Deserts (Señorita Gordita/Deserts)

Fiction: In this Tex-Mex retelling of The Little Gingerbread Man, Senorita Gordita--a little corn cake--escapes from the frying pan and leads a merry chase. She runs through the desert boasting, "You'll never catch me!" while fleeing from a spider, a rattler, and other hungry creatures "with a flip, and a skip, and a zip-zoom-zip." Nonfiction: Did you know that a desert is a large area of very dry land? Deserts are almost always very hot or very cold. Learn more in Deserts, a title in the Natural Habitats and Ecosystems series.