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Cactus Hotel

by Brenda Z. Guiberson Publisher: HENRY HOLT

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A desert home shared across generations

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A desert home shared across generations

A giant cactus serves as shelter for a changing community of desert animals. As the cactus grows over a lifespan of about two hundred years, one resident leaves and another takes its place. The animals’ relationship with their home is reciprocal: the cactus offers protection, while its inhabitants eat pests that could damage it. Brenda Z. Guiberson’s picture book brings together plant life, animal habitats, and the interdependence of living things in a compact nature story.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young children curious about desert animals and plants
  • Families and educators seeking an introduction to habitats and how living things depend on one another

Themes

Desert habitatsPlant and animal interdependenceShelter and shared habitatGrowth and change over time

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Book overview

It is another hot day in the desert. Birds and other animals scurry about looking for food. When they get tired they stop to rest at a giant cactus. It is their hotel in the desert!

Many different animals live in the cactus hotel. It protects them; and they protect it, by eating the pests that could harm the cactus.

The cactus grows larger and larger and will live for about two hundred years. When one animal moves out, another moves in. There is never a vacancy in the cactus hotel.

This story--about a desert, a giant cactus, and the animals who live in it--is one that even the youngest child will understand and enjoy.

Parents' Choice Award
IRA-CBC Teachers' Choice
An NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book
An NCTE Notable Trade Book in the Language Arts

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