Rhyming text introduces a pack rat who spends his time finding interesting objects to bring home, where he uses them to decorate, saves them to trade at the swap meet, or simply stores them for future use. Includes facts about pack rats and discussion questions.

"Some of the bits and pieces stored away in my memory I've jotted down to enjoy or think about ... how the Lord's goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life"--Page 16.

Over the past thirty years, late Quaternary environments in the arid interior of western North America have been revealed by a unique source of fossils: well-preserved fragments of plants and animals accumulated locally by packrats and quite often encased, amberlike, in large masses of crystallized urine. These packrat middens are ubiquitous in caves and rock crevices throughout the arid West, where they can lie preserved for tens of thousands of years. More than a thousand of these deposits have been dated and analyzed, and middens have supplanted pollen records as a touchstone for studying vegetation dynamics and climatic change in radiocarbon time (the last 40,000 years). Now, similar deposits made by other mammals like hyraxes are being reported from other parts of the world. This book brings together the findings and views of many of the researchers investigating fossil middens in the United States, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. The contributions serve to open a forum for methodological concerns, update the fossil record of various geographic regions, introduce new applications, and display the vast potential for fossil midden analysis in arid regions worldwide. The findings presented here will serve to foster regional research and to promote general studies devoted to global climate change. Included in the text are more than two hundred charts, photographs, and maps.

Penny Pack Rat waits until the night air cools down the Sonoran Desert before she leaves her cluttered burrow to collect her treasures.

Tells about the life of the desert pack rat.

This is the story of Packrat Bob, a bushy-tailed packrat (Neotoma cinerea), who lives with naturalists Sally Roth and Matt Bartmann in their remote cabin high in the Rocky Mountains. The charming illustrations are by 13-yr-old Olivia Gallagher.

Packy is a wacky Pack Rat who is attracted to all kinds of objects. He collects and trades articles as he travels but doesn't make friends easily. Tommie Moller's rhymed verse is a light-hearted and comical story of how Packy learns the value of friendship when he makes a surprising trade.