Charley Harper's What's in the Desert

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Hike the American desert in the fourth book in Pomegranate's successful Nature Discovery Series. Charley Harper's What's in the Desert? explores a surprising abundance and variety of flora and fauna. Meet the desert dragster known as the Greater Roadrunner while keeping an eye out for the lizards he likes to lunch on. Zoe Burke's rhyming text introduces young readers to thirty-six different denizens of the desert, from the Gila Monster to the Gila Woodpecker, the Cactus Wren to Cactus flowers. All are depicted with colorful images taken from Harper's painting The Desert, originally featured on a poster commissioned by the US National Park Service. The entire painting is reproduced on a foldout page at the end of the book, with a key identifying all the featured desert life. Fully illustrated. Includes a foldout key identifying all the featured desert life. Smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket.