Akron Public Library

A jackrabbit who wishes to be feared asks his fairy godrabbit for horns and becomes the first jackalope, but there's one condition: he must not tell lies.

When shopping for Culebra's birthday, Conejo convinces his friends Iguana and Tortuga to buy all the wrong presents. Includes a glossary of Spanish words used.

"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to bighorn sheep. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to collared lizards. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

A tall, furry animal with a big hump walks across the burning hot desert sand. It's a camel looking for food to eat. The giant animal hasn't had a drink of water in a week - but it's not thirsty. How can it survive so long without water? The answer is in its hump. Welcome to life in the desert!

A hardworking cowboy who wears his clothes to bed sleeps so soundly he isn't aware how, during each night, he is losing an item of clothing.

Watch the vulture bask in the morning sun, the roadrunner kicks up a cloud of dust, the javelina wallow, and the bobcat give her cub a licking with a rough tongue in Desert Baths. As the sun and moon travel across the sky, learn how twelve different desert animals face the difficulties of staying clean in a dry and parched land. Explore the desert habitat through its animals and their habits of hygiene. Told in lyrical prose, this story is a celebration...

Buster Mesquite and some of his desert animal friends form a musical group that helps break up a band of robbers.

Many of the animals that live in the southwestern desert witness the race between slow but steady Tortoise and the quick, overconfident Jackrabbit.

Lonely in his house beside a road in the desert, Alejandro builds an oasis to attract the many animals around him.