Deserts.One Year in the Life of the Hottest Biome
By Olga KuvykinaIllustrated by Maria Pozdnyakova
It takes young readers aged 6–10 on an illustrated postcard expedition across the world’s great desert regions: the Sahara and Libyan Desert, the Kalahari and Namib, the Mojave, the Atacama, the Australian Outback, the Arabian Desert, and the Gobi.
Each double-page spread arrives as a “postcard” from its location: stamped, panoramically illustrated, and packed with surprising facts about the animals, plants, and ecosystems that make these apparently empty landscapes some of the most biodiverse places on Earth.
Cross-section illustrations reveal underground root systems and burrow networks. Panoramic spreads bring 50+ species: fennec foxes, Gobi bears, dingoes, sand cats, guanacos, houbara bustards to life in their native landscapes. The book closes with a practical desert-survival guide and a scientific glossary naming every species by its Latin binomial.
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Why this title makes commercial sense
Climate Literacy Through Wonder, Not Alarm. Deserts cover one-third of Earth’s land surface. Rather than presenting them as barren wastelands, this book reveals them as astonishing survival systems — building ecological awareness through wonder. Children can connect landmark ecosystems to climate and biodiversity conversations.
Visual-First Design. The postcard-and-stamp architecture delivers facts in bite-sized boxes fully integrated into the panoramic art. A licensee can adapt the word-count to any market without losing the book’s visual logic. The same award-winning illustration that earned five “A Walk Through History” titles places in Bologna’s Drawn Worlds: 1001 Outstanding Children’s Books is on full display here.
Ecosystems, Adaptation, Biodiversity. A glossary of 40+ species with Latin binomials (Welwitschia mirabilis, Camelus ferus, Puma concolor…) gives teachers a ready-made cross-disciplinary tool.
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