Agave Blooms Just Once by Gisela Jernigan, illustrated by E. Wesley Jernigan

Armadillo Ray by John Beifuss, illustrated by Peggy Turley

Arizona A to Z by Dorothy Hines Weaver, illustrated by Kay Wacker

Best Alphabet Book in the Wild West by Gary and Madeline Bennett, illustrated by Gary Bennett

Cactus Café: A Story of the Sonoran Desert by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Cactus Hotel by Brenda Guiberson, illustrated by Megan Lloyd

Correctamundo! Prickly Pete's Guide to Desert Facts & Cactifracts by David Lazaroff, illustrated by Preston Need

Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro Cactus by Barbara Bash

A Desert Scrapbook by Virginia Wright-Fierson

Desert Trip by Barbara Steiner, illustrated by Ron Himler

Dig, Wait, Listen: A Desert Toad's Tale by April Pulley Sayre, illustrated by Barbara Bash

Don't Call Me Pig: A Javelina Story by Conrad Storad, illustrated by Beth Neely and Dan Rantz

The Goat in the Rug by Geraldine as told to Charles L. Blood and Martin Link, illustrated by Nancy Winslow Parker

Grand Canyon: Exploring a Natural Wonder by Wendell Minor

If I Had a Tail by Karen Clemens Warrick, illustrated by Sherry Neidigh

Kinaaldá: A Navajo Girl Grows Up by Monty Roessel

Life in the Slow Lane: A Desert Tortoise Tale by Conrad Storad, illustrated by Nathaniel P. Jensen New!

Lizards for Lunch: A Roadrunner's Tale by Conrad Storad, illustrated by Beth Neely and Dan Rantz

Lizards on the Wall by Ken and Debby Buchanan, illustrated by Betty Schweitzer-Johnson

Scorpions by Conrad Storad, illustrated by Paula Jansen

The Unbreakable Code by Sara Hoagland Hunter, illustrated by Julia Miner

Watching Desert Wildlife by Jim Arnosky