Javelina! Have-uh-WHAT?
 Gene K. Garrison
 (Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
 2002 Xlibris
 ISBN: 1401066615

Spiky-haired animals living in the Sonoran Desert look a lot like wild pigs.

Collared peccary is the formal name for these unusual critters -- Dicotyles tajacu is their botanical name & they look like a cross between a hedgehog & a pig.

Gene Garrison has taken some marvelous photos & accompanied them by simple & entertaining information about these desert denizen & their friends.

Amid the flowers of the American Southwest, we get glimpses of a delightful family of Javelinas -- you say their name like this: Have-uh-leena -- as they hunt & gather near the author's home. In fact, she designed her garden expressly to entice these elusive critters into her camera lens.

Javelina! Have-uh-WHAT? is a lively, lovely learning book -- Gene Garrison includes a Vocabulary & each page has a delightful pink background, setting off pictures & words very well.

All in all, Javelina! Have-uh-WHAT? is a good addition to your family's library, especially for the younger readers. It is also a necessity next time you're travelling around the American Southwest, especially at crepuscular times of day. If you're very still & very quiet you might just get to see & hear them!

Very well done!

More from Gene K. Garrison:
Widowhood
From Thunder to Breakfast
(08/17/03)

Rebecca