Customer Reviews

Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus (Tree Tales)

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Our third grade loved your book. It gave us a lot of information about the desert. The illustrations were excellent. We especilly liked the use of author techniques such as diagrams, onomatopeias, catchy title and colorful illustrations. We would love to contact Barbara Bash.

We have been reading many different desert books for a unit study. It seemed that we kept running across the same old information in every book. Then we read this one! It tells you things that you just don't find in other books. This turned out to be our favorite book. The pictures are wonderful and it is easily understandable by young children, thought adults will learn a thing or two as well! Highly recommended.

This book is very educational to use in a classroom or an education focused day camp and is not an easy read as a story book at bedtime.

I have used this book every year as a third grade teacher. It is wonderful as a read aloud for science to illustrate how animals and plants adapt to their environment and rely on other plants and animals for survival. This is one of the best books I have ever read to my class because it is not dull science jargon but presented as the story of the life of the cactus. Don't miss this one for teaching and learning about life science in the desert.

We used this book in our 2nd grade class as a reader and for our science class on plants. We wanted to look at desert plants. Then we used it again in our next science subject which was on mammals, reptiles and amphibians. Children loved the beautiful art work.

This is a cute and informative book. The illustrations are enjoyable, too. It taught me something about the giant cacti and will interest children in them and the desert eco system.

You will learn a lot about the animals that live in the desert. Very educational and interesting. Love it!

The grandkids loved the book. They live in Tucson and see the Saguaros every day!