven saddlebag, a Chumash rock painting of mythical creatures, a Hopi kachina doll, an Apache "crown headdress," and more.
Download or read book Desert Town written by Bonnie Geisert and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-03-26 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth book in the Geiserts’ series on small towns which conveys the wonder and personality of everyday life in the United States.The hot, dry desert town is prone to harsh conditions, but the town is full of life and readers are witness to many cheerful happenings over the course of the year. The Geiserts have once again captured the authenticity and essence of small-town America.
Download or read book Desert Life in the American Southwest written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on desert life in the Southwestern United States. Includes information on the environment, animals, plants, and people of the desert. Offers information on desert ecosystems and the roles played by humans in the desert environment. Contains information on ordering related books, software, and other products.
Download or read book Southwest Indians Coloring Book written by Peter F. Copeland and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 40 detailed illustrations: Navajo medicine man and braves, Apache chiefs, Hopi pottery makers, Pueblo flute player, drum makers of the Taos pueblo, Zuni turquoise driller, more. Captions.
Download or read book The Great Southwest Activity Book written by Luna Rising Editors and published by Cooper Square Pub. This book was released on 2004 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of Southwest-themed crosswords, word finders, mazes, and other amusements for kids who are traveling through the area.
Download or read book 101 Questions about Desert Life written by Alice Jablonsky and published by Western National Parks Association. This book was released on 1994 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of one hundred and one questions about life in the desert.
Download or read book The Desert Southwest written by Allan Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful art book tells the story of the "other Southwest," tracing the history of centuries of conflict and resolution between Natives, Hispanics, and Anglos, as well as their respective artistic accomplishments. This far-reaching collection of artifacts invites you to explore the achievements and art of cultures that overcame unfathomable obstacles to build the Southwest that we know today.‚Ä¢ An exhaustive exploration of Southwestern archeological ruins, academic archives, historic documents, and the holdings of private and public art collections from El Paso to Los Angeles, Zuni to Chihuahua.‚Ä¢ Includes more than 250 color photographs of rare, archival art alongside engaging historical text.Reviews"The text is light, entertaining, and subtly educational. The photos are fun and nostalgic. It has deeper currents and soul than one might first expect. The book is an invigorating afternoon well spent." -Bill Broyles, Southwest Books of the Year, 2006"The photography and illustrations are brilliant." -San Francisco Chronicle"This is one book you won'¬?t be able to put down until you reach the end."-True West Magazine"Historical text and vibrant photos."-Alaska Airlines Magazine
Download or read book A Desert Harvest written by Bruce Berger and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning collection of Bruce Berger’s beautiful, subtle, and spiky essays on the American desert Occupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger’s essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape and culture of the American Southwest. Combining new, unpublished essays with selections from his acclaimed trilogy of “desert books”—The Telling Distance, There Was a River, and Almost an Island—A Desert Harvest is a career-spanning selection of the best work by this unique and undervalued voice. Wasteland architecture, mountaintop astronomy, Bach in the wilderness, the mind of the wood rat, the canals of Phoenix, and the numerous eccentric personalities who call the desert their home all come to life in these fascinating portraits of America’s seemingly desolate terrains.
