Southwest Children's Literature

Sun Logo


Correctamundo! Prickly Pete's Guide to Desert Facts & Cactifracts

Book Review:

Correctamundo! Prickly Pete's Guide to Desert Facts & Cactifracts by David Lazaroff is a fun and exciting book. It discusses many facts about the desert along with many misconceptions. The author loves to get the reader involved. In the classroom, it can be used to invite the students interact with the book's reader - thereby increasing listeners' connections with the story. The book goes through many ideas that people have about the desert and then has the reader guess if it is a "fact" or a "cactifract" (false). The answers are found on the next page making the listeners anxious for the reader to turn to the next page. Lazaroff includes many facts about the desert as well as making learning fun and interesting for the readers.

The illustrations in this book are very colorful. Preston Neel did a good job illustrating the illusion the author wants the reader to imagine. The reader follows a mouse as it goes through the desert and while figuring out all the fact or fiction of the information along with the reader. The illustrations still leave room for imagination but they do an amazing job animating the content of the story.

to mainpage

About the Book | Book Review | Children's Voices | About the Reviewer