Book Descriptions
for Desert Voices by Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Nine desert creatures (Pack Rat, Tortoise, Coyote, etc.) speak for themselves in poems which convey their natural behavior. Drawings and paintings expand the ideas with the colors reminiscent of U.S. Southwest desert areas. A final poem features a desert person. (4-13 years)
CCBC Choices 1981 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1981. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
On the hottest
summer afternoons
when desert creatures
look for shade
and stay close to the earth
and keep their voices low
I sit high on a cactus
and fling
my loud ringing trill
out to the sun...
So sings the Cactus Wren, one of the ten desert creatures that speaks for itself in the evocative and lyrical verses of Desert Voices. In both text and illustration, Desert Voices conveys a message of spirit and courage from the shy and quiet creatures of the beautiful desert land.
summer afternoons
when desert creatures
look for shade
and stay close to the earth
and keep their voices low
I sit high on a cactus
and fling
my loud ringing trill
out to the sun...
So sings the Cactus Wren, one of the ten desert creatures that speaks for itself in the evocative and lyrical verses of Desert Voices. In both text and illustration, Desert Voices conveys a message of spirit and courage from the shy and quiet creatures of the beautiful desert land.
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