ISBN Hoot and Howl across the Desert (Extreme Environments) book 56 pages

Readers are invited to travel across some of world’s driest landscapes and discover the remarkable animals and plants that survive in desert climates, both hot and cold. Along the way, they will encounter over 300 rare and little known plants, animals, reptiles, birds and insects, casting new light on desert environments and revealing the abundance of life underlying their barren image. Through fifteen bright and graphic desert landscapes the book looks in detail at unusual species, their tactics for survival, nocturnal desert life, the desert food chain, lethal creatures and degrees of dryness.

About the Author
Vassiliki Tzomaka is a designer and illustrator with a PhD in Children’s Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art. She collected over 300 cacti and succulent species to create this book, drawing on her BSc in chemistry and MA in environmental studies to recreate the environment of the desert on the page.