Come walk the sweeping face of me. Tumbleweeds bounce and roll along the ground. Lizards dart, tortoises creep, and snakes glide out of sight.The Mojave Desert is a special place. Its landscape is powerful and mesmerizing. Here is an extraordinary celebration of this vast and ever-changing wonder for readers and nature lovers of all ages.
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The creators of Heartland employ graceful verse and striking, expansive artwork in their tribute to one of nature's most panoramic sites. All ages.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Diane Siebert is the author of Mojave, a 1988 Booklist Children's Editors' Choice, a 1988 Notable Children's Trade Book in Social Studies, and a 1989 Teachers Choice, and Heartland , a 1989 Booklist Children's Editors' Choice, a 1989 Notable Children's Trade Book in Social Studies, and a 1990 Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts.Ms. Siebert lives at Crooked River Ranch, Oregon.
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The Desert Is Not A Wasteland,
By Bruce Crocker "agnostictrickster" (Whittier, California United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Mojave (Library Binding)
Mojave by Diane Siebert with beautiful paintings by Wendell Minor is an excellent book. The pair have collaborated on several books including this wonderful expositon on the Mojave Desert. Siebert's words do an excellent job at describing the ecology of the Mojave from the desert's point of view. The young reader will meet the landscapes, the rocks, the animals, the plants, the weather and the sounds of the desert. The paintings, with touches of Georgia O'Keefe and Andrew Wyeth, are simple evocations of the beauty of the desert. I often escape into the Mojave to get focused and I know first hand that the desert is a living, breathing place and not a wasteland. This book is a wonderful way for a young person to introduce themselves to the Mojave.
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The Sonoran has always received more interest than its Western sibling. Accordingly, there have long been children's books about the Sonoran Desert, as with "Cactus Hotel." Despite a population of millions of Americans, "Mojave" has long been the only young person's book about the desert. So in addition to this book's artistic merits, Diane Siebert and Wendell Minor's "Mojave" stands as the first nationally available book about the Mojave Desert for young readers. In the book, the desert is itself the narrator. Writing in the first person, the desert discusses her landscape, weather and animals. Through poetry, the reader comes to appreciate the wildness and flavor of the place. "Mojave" is a beautiful work but it has issues. First off, while marketed as a children's book, it has little appeal to young readers. The aesthetics of the book appeal more to mature readers. For example, Minor's illustrations are attractive but they are painted with an abstract and serious timbre that most children will find uninteresting. This is exacerbated when the text and pictures are only loosely related. "Mojave" reads as one long narrative; given the abstract tone, it might have been more effective if illustrations were directly connected with each poem. This is one of those books that few children will voluntarily read but adults will enjoy reading to kids. This isn't necessarily a bad thing since young people often need to be encouraged to appreciate literature that is outside of the popular culture. In the end, there is a strong alternative. While not exclusively about the Mojave, Frank Asch's "Cactus Poems" has enough Mojave related poetry to qualify as a successor. Beyond this, what children's lit really needed first wasn't a poetic book about the Mojave, but an introductory non-fiction title. While Ruth K. A. Devlin's "Desert Seasons: A Year in the Mojave" came closest, it managed to fumble meeting this need. "Mojave" is a beautiful book that was ahead of its time but it also left the door open for additional books about the Mojave for young people.
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