Picture Books

Picture Books for Arizona Nature Study ::

• A Desert Scrapbook by Virginia Wright-Frierson

• Art & Max by David Wiesner

• A Visitor's Guide to 20 Plants on the Desert Discovery Trail by Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix

• America's Deserts by Marianne Wallace

• Agave Blooms Just Once by Gisela Jernigan and E. Wesley Jernigan

• Cactus Desert: One Small Square by Donald Silver

• Cactus Hotel by Brenda Guiberson (also, look for Hotel Saguaro at the Great Arizona Puppet Theater!)

• C is for Coyote by Andrea Helman

• Creatures of the Desert World by National Geographic

• Desert Giant by Barbara Bash

• The Desert Is Theirs by Byrd Baylor

• Desert Night, Desert Day by Anthony D. Fredericks and Kenneth J. Spengler

• Desert Seasons by Jan Mike

• Deserts by Gail Gibbons (about all deserts)

• Everybody Loves a Rock by Byrd Baylor

• G is for Grand Canyon by Barbara Gowan

• Grand Canyon: Exploring a Natural Wonder by Wendell Minor

• Hip, Hip, Hooray, its Monsoon Day by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford and Richard Johnsen

• I'm In Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor

• In the Canyon by Liz Garton Scanlon

• Josephina Javelina by Susan Lowell

• Life in the Slow Lane by Conrad J. Storad

• Little Burro by Jim Arnosky

• One Day in the Desert by Jean Craighead George (easy chapter book)

• One Green Mesquite Tree by Gisela Jernigan and E. Wesley Jernigan

• Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran and Barbara Cooney

• The Tortoise and the Jackrabbit by Susan Lowell (based on Aesop's fable; look for this show at the Great Arizona Puppet Theater!)

• The Three Little Javelinas by Susan Lowell (variation on "The Three Little Pigs")

• There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea by Jennifer Ward

• Way Out in the Desert by T. J. Marsh and Jennifer Ward (variation on the song "Over in the Meadow")

• Who Pooped in the Sonoran Desert by Gary Robson