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"...informative, effective, and poetic introduction to a desert's beauty and complexity." Kirkus Reviews. 2023 Eureka! Nonfiction Honor Book, California Reading Association Award-winning science writer Darcy Pattison presents a superbloom from the desert's point-of-view. When a sudden downpour, a monsoon, falls in the desert, plants and animals explode with growth. Plants sprout, bloom, produce seeds and die within a couple days. Likewise, in a week, animals hatch, grow, mate, lay eggs, and return to hibernation or estivation. Strong lyrical text takes on the persona of the desert as it…mehr

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"...informative, effective, and poetic introduction to a desert's beauty and complexity." Kirkus Reviews. 2023 Eureka! Nonfiction Honor Book, California Reading Association Award-winning science writer Darcy Pattison presents a superbloom from the desert's point-of-view. When a sudden downpour, a monsoon, falls in the desert, plants and animals explode with growth. Plants sprout, bloom, produce seeds and die within a couple days. Likewise, in a week, animals hatch, grow, mate, lay eggs, and return to hibernation or estivation. Strong lyrical text takes on the persona of the desert as it watches seeds it has cradled become flowering plants. "...I'm flooded with redbluegreenyelloworangepurple and buzzing with life- gorgeous, outrageous, frail LIFE!" The natural life cycles of the desert depend on rain. Explore this fascinating environment during one of its most spectacular displays of life.
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La escritora infantil y editora independiente, DARCY PATTISON ha escrito más de setenta libros infantiles galardonados de ficción y de no-ficción. Cinco libros han recibido reseñas estelares de PW, Kirkus o BCCB. Entre los galardones recibidos se encuentran un Honor Irma Black; cinco NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books; cuatro honores ¡Eureka! de no-ficción; dos selecciones del Junior Library Guild; dos menciones en la lista de libros notables de NCTE en el área de Lenguaje, uno en el área de Estudios Sociales, uno en el área de STEM; un premio Arkansiana y un premio al libro de historia de Arkansas, Susannah deBlack. En 2007 recibió el Premio a las Artes del Gobernador de Arkansas para un artista individual por su trabajo en la literatura infantil. Sus libros se han traducido a diez idiomas.