SEA OF SAND

Welcome to the Sea of Sand
Selected by School Library Journal as one of the Best Books of 1996

FROM SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL: A poetic narrative that collaboration of art and words, and gives a comfortable armchair tour of a beautiful, rugged, surprisingly varied place. Regan's artwork, starts and ends with a panoramic, and in between it brings children
in for close-up views that are almost photographic in their realism. Yolen paints
just as inviting a picture as she chooses words that simultaneously describe and establish a rhythm of their own. She speaks of "a huddle of ocelots at noon/ in the shadow of a cave./a slither of green lizards,/the dither of butterflies." The surprising variety of wildlife, weather, and conditions in this sea of sand will give young readers a new look at a place they might have thought dry and barren. This book celebrates the Sonora Desert in the same way Regan and Yolen celebratedthe rain forest in Welcome to the Green House (Putnam 1993). A short note in the back provides more information about the desert and some creatures depicted in the illustrations, but not identified in the text.
- JANE MARINO, SCARSDALE PUBLIC LIBRARY, NY

Published by:
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Written by :
JANE YOLEN
Illustrated by:
LAURA REGAN
$15.95 us - $21.50 can
Ages 4 -8
"I like to use my own photographs as research materials for my paintings whenever possible. For
this book, I spent time
at the Arizona Sonora DesertMuseum, where I
was able to get a closer look at a lot of the plants and animals that I eventually painted."- L.R.

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