Roxie Munro’s Desert Days, Desert Nights is such a fun picture book to use when exploring all of the different creatures in the desert with a child. My family’s exploration began when my daughter watched an episode of her favorite show, The Magic School Bus, and saw that there were many different animals that inhabited the desert. She promptly wanted to know what other animals there were who occupied the desert, of course, so we went to the library to find out. (Okay, we went online, too—but we also used a couple of books!)