An intimate and informative portrait of a single day in the Sonoran Desert captures the plant and animal life of the region, in a richly illustrated study that offers personal anecdotes and observations about the region.
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Grade 3-6?An artist's readable narrative accompanies her accomplished drawings in this slim, colorful volume. Wright-Frierson invites readers to spend a day in her company, savoring the Sonoran Desert of the American Southwest. She presents a dawn to dusk panorama in a profusion of watercolor sketches and a brief, conversational text. While calling to mind Jennifer Dewey's Night and Day in the Desert (Little, 1991) or Joyce Powzyk's Wallaby Creek (Lothrop, 1985), this artist's sketchbook is intensely personal. Her goal is not scientific depth, though the snippets of information may well entice the intellectually curious to conduct further investigations. Rather, her "scrapbook" serves to give a rich impression of a unique ecological environment: a feel for a landscape of compelling extremes and the creatures who have adapted to meet its unforgiving demands. Admirably done.?Patricia Manning, Eastchester Public Library, NY
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Gr. 3^-5, younger for reading aloud. This is a lovely tribute to the Sonoran Desert by an author-illustrator who has spent many hours observing and sketching there. Writing in the first person, Wright-Frierson describes the many sights she has seen on her rambles and includes handsome watercolors of animals, insects, and plants, as well as tinier pieces of the desert's landscape, such as quail eggs, butterfly wings, a prickly pear pad, and even cottontail droppings. The picture-book format makes this accessible to younger children as well as middle-graders who might use it for school reports. Highly evocative and quite beautiful, this will give readers a real sense of the desert and what is hidden just below its expansive surface. Ilene Cooper
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A Must For Every Elementary School Classroom,
This review is from: A Desert Scrapbook: Dawn to Dusk in the Sonoran Desert (Hardcover)
This book is so very full of incredible information about deserts. Amazing illustrations too!Buy it and show your kids! They'll keep coming back to it!
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Great for learning about the Sonoran Desert,
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This review is from: A Desert Scrapbook: Dawn to Dusk in the Sonoran Desert (Paperback)
I use this book at school when we are learning about the Sonoran Desert. I love the scrapbook style and the real connections the author makes. I use it to encourage my students to keep a nature journal.
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This review is from: A Desert Scrapbook: Dawn to Dusk in the Sonoran Desert (Paperback)
Our family loved this book! Truly beautiful illustrations, really lovely prose text. Teaches about life in the Sonoran desert, yes, but also about how to observe wildlife, how to appreciate the little bits of beauty to be found in so many "scraps" of nature around you everywhere. Introduces the idea of a nature journal and sketching and so forth, too. When our science curriculae calls for it, I will be looking for other books by the same author/illustrator. Don't miss her work!
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