Alejandro's Gift

LeVar visits a California oasis and talks with a naturalist about the importance of this water source for the Cahuilla, a Native American tribe of the past, as well as for animals. Viewers visit Niagara Falls and find out how water power can provide electricity.

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Alejandro's Gift Feature Book:

Alejandro's Gift

Alejandro gives the "gift" of water to various desert animals.

Author: Richard E. Albert
Illustrator: Sylvia Long
Publisher: Chronicle Books

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Water, Water Everywhere

Water, Water Everywhere

Celebrates the Earth's most precious resource by describing water in natural liquid, gaseous, and solid forms. Also shares how water has shaped Earth, and its importance to life.

Author: Mark J. Rauzon and Cynthia Overbeck Bix
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.

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It Rained on the Desert Today

It Rained on the Desert Today

Animals, adults, and children alike, celebrate the coming of life-giving rain after months of hot, scorching days in the desert.

Author: Ken and Debby Buchanan
Illustrator: Libba Tracy
Publisher: Northland

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The Desert Alphabet Book

The Desert Alphabet Book

An alphabet book which introduces familiar, unfamiliar, and comical desert animals.

Author: Jerry Pallotta
Illustrator: Mark Astrella
Publisher: Charlesbridge

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