Southwest Books of the Year 2014: Ann Dickinson’s Picks For KidsLike this list

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• My Pet Rattlesnake

  Hayes, Joe

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  Well-known storyteller Joe Hayes gives us another totally true tall tale from his own childhood in the Arizona desert. One day young Joe comes across a rattlesnake stuck under a rock. He takes a stick and helps pry it out, and the grateful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Park Scientists

  Gila Monsters, Geysers, and Grizzly Bears in America's Own Backyard

  Carson, Mary Kay

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  Mary Kay Carson and Tom Uhlman offer a fascinating look at three national parks, including Saguaro National Park in southwest Arizona. In chapter three, “Tracking Monsters” explains how gila monsters are tracked by scientists who use radio…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• There Once Was a Cowpoke Who Swallowed An Ant

  Ketteman, Helen,

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  “Yippie-ti-yay! My stomach’s on fire!” begins this cowboy spin on the old childhood favorite, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. This cowpoke swallows an ant, a spider all “…leggy and hairy, that was big as a bat and horribly scary,"…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Old Band

  Wissinger, Tamera Will

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  Remember the children’s song that went, ‘This Old Man, he played one, he played knick-knack on my thumb…’? Here, Tamera Will Wissinger offers a Southwestern version, performed by cowboys and one cowgirl who use a washtub, a bell, a stick,…Read moreRead more of this annotation