Here Is the Southwestern Desert

by Madeleine Dunphy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977379566
• ISBN13: 9780977379569
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Web of Life Children's Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 9.9" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 3 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Marvelous book for a child

I just loved Here is the Southwestern Desert, but what's more important is that my twenty-one month old daughter can't get enough of it. We read it to her at least once a day, because if we don't she protests quite audibly. The story is simple and insightful, and the art is just amazing. There are so many things that she picks out of each painting. She loves the animals and flowers. All the desert flora and fauna in the book are represented in a way that she can truly enjoy.