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DIG WAIT LISTEN. A DESERT TOAD’S TALE BY APRIL PULLEY SAYER ILLUSTRATIONS BY BARBARA BASH. Deep in the desert, under the s and, the spadefoot toad waits. She waits…for the sound of rain. SKITTER, SKITTER, SCRATCH. She hears soft sounds. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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DIG WAIT LISTEN
A DESERT TOAD’S TALEBY APRIL PULLEY SAYER
ILLUSTRATIONS BY BARBARA BASH
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Deep in the desert, under the sand, the spadefoot toad waits.
She waits…for the sound of rain.
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SKITTER, SKITTER, SCRATCH.She hears soft sounds.Is this the rain at last?
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No. It’s the scorpion overhead, crawlingslowly past. SKITTER, SCRATCH!
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THUNK, THUNK, THUNK.CLINK, CLUNK, CLINK, CLUNK.
Sounds shake the soil. But it’s only a herd of peccaries.
Their hooves hammer the ground.
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POP, POP, POP.What’s that sound now?Is this the rain at last?
No, it’s a rat, hopping in lengthy leaps like a tiny kangaroo.
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Will the rain ever come?The desert’s so hot, so dry!
And the toad’s been waiting so many months
in her basement burrow home.
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TAP, TAP, TAP!Could this be it?
No, it’s a gila woodpeckerTapping on a tall green cactus.
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The toad feels the ground begin to shake.Then a CRUNCH, CRUNCH, CRUNCH
that’s loud.Is this the rain?
No. It’s a park ranger’s bootswalking on the path.
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What about thatTSK, TSK, TSK?
Is this the rain at last?No. It’s the rattle of a rattlesnake,
giving warning: STAY AWAY.
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Surely that rumbling…That rumble, rumbling…Surely that’s the rain…?
Not yet.It’s the thunder of a distant storm.
But perhaps the rain is near.
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PLIP, PLOP, PLIP, PLOP.PLIP, PLOP, PLOP!
Is this the rain at last?PLOP THUNK. PLOP THUNK.
PLOP THUNK GUSSSSSHHHHHHH!It is the rain!
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The toad hears it. She digs.
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PLOP THUNK.PLOP THUNK.
PLOP THUNK GUSSSSSHHHHHHH!Heavy rain pounds the desert floor.
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Push, push, and the toad pops right out,into the open air.
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BLEAT, BLEAT, BLEAT!The toad hears loud bleats.Is that the rain sound too?
No. It’s male spadefoot toads,calling: Here, come here!
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PLOP THUNK. PLOP THUNK.POLP THUNK GUSSSSSHHHHHHH!
The toad hops in a puddle.She lays her eggs, like beads of glass.
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PLOP THUNK, PLOP THUNK, PLOP THUNKGUSSSSSHHHHHHH!
Two days later, the eggs hatch. Wiggling and wiggling in their puddle home,
the tadpoles are here at last!
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They eat.They grow.
Legs start to show.But their puddle is drying up!
Will any make it?
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YES!With new legs formed, young toads crawl
from their puddle home.They rest, then
LEAPinto the desert beyond.
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THUMP, THUMP, THUMP.Hundreds of tiny toads jump.
The rain has made the desert green.
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Yet it won’t be long till the desert’s dry, and toads dig down deep with their spadefoot
feet, to wait for that sound…that marvelous sound, the sound of the desert rain.
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PLOP THUNK, PLOP THUNK,PLOP THUNK GUSSSSSHHHHHHH!
PLOP THUNK, PLOP THUNK,PLOP THUNK GUSSSSSHHHHHHH!
PLOP THUNK, PLOP THUNK,PLOP THUNK GUSSSSSHHHHHHH!
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