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.
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.
