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It is another hot day in the desert. Birds and other animals scurry about looking for food.When they get tired they stop to rest at a giant cactus. It is their hotel in the desert!
Brenda Z. Guiberson's Cactus Hotel is already a favorite in many homes and classrooms, with sales totaling more than 320,000 in hardcover and paperback. The big book format allows Megan Lloyd's detailed illustrations to shine and makes sharing in wonder of the desert life cycle more fun than ever.
A fascinating look at the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus and its
place in the desert ecosystem. --Booklist

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A fascinating look at the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus and its place in the desert ecosystem. -- Booklist <br><br> Guiberson weaves an amazingly large range of facts into this simple story of a fragile ecosystem. -- Publishers Weekly <br>

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Brenda Z. Guiberson has written many books for children, including Spoonbill Swamp, Moon Bear and Disasters. As a child, Brenda never thought she wanted to be a writer--her dreams tended more toward jungle explorer. She graduated from the University of Washington with degrees in English and Fine Art. She started thinking about writing for children when her son went to elementary school, and she volunteered in his class and in the school library. After taking exciting trips that involved a fifty-foot cactus, hungry alligators and sunset-colored spoonbills, she wanted to create books for children that would be like a field trip. Her books are full of well-researched detail, and Brenda sees this research as an adventure--one that allows her to be a jungle explorer at last. She lives in Seattle, Washington. Megan Lloyd read the manuscript for Cactus Hotel and went to the Saguaro National Monument in Arizona herself. I like to see what I am going to illustrate rather than make it up, she says. Ms. Lloyd is the illustrator of many picture books, including Brenda Z. Guiberson's Spoonbill Swamp. She lives in Pennsylvania.

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