In the desert, children build an imaginary town called Roxaboxen, on a rocky hill amidst the cactus and ocotillo, with houses outlined with bits of desert glass and two ice cream parlors. Wonderfully illustrated, this is a family favorite! (Picture book)

A saguaro cactus seed sprouts under a paloverde tree. After fifty years, the cactus blooms and produces fruit, which a woodpecker comes to eat. The woodpecker makes a nest inside the cactus, and soon other birds and animals come to live in holes in the cactus. Super illustrations. (Picture book)

Imagine living in a Hopi village – what clothes would you wear, where would you find water, how could corn grow in the desert, who were the kachina, did children have to work? Answers to all these questions and more, colorfully illustrated. (Chapter book)

Navajo legend of the gift of horses to the Diné. To make life easier for all people, Turquoise Boy uses white shells, turquoise, yellow abalone, and jet stones to gather pollen from the Sun Bearer’s horses. When the Navajo and holy ones sing for the horses, they come with the rays of the sun. (Picture book)

Handbook to the Grand Canyon - how the canyon was formed, who were the first canyon people, explorers, trappers and prospectors, Teddy Roosevelt and preservation, how to identify plants, animals, fossils and rocks you’ll see in the Grand Canyon. Good for older kids. (Chapter book)

Poems about each creature of the desert – jackrabbit, pack rat, rattlesnake, cactus wren, desert tortoise, buzzard, toad, lizard and coyote. “Far down in the earth, quiet as a stone, I wait for rain.” (Picture book)

Ride down the Colorado River with John Wesley Powell, the intrepid one-armed explorer, as he enters the Great Unknown (Grand Canyon), battling a raging river and near starvation, with no idea of what lay ahead. Super photographs, fast-action illustrations and first-hand accounts. (Illustrated chapter book)

Activity book of mazes – trails through the Grand Canyon, puzzling pottery, climb the ladders in a pueblo, hop through the desert, find the treasure in a gold mine, help the big horn sheep at Hoover Dam, and more. (Activity book)

Arizona from A to Z in quick rhymes and fun facts – from astronomy capital of the world to bola ties, copper, desert survival, early people, Lake Powell, Meteor Crater to Zanjero. (Picture book)

Also, count your way through Arizona: Desert Digits