Dig, Wait, Listen - A Desert Toad's Tale

Informationen zum Autor April Pulley Sayre is the award-winning creator of numerous books for children, including the acclaimed Raindrops Roll , Best in Snow , and Full of Fall . She has traveled to many places to observe, investigate, and photograph the world. The stunning photographs in Cityscape illuminate basic concepts of art, science, design, engineering, math, construction, and language arts for budding engineers, artists, architects, construction workers, and poets alike! April Pulley Sayre lives in South Bend, Indiana. You can visit her online at www.aprilsayre.com. Jacket photography © 2018 by April Pulley Sayre Barbara Bash is pictured here with the spadefoot toad that lived in her studio while she worked on this book. The artist has written and illustrated a number of award-winning books on natural topics, including Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus. She lives with her husband and son in the Hudson Valley of New York. Klappentext The desert Southwest is full of sounds. Skitter, skitter, scratch. A scorpion is crawling. Pop, pop, pop. kangaroo rat is hopping. Tsk, tsk, tsk. A rattlesnake is shaking its tail. But the spadefoot toad is quiet in her underground burrow, listening for one sound in particular... What is that sound? And what will the spadefoot toad do when she hears it? Zusammenfassung The desert Southwest is full of sounds. Skitter! skitter! scratch. A scorpion is crawling. Pop! pop! pop. kangaroo rat is hopping. Tsk! tsk! tsk. A rattlesnake is shaking its tail. But the spadefoot toad is quiet in her underground burrow! listening for one sound in particular... What is that sound? And what will the spadefoot toad do when she hears it? ...

Product details

• Authors: April Pulley Sayre, April Pulley Sayre, Sayre Anne
• Assisted by: Barbara Bash (Illustration), April Pulley Sayre (Illustration)
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 8
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2001
• EAN: 9780688166144
• ISBN: 978-0-688-16614-4
• No. of pages: 32
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 203 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; JUVENILE FICTION / Legends, Myths, Fables / General, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Activity Books / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: History / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Animals / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Science & Nature / Disasters, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Animals / Baby Animals