Deserts
by Seymour Simon
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Read in May, 2008
After our trip through the Oregon bit of the Great Basin Desert, Sean wanted to learn more. We checked out Deserts by Seymour Simon from our local library.
The book has beautiful full-color photographs. The book is short, only 40 pages but has enough information for young readers to learn the basic facts about the desert environment, where they are in the world, what makes a desert, what sorts of plants and animals live there and what the climate is like.
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The book has beautiful full-color photographs. The book is short, only 40 pages but has enough information for young readers to learn the basic facts about the desert environment, where they are in the world, what makes a desert, what sorts of plants and animals live there and what the climate is like.
Sean found the information on the...more
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Read in July, 2008
I enjoyed this book and learned some things from it, but it really should have been entitled "American Deserts," because that's what it focused on. I also would have liked captions to the pictures. Aside from those two objections, the book had the beautiful photos typical of Simon's science books, and covered all 4 deserts in the U.S. (I didn't know there were 4!).
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