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I wouldn‘t use this in my classroom since I couldn‘t finish reading it myself

I had a hard time focusing on this book. Didn‘t keep my interest

Published in 1901, The Desert is one of the first books that wrote about, and espoused the beauties of, (you called it) the desert. Traveling through the American Southwest, and specifically the Mojave, (an experience that probably augmented his post as art advisor to industrialist Andrew Carnegie), Van Dyke points out the vivid and stark beauty of his surroundings, or what he calls “the sublimity of the waste.”

This is P. This book is great for IR. This book won Shipping Stone Honor Skipping Stones Book Award in Nature and Ecology. This book is about a girl showing gratitude for the desert. The book has the words in English and Spanish. https://www.readingrockets.org/article/independent-reading The article list the importance of independent reading and suggests.

Drove through Northeast Oregon desert country and stopped at the Grande Ronde river while finishing this book in the passenger seat. Love the premise of a woman wilderness activist having a conversation with Ed Abbey at his grave. Some of his writing so inspired me in my 20s but he was sexist among other faults. #NFNov @Clwojick @rsteve388

Remember, animals were here first so they know better than people how to live. Their wisdom is older. They‘re more at ease in a desert place, the Indians say.