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Selected for the 2025 Bologna Ragazzi Award''s Amazing Bookshelf: Sustainability Category

In spectacular and astonishing collage detail, Jeannie Baker captures the deep beauty, mystery, and hidden vitality of the desert landscape and why it needs our protection.

Chico's grandpa has taken him on holiday where he grew up as a child, out in the desert. Chico has no interest in exploring the land the desert jungle frightens him, and he'd much rather play on his his tablet. Grandpa decides that it is time to show Chico the secrets and the wonders that the desert has to offer so that he will not fear it but, instead, welcome it, embrace it and help protect it. Grandpa shows Chico paths through the cactus and the scrub, teaches Chico the plants'' names ocotillo, cholla, cirios, pin cushion, fishhook and, soon, Chico begins to understand the wonders of the wild. He learns the value of watching, waiting and listening for all the life that hums within his desert home.

Desert Jungle

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      Publisher Walker Books
      Imprint Walker Books Ltd
      Published 6 May 2025
      ISBN-13 9781529523744
      978-1529523744
      ISBN-10 1529523745
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      Children & Teen Non-Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Selected for the 2025 Bologna Ragazzi Award''s Amazing Bookshelf: Sustainability Category

      In spectacular and astonishing collage detail, Jeannie Baker captures the deep beauty, mystery, and hidden vitality of the desert landscape and why it needs our protection.

      Chico's grandpa has taken him on holiday where he grew up as a child, out in the desert. Chico has no interest in exploring the land the desert jungle frightens him, and he'd much rather play on his his tablet. Grandpa decides that it is time to show Chico the secrets and the wonders that the desert has to offer so that he will not fear it but, instead, welcome it, embrace it and help protect it. Grandpa shows Chico paths through the cactus and the scrub, teaches Chico the plants'' names ocotillo, cholla, cirios, pin cushion, fishhook and, soon, Chico begins to understand the wonders of the wild. He learns the value of watching, waiting and listening for all the life that hums within his desert home.

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