Learn about what desert animals eat and where each belongs in the food chain.

Learn about the world of desert animals.

Uses simple text, full-color photographs, and a food chain diagram on nearly every page to introduce concepts of interdependence of living things.

This bilingual series introduces beginning readers to creatures that make their homes in dry places. Each book explains where a different desert lives, what it eats, and how it adapts to its arid environment. Full-color photographs reinforce the simple text.

Amazing animals of the desert fill the pages of this exciting bilingual series. Redesigned with new features, each book invites readers to discover the world of creatures that live in the desert. Young learners will read about each animal's unique physical characteristics, behavior, and adaptations to their environment. Through fascinating facts and brilliant photographs, these books paint a vibrant picture of the incredible array of animal life in the desert habitat.

Welcome to the desert! Some people think of the desert as a hot, dry, lifeless place. But it is full of life, with diamondback rattlesnakes stalking scorpions and coyotes prowling for rabbits after nightfall. Day and night in the desert, the hunt is on to find food—and to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. All living things are connected to one another in a food chain, from animal to animal, animal to plant, plant to insect, and insect to animal. What path will you take to follow the food chain through the desert? Will you ... Race after a roadrunner chasing her dinner? Fly with a pallid bat during her nightly insect feast? Shadow a pronghorn dining on prickly pear? Follow all three chains and many more on this who-eats-what adventure!

As the sun beats down on the dry land, large birds circle high in the sky. The vultures barely flap their wings as they search for food—dead and dying animals—on the ground below. In Vultures/Buitres, learn how this bird is well suited to desert life. This special English-Spanish bilingual edition enables children to work on their second-language skills as they develop strengths in their primary language.