The Seed and the Giant Saguaro

The Seed and the Giant Saguaro PDF Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Cooper Square Pub
ISBN: 9780873588454
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A packrat, carrying fruit from the giant saguaro, is chased by various desert animals and inadvertently helps spread the cactus's seed. Includes information on saguaros.

The Seed and the Giant Saguaro

The Seed and the Giant Saguaro PDF Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Cooper Square Pub
ISBN: 9780873588454
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A packrat, carrying fruit from the giant saguaro, is chased by various desert animals and inadvertently helps spread the cactus's seed. Includes information on saguaros.

Seed and the Giant Saguaro

Seed and the Giant Saguaro PDF Author: Jennifer Ward
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ISBN: 9780605003521
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Seed and the Giant Saguaro

Seed and the Giant Saguaro PDF Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613885959
Category :
Languages : en
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This Southwestern version of "This Is the House That Jack Built" details the roles played by desert animals in helping a small seed grow into a giant saguaro cactus. Includes a glossary. Full color.

Seed and the Giant Saguaro

Seed and the Giant Saguaro PDF Author: Ward
Publisher: Rising Moon Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780873588652
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Languages : en
Pages :

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It all begins with the tiniest of seeds. Here you will discover how a pack rat, a rattlesnake, a roadrunner, a coyote, and even the clouds above all play a role in helping a small seed grow into a giant saguaro. This wonderful read-aloud brings the wild desert to life and will spark a child's interest in the fascinating creature that live there. As an added bonus, a timeline, glossary, and fun facts about this gentle giant and the amazing desert are included in the back.

Desert Giant (pb)

Desert Giant (pb) PDF Author: Barbara Bash
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781578050857
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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A venerable saguaro cactus stands like a statue in the hot desert landscape, its armlike branches reaching fifty feet into the air. From a distance it appears to be completely still and solitary--but appearances can be deceptive. In fact, this giant tree of the desert is alive with activity. Its spiny trunk and branches are home to a surprising number of animals, and its flowers and fruit feed many desert dwellers. Gila woodpeckers and miniature elf owls make their homes inside the saguaro's trunk. Long-nosed bats and fluttering white doves drink the nectar from its showy white flowers. People also play a role in the saguaro's story: each year the Tohono O'odham Indians gather its sweet fruit in a centuries-old harvest ritual. In this first volume of Sierra Club Books' Tree Tales series, a simple, easy-to-read text and appealing drawings document the life cycle of this amazing cactus tree and the creatures it helps to support. Readers will come away with a better understanding of and a lasting respect for this accomodating giant of the desert.

Saguaro Cactus

Saguaro Cactus PDF Author: Conrad J. Storad
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822530022
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Book Description
Discusses the physical characteristics and life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus

Cactus Hotel

Cactus Hotel PDF Author: Brenda Z. Guiberson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805029604
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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"Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers."--Title page verso.

The 100-year-old Cactus

The 100-year-old Cactus PDF Author: Anita Holmes
Publisher: Four Winds
ISBN: 9780590078795
Category : Cactus
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
Describes the first 100 years of the saguaro cactus as it grows from seed to adult plant in the hot, dry desert of Arizona and provides food and shelter for the desert animals.

The Saguaro Cactus

The Saguaro Cactus PDF Author: David Yetman
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816540047
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Book Description
The saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape—its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human—has become the emblem of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. The largest and tallest cactus in the United States, it is both familiar and an object of fascination and curiosity. This book offers a complete natural history of this enduring and iconic desert plant. Gathering everything from the saguaro’s role in Sonoran Desert ecology to its adaptations to the desert climate and its sacred place in Indigenous culture, this book shares precolonial through current scientific findings. The saguaro is charismatic and readily accessible but also decidedly different from other desert flora. The essays in this book bear witness to our ongoing fascination with the great cactus and the plant’s unusual characteristics, covering the saguaro’s: history of discovery, place in the cactus family, ecology, anatomy and physiology, genetics, and ethnobotany. The Saguaro Cactus offers testimony to the cactus’s prominence as a symbol, the perceptions it inspires, its role in human society, and its importance in desert ecology.

A Saguaro Cactus

A Saguaro Cactus PDF Author: Jen Green
Publisher: New York ; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.
ISBN: 9780778701347
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
Describes the various animals that live in and around the giant Saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert.