Books with title A Day and Night in the Desert

The desert is an amazing place filled with secrets and surprises. Desert Night Desert Day brings the best of the desert out from the shadows with warm and enticing illustrations for kids to enjoy over and over. Popular nature author Anthony D. Fredericks and artist Kenneth J. Spengler team up to bring the desert to life with lively verse and colorful illustrations. Children and adults will have fun looking for the quail hidden in every illustration. The back of the book is packed with excellent infrmation about the fascinating creatures that call the desert home.

The great Sonoran Desert, which covers the hottest part of the U.S. Southwest and northwestern Mexico, teems with a surprising abundance of unusual creatures and plant life. While the desert seems to sleep during the hot daylight hours, many animals are actually up and about. But the desert is most active at night.This entertaining, educational coloring book, filled with realistic illustrations, follows wildlife and plants — from tiny lizards and delicate flowers to coyotes and giant saguaros — through a 24-hour cycle. Lifelike, ready-to-color portraits depict an antelope jack rabbit scared by peccaries, a desert tortoise chewing on a beavertail cactus, a bobcat encountering a family of skunks, a turkey vulture with a six-foot wingspread, and many other plants and animals that have adapted to the harsh environment of the desert.Sure to appeal to colorists of all ages, this fascinating collection of 29 detailed, accurate illustrations will thrill nature lovers as well.

Incredible wildlife illustrations and imaginative use of gatefolds make for an exciting look into the sprawling life of a swamp’s ecosystem, first by day then at night.This beautifully illustrated new title for kids 7-10 explores a swamp and all the daytime and nocturnal activities of the animals that inhabit it. The book features two stunning, panoramic illustrations of intriguing animals that inhabit the swamp, first during the day and then a different group of animals at night. Each day-night section has an introduction explaining the unique characteristics of the swampland and how the various creatures thrive within it. Each species is then featured individually in the pages following the gatefolds. Kids will be entertained and educated as they search the swamps for wildlife.

Cheerup, cheerup! Cheerup, cheerup! A robin's song begins and ends this book, but it's the 24 hours in between that will fascinate readers. Award-winning author/illustrator Caroline Arnold details one full day of animal activity in a deciduous forest habitat, using her cut-paper illustrations, story-like text, and features such as sidebars, fun facts, and a glossary.

Breathtaking wildlife illustrations and imaginative use of gatefolds make for an enchanting look into the sprawling life of a forest’s ecosystem, first by day then at night.This beautifully illustrated new title for kids 7-10 explores the forest and all the daytime and nocturnal activities of the animals that inhabit it. The book features stunning illustrations of wild animals in their forest habitat during the day, followed by a section showing the different set of animals that inhabit the same scene at night.Each day-night section has an introduction explaining the unique characteristics of the forest habitat and how the various creatures thrive within it. Each species is then featured individually in the pages following the gatefolds. Kids will be enriched and entertained for hours as they are pulled into the enchanting world of the wild.

As a Vietnam veteran and former Special Forces sniper descends into the throes of mental illness, he latches onto a lonely pregnant teenager and a group of Pentecostal zealots ? the Children of Light ? who have been waiting over thirty years in the Arizona desert for Armageddon. When the Amtrak Sunset Limited, a passenger train en route to Los Angeles, is derailed in their midst in a deadly act of sabotage, their lives are thrown into turmoil as local and state police, FBI investigators, and a horde of reporters arrive on the scene. As the search for the saboteurs heats up and the authorities question members of the cult, they uncover more questions than answers. And then the girl vanishes. As the sniper struggles to maintain his sanity, a child is about to be born deep in the wilderness.

Award-winning author/illustrator Caroline Arnold invites readers to hunker down in the Amazon from sunrise to sunrise and experience one 24-hour cycle of animal activity in the rain forest habitat, starting and ending with―cricka, cricka!―a noisy toucan call. Her cut-paper illustrations, story-like text, and features such as sidebars, fun facts, and a glossary dazzle and delight.

As a Vietnam veteran and former Special Forces sniper descends into the throes of mental illness, he latches onto a lonely pregnant teenager and a group of Pentecostal zealots – the Children of Light – who have been waiting over thirty years in the Arizona desert for Armageddon. When the Amtrak Sunset Limited, a passenger train en route to Los Angeles, is derailed in their midst in a deadly act of sabotage, their lives are thrown into turmoil as local and state police, FBI investigators, and a horde of reporters arrive on the scene. As the search for the saboteurs heats up and the authorities question members of the cult, they uncover more questions than answers. And then the girl vanishes. As the sniper struggles to maintain his sanity, a child is about to be born deep in the wilderness.