Byrd Baylor

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1969
  • Latest Book:
    April 1997
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Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • Before You Came

  • Plink, Plink, Plink

  • When Clay Sings

    Pieces of broken pots are scattered over the desert hillsides of the Southwest. The Indians there treat them with respect — Every piece of clay is a piece of someone's life, they say. And the children try to imagine those lives that took place i...

  • Everybody Needs A Rock

    Everybody needs a rock -- at least that's the way this particular rock hound feels about it in presenting her own highly individualistic rules for finding just the right rock for you....

  • Desert is Theirs

    You may think of the desert as a harsh, dry place where no one would ever want to live -- but think again. The Desert People know. so do the animals. Both love the land, and "share the feeling of being brothers in the desert, of being desert creature...

  • Outer Space Stories

  • Hawk, I'm Your Brother

    “A Native American boy captures a hawk in the hope that he can also capture some sense of its ability to fly….Parnall’s sweeping black-and-white panoramas complement this spare, poetic text.” -- School Library Journal A Caldecott Honor BookA...

  • We Walk in Sandy Places

  • The Way to Start a Day

    Beautiful paintings highlight the ways various peoples from around the world welcome the sun and the start of a new day in this Caldecott Honor"winning picture book.Some people say there is a new sun every day, and that it begins its life at dawn a...



  • The Other Way to Listen

    With a lot of practice, a young boy learns from his old teacher how to listen to the sounds and songs of the natural world.When you know “the other way to listen,” you can hear the wild-flower seed bursting open. You hear rocks murmuring and hill...

  • If You Are a Hunter of Fossils

  • Moon Song

  • Guess Who My Favorite Person Is

  • I'm in Charge of Celebrations

    Byrd Baylor's text captures and shares some of the special experiences in the Southwest desert country that have inaugurated her private celebrations: The Time of Falling Stars, in the middle of August, when "every time a streak of light goes shootin...

  • Amigo

  • Yes Is Better than No

  • Your Own Best Secret Place

  • One Small Blue Bead

    A band of men sat huddled in a cave Where coals of fire glowed warm and red. Boy lay curled on a bed of leaves But he sat up when an old man said: "This thought keeps spinning in my head. There must be caves just like our own Somewhere And other axes...

  • Desert Voices

    On the hottest summer afternoons when desert creatures look for shade and stay close to the earth and keep their voices low I sit high on a cactus and fling my loud ringing trill out to the sun... So sings the Cactus Wren, one of the ten desert creat...



  • The Table Where Rich People Sit

    A young girl discovers that her impoverished family is rich in things that matter in life, especially being outdoors and experiencing nature.Mountain Girl knows her family doesn’t have enough money. But as the family sits around their scratched-up ...

  • The Best Town in the World

    A nostalgic view of the best town in the world, where dogs were smarter, chickens laid prettier brown eggs, wildflowers grew taller and thicker, and the people knew how to make the best chocolate cakes and toys in the world....

  • The Way to Make Perfect Mountains

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Byrd Baylor has published 22 books.

Byrd Baylor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Way to Make Perfect Mountains, was published in April 1997.

The first book by Byrd Baylor, Before You Came, was published in October 1969.

No. Byrd Baylor does not write books in series.
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