Sonoran Desert A to Z Coloring/Learning Book [Paperback]

Conrad J. Storad (Author), Donna S. Atwood (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2002

Sonoran Desert A to Z is a coloring/learning book of 26 plants and animals that make their home in the Sonoran Desert. The book features high-quality illustrations of each plant and animal along with informative text. It is a beautiful coloring book as well as a useful classsroom learning tool for young readers or an inexpensive field guide for desert explorers. The book is bound like an artist's notepad and printed on recycled paper.

This is the second revised edition, featuring a new cover and updated text and graphics.

In 1999, Sonoran Desert A to Z won the Glyph Award for the best book from an Arizona new publisher.

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About the Author

Author Conrad J. Storad didn't experience the desert and all its quirky characters until 1982, when he relocated from his native Barberton, Ohio to begin graduate school at Arizona State University. Storad is the founding editor of Chain Reaction, a science magazine for young readers. He is also the editor for the nationally award winning ASU Research Magazine. No stranger to written work, he is the author of several nature and science books for children and young adults. His titles include Don't Call Me Pig!, Lizards for Lunch, Little Lords of the Desert, Ancient Harvest, and Saguaro Cactus. When he's not working, Storad escapes to the wilds of Arizona, Wyoming, Utah and Montana for some well-earned relaxation by backpacking and fishing.

Illustrator Donna S. Atwood is an award-winning artist and graphic designer with over 25 years of professional experience. She has owned her own design studio for more than 20 years, and her clients have ranged throughout all sectors of industry, including real estate, commercial, non-profit, banking services, educational, and manufacturing. Her work has won dozens of design awards.

Since 1997 she has published and illustrated three coloring/learning books about the Southwest. Little Lords of the Desert, Ancient Harvest, and Sonoran Desert A to Z , which received a 1999 Glyph Award from the Arizona Book Publishers Association for best book from a new publisher. She has also illustrated and published Rhode Island A to Z, a coloring/learning book all about our nation's thirteenth state.

Donna lives in historic Phoenix with her cats Sam and Leonard.

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Donna Atwood Design (February 2002)
• ISBN-10: 0966029364
• ISBN-13: 978-0966029369
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,887,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Conrad J. Storad Storad is the author of more than 40 science and nature books for children and young adults. Rattlesnake Rules is his brand new picture book. He hopes the book will help to demystify an amazing but often maligned creature. Get a sneak preview at www.RattlesnakeRules.com In November 2010, the Arizona Author's Association gave the book an award for Best Children's Literature. In May 2010, the book won a Glyph Award for Best Children's Illustration from the Arizona Book Publisher's Association. It was also an Honor Book in the Children's Fiction category. In 2009, Storad's book Gila Monsters won the Glyph Award as Arizona's Best Children's Non-Fiction Book. In 2008, his Meerkats won the coveted ABPA Best Book Award. In 2005, as part of her program to promote reading, then Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano selected Storad's Don't Call Me Pig! (A Javelina Story). More than 93,000 Arizona first graders received a special edition copy. In 2001, the Arizona Library Association honored Storad with the Judy Goddard Award as "Arizona Children's Author of the Year."

Storad's other picture books include Desert Night Shift (A Pack Rat Story), Life in the Slow Lane (A Desert Tortoise Tale), Lizards for Lunch (A Roadrunner's Tale), and Don't Ever Cross That Road! (An Armadillo Story). The books have won many awards. Other Storad books are part of special series published by Lerner Publications. All are written for readers in grades 2 to 4. Titles include: Saguaro Cactus, Scorpions, Tarantulas, Hippos, Earth's Crust, and The Circulatory System. New titles include Mars, Fossil Fuels, Gila Monsters, Javelinas, Galapagos Tortoises, and Piranhas. In 2009, to celebrate its 12th year in print, Donna Atwood Design published a newly revised edition of Sonoran Desert A to Z, Storad's popular coloring/learning book. Other books in the series include Little Lords of the Desert (Arachnids and Insects), Flying Colors (Beautiful Birds of the Southwest), and Ancient Harvest (Plants used by Native People of the Southwest).

In February 2010, Storad retired as director of the Office of Research Publications at Arizona State University. For more than 24 years he wrote and edited stories about science, scholarship, and creative activity taking place at the nation's largest public university. He was the founding editor of the nationally award winning ASU Research Magazine. He also was founding editor of Chain Reaction, an award-winning magazine for young readers that highlights stories about science, learning, and creative activity taking place at ASU. Check it out at http://chainreactionkids.org Storad will now devote his full time and energy to writing interesting non-fiction books for young readers. He also does author presentations for schools and conducts nonfiction writing workshops for students and teachers across the country. Learn more about his school presentations at www.conradstorad.com

Prior to working at ASU, Storad worked as a reporter, editor, and general manager for The Barberton Herald newspaper in northeast Ohio. He was a science/medical writer for the U.S. National Cancer Institute, a freelance magazine writer, and a science/feature writer at Kent State University. He earned a degree in mass media communication from the University of Akron in 1979, and a master's degree in mass communication/science journalism from ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication in 1983. He was a Year 2000 inductee to the Cronkite School's Journalism Hall of Fame. Storad is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, Arizona Book Publisher's Association, and the University Research Magazine Association.