Desert Trip
Book Review:
This book inspired me to go out and go hiking in the native Tucson
desert where I currently live and go to school. The idea that there
is so much to see and learn from this wild and beautiful desert did
not occur to me until I read this book for the first time. This book
starts off with a mother and daughter going out into a canyon desert
where they both put on backpacks containing what they will need for
the trip. They both take the time to explore the different desert plants
and their uses to people. There is truthful and useful information on
what to do when you are in an empty streambed when you are hiking. These
two people have courtesy for other hikers and purify water to drink
from a puddle, a reality to people who live in the desert. This book
also talks about the land formations and breaks the stereotype that
you always have to have a tent when you camp out.
Overall the illustrations are done in what I would call soft impressionist
watercolor. The colors accurately portray the desert and bring to life
the people in the desert. The mother and daughter bring their backpacking
trip to life for the reader. If I have a child one day, I would like
to take my child out to backpack and read him or her this book.
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