roadrunners

Roadrunners are part of the cuckoo family. Greater roadrunners are the most widespread and well-known roadrunners. Find out more in Roadrunner, one of the titles in the Animals of the Desert series.

Simple text and photographs provide an introduction to roadrunners.

Explores roadrunners, including their features, habitat, food, and more.

Provides information about the lives, habitats, and behaviors of roadrunners through the story of a two-year-old roadrunner that is ready to start a family.

"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces roadrunners to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--Provided by publisher.

A tiny cricket bounces across the scorching desert sand, making leap after leap. Hot on its trail is a bird—not flying but running. It is a roadrunner. The small bird is quick and soon gobbles up the insect. Then it zooms off again, hunting for more prey. Welcome to life in the desert! Young readers will learn all about the desert environment where the roadrunner lives, as well as its physical characteristics, what it eats, and how it survives in its hot, dry home. Colorful photos and diagrams, clear text, age-appropriate activities, and critical-thinking questions will keep young readers turning the pages as they take a closer look at this intriguing desert dweller.

Photographs and text provide information about roadrunner appearance, size, eating habits, and defense strategies.

Presents a children's book for early readers written in both English and Spanish that describes how roadrunners survive in the desert.

Presents a brief introduction to roadrunners, including a physical description, with information on habitat, diet, behavior, life cycle, and other unique characteristics about them.

Humiliated by the name given to him after a rattlesnake bite left him with gigantic, swollen feet, Thunderfoot, a roadrunner, takes the advice of Berland, a wise gopher tortoise, and sets out to prove a name doesn't mean everything.