Dig, Wait, Listen : A Desert Toad's Tale

Dig, Wait, Listen
Author(s): April Pulley Sayre

The desert Southwest
is full of sounds.

Skitter, skitter, scratch.
A scorpion is crawling.
Pop, pop, pop.
kangaroo rat is hopping.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
A rattlesnake is
shaking its tail.

But the spadefoot toad
is quiet in her
underground burrow,
listening for one sound
in particular...
What is that sound?
And what will the
spadefoot toad do
when she hears it?

Review(s):


Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children (NSTA/CBC), ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice, Riverbank Review Children’s Books of Distinction Award

ISBN:  9780688166144