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Title details for A Day in the Life of the Desert by Roxie Munro - Available

A Day in the Life of the Desert

6 Desert Habitats, 108 Species, and How to Save Them

by Roxie Munro
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Tour 6 North American deserts in 24 hours from day break in the Mojave Desert through midnight in the Great Basin.
This meticulously illustrated picture book takes readers on a cross-continental tour in 24 hours, visiting 6 different deserts at different hours of the day, and returning to each desert as night falls. Meet the critters that call these habitats home, from the turkey vultures that fly under the hot daytime sun to the gila monster that crawls across the cool nighttime sand.
While exploring the desert, young readers can play hide and seek with all kinds of desert creatures! Every nook and cranny is filled with critters big and small for readers to identify using the matching key at the bottom of the page.
However, these incredibly important, fragile ecosystems are in danger. On the daytime visits, children in grades 2-4 can learn about the challenges these deserts and animals face due to climate change, invasive species, and other threats.
When returning to each desert at night, readers can also learn about what’s being done to protect these unique habitats. The deserts depicted are the Mojave, the Chihuahuan, the Great Basin, the Sonoran, Painted Valley, and Death Valley.
Budding naturalists can dive into the extensive material in the back of the book, including an author’s note with age-appropriate resources on how to get involved, a glossary with science vocabulary, and a bibliography.
The Books for a Better Earth™ collection is designed to inspire young people to become active, knowledgeable participants in caringfor the planet they live on. Focusing on solutions to climate change challenges, the collection looks at how scientists, activists, andyoung leaders are working to safeguard Earth’s future.
A Green Earth Book Award Recommended Title

  • Creators

  • Series

    Books for a Better Earth

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 15, 2023

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780823455232
    Kindle restrictions

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      April 1, 2023
      Grades K-3 Munro's latest nature-themed book invites readers to explore North American deserts and learn about their fragile ecosystems through an informative text, illustrated with pictures and maps. Each desert landscape is shown twice, featuring diurnal animals in daylight and nocturnal creatures at night. The text often comments on the effects of humans on desert ecosystems through climate change and factors such as water diversion, hunting, off-road vehicles, wildfires, pipelines, mining, and drilling for oil and gas. Children drawn to seek-and-find picture challenges will enjoy exploring the individual illustrations in detail to identify the creatures mentioned in an adjacent list. A lengthy appended section revisits each desert with "Fun Facts" and highly simplified versions of both illustrations, along with numbers indicating exactly where the animals listed can be found. The illustrations, created with acrylic and India inks, are well designed to display the varied types of plants and animals found in these deserts. The discussion concludes with suggested ways of supporting the environment rather than contributing to climate change. A welcome addition to classroom units on deserts.

      COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    • Kirkus

      April 15, 2023
      Arid ecosystems harbor a variety of interdependent creatures, but these Southwestern habitats face serious pressures. Munro, whose Dive In (2020) invited readers to explore coral reefs, returns to--very--dry land with an enticing tour of several North American deserts: the Sonoran Desert, the Mojave Desert (with additional attention to Death Valley), the Great Basin Desert, the Chihuahuan Desert, and the Painted Desert. An opening map sets the stage. An introduction makes the point that though deserts are dry and often hot, they're not uninhabitable. Twelve scenes, pictured over a 24-hour period, offer readers opportunities to discover inhabitants of each desert with challenging seek-and-find puzzles. Explanatory text runs across the bottom quarter of each spread describing weather, typical plant life, some geological features, and some threats to each habitat. A small box lists the numbers and names of various creatures pictured. Readers will have to look carefully: Some are very small and may be partially concealed! The following pages provide answer keys to the search-and-finds and further information about each of the six habitats. In conclusion, Munro suggests ways readers can help these fragile habitats. Munro's acrylic paintings, outlined in ink, convey the different senses of each place and time effectively through light and color, and the creatures are recognizable though not always to scale. (This book was reviewed digitally.) A solid, geographically specific introduction to desert communities--and how we can protect them. (relevant organizations, glossary) (Informational picture book. 5-9)

      COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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