Cactus Hotel

(Board book)

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Welcome back to the Cactus Hotel. Many different animals live in the Cactus Hotel. It protects them, and they protect it by eating the pests that could harm the cactus. The cactus grows larger and larger and will live for about two hundred years. When one animal moves out, another moves in. There is never a vacancy in the Cactus Hotel. This story-about a desert, a giant cactus, and the animals who live in it-is one that even the youngest child will understand and enjoy. Simplified text and new illustrations will allow a new generation of little ones to become immersed in this nonfiction board book about desert wildlife.

Reviews

"A fascinating look at the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus and its place in the desert ecosystem." --Booklist

"Guiberson weaves an amazingly large range of facts into this simple story of a fragile ecosystem." --Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Brenda Z. Guiberson has written many books for children, including Cactus Hotel, Spoonbill Swamp, Moon Bear, and Disasters. 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 she sees this research as an adventure-one that allows her to be a jungle explorer at last. 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. Lloyd is the illustrator of many picture books.