BOOK LIST
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WILDLIFE
- Red Racer
- Gopher Snake
- Glossy Snake
- Common Kingsnake
- Mojave Rattlesnake
- Speckled Rattlesnake
- Panamint Rattlesnake
- Desert Sindwinder
- Diamondback Rattlesnake
- Great Basin Rattlesnake
- Gila Monster
- Chuckwalla
- Leopard Lizard
- Collard Lizard
- Spiny Lizard
- Desert Iguana
- Desert Whiptail
ANIMAL MOTION AND BODY COVERINGS
- Vocabulary
- Book List
- Web Resources
Non-Fiction
Casebier, Dennis. Mojave Road Guide. Essex, California: Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Company, 1986.
Cornett, James. Wildlife of the North American Deserts. Palm Springs, California: Nature Trails Press, 1987.
Darlington, David. The Mojave: A Portrait of the Definitive American Desert. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
Jaeger, Edmund. Desert Wild Flowers. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1941.
Jaeger, Edmund. The North American Deserts. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1957.
MacMahon, James. Deserts: National Audobon Society Nature Guides. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Olin, George. Mammals of the Southwest Deserts. Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 1982.
Rae, Cheri & McKinney, John. Mojave National Preserve: A Visitor's Guide. Santa Barbara: Olympus Press, 1999.
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.
Schoenherr, Allan. A Natural History of California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Stebbins, Robert. Western Reptiles and Amphibians: Peterson Field Guide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985.
Stewart, Jon Mark. Mojave Desert Wildflowers. 1998.
Van Dyke, John. The Desert. Peregrine Smith Books, 1901.
Childrens Books
Arnold, Caroline. A Walk in the Desert. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Press, 1990.
Bix, Cynthia Overbeck. Cactus. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 1982.
Chinery, Michael. Desert Animals. New York: Random House, 1992.
Curtis, Neil. Discovering Snakes and Lizards. New York:Bookwright Press, 1990.
Darling, Kathy. Desert Babies. Darling, NY: Walker & Co., 1997.
George, Michael. Deserts. Mankato, Minnesota: Creative Education, 1992.
Gise, Joanne. A Picture Book of Desert Animals. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1991.
Jablonsky, Alice. 101 Questions About Desert Life. Tucson, AZ: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, c1994.
Landau, Elaine. Desert Mammals. New York: Children’s Press, 1996.
Lesser, Carolyn. Storm on the Desert. San Diego: Larcourt Brace, 1997.
Llamas, Andreu. Plants of the Desert. New York: Chelsea House, 1996.
Rinard, Judith E. Wonders of the Desert World. [Washington, D.C.]: National Geographic Society, c1976.
Siebert, Diane. Mojave. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1988.
Yolen, Jane. Welcome to the Sea of Sand. New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1996.