Desert Baths

Watch the vulture bask in the morning sun, theroadrunner kicks up a cloud of dust, the javelinawallow, and the bobcat give her cub a licking with arough tongue in Desert Baths. As the sun and moontravel across the sky, learn how twelve different desertanimals face the difficulties of staying clean in a dryand parched land. Explore the desert habitat throughits animals and their habits of hygiene. Told in lyricalprose, this story is a celebration of the desert lands ofthe American Southwest.