Death Valley: A Day in the Desert (A Holiday House Reader, Level 2) - Hardcover

Levinson, Nancy Smiler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082341566X ISBN 13: 9780823415663

Publisher: Holiday House, 2002

Synopsis

Describes the desert habitat of Death Valley--one of the hottest locales on Earth--and the plants and animals that live there, including coyotes, pocket mice, kangaroo rats, various reptiles, and insects.

About this title

About the Author:

Nancy Smiler Levinson is the author of several books for young readers, including history, biography, fiction, easy-to-read, and historical fiction. Her easy readers include "Snowshoe Thompson" and "Clara and the Bookwagon". Visit her website at www.nancysmilerlevinson.com..

Diane Dawson Hearn is a well known illustrator. She is know for illustrating "Dad's Dinosaur Day", "Christmas in the Forest", "Bear's Hiccup", & "George Washington's First Victory".

From School Library Journal:

Gr 1-2-An uninspired "Level 2" reader about desert life that reads like a dry encyclopedia entry. Levinson begins with a tangential, and confusing, reference to polar deserts before presenting shotgun descriptions of the various indigenous flora and fauna that populate California's famously inhospitable desert. Leading questions are answered with a fact or two. An appendix includes silhouette identifications of some of Hearn's cutesy pastoral colored-pencil images. Individual plants and animals are labeled throughout but the type is too small and too often blends in with the pictures. Elsa Posell's Deserts (Children's, 1982; o.p.) is a much better introduction to this topic.-John Sigwald, Unger Memorial Library, Plainview, TX

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About this edition

• Publisher: Holiday House
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 082341566X
• ISBN 13: 9780823415663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Hearn Diane Dawson