Byrd Baylor

When Mountain Girl states that the family is poor, her parents describe to her the richness in the natural things around them, such as the desert hills and blooming cactus, which makes Mountain Girl realize that her family is more wealthy than anyone in the world. Reprint.

The Table Where Rich People Sit

After hoping and trying, the narrator is finally able to hear the hills singing.

The Other Way to Listen

Describes the qualities to consider in selecting the perfect rock for play and pleasure.

Everybody needs a rock

Simple text and illustrations describe the characteristics of the desert and its plant, animal, and human life.

The Desert Is Theirs

Peter Parnall

Considers the pleasures to be found in one's very own private place, whether it be a hollow in a tree, a sandy gully, or a secret sand dune.

Your Own Best Secret Place

Focuses on the problems and experiences of a small group of Papago Indians who have left the reservation to live in a ghetto in Tucson, Arizona.

Yes is Better Than No

Byrd Baylor's text captures and shares some of the special experiences in the Southwest desert country that have inaugurated her private celebrations: The Time of Falling Stars, in the middle of August, when "every time a streak of light goes shooting through the darkness, I feel my heart shoot out of me"; Rainbow Celebration Day, marking the time she and a jackrabbit stood together watching a triple-rainbow over a canyon; and the real New Year's Day (January first is "just another winter day"), the day spring begins. "I celebrate with horned toads and ravens and lizards and quail...And, Friend, it's not a bad party."

I'm in Charge of Celebrations

with audio recording

“A Native American boy captures a hawk in the hope that he can also capture some sense of its ability to fly….Parnall’s sweeping black-and-white panoramas complement this spare, poetic text.” —School Library Journal A Caldecott Honor Book An ALA Notable Book

Hawk, I'm Your Brother

The author creates some special holidays to celebrate the natural phenomena that can be experienced in the deserts of the American Southwest

Everybody needs a rock -- at least that's the way this particular rock hound feels about it in presenting her own highly individualistic rules for finding just the right rock for you.

Everybody Needs a Rock

Mountain Girl knows her family doesn¿t have enough money, but as the family sits around their scratched-up kitchen table and discusses the subject, her parents say they¿re rich in this poetic title. Includes colorful illustrations and author and illustrator profiles.

Byrd Baylor

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