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K-3
Illustrated by
David Diaz.
Rattlesnake is terrorizing everyone who uses "his" road, so Desert Woman gets the community's animals to collaborate on creating a nemesis for the snake--a bird--comprising their individual attributes (Deer offers two thin branches as nimble legs, etc.). The story is anticlimactic (predictably, Roadrunner trounces Rattlesnake) and its Stone Soup-like message familiar, but the illustrations rendered in a brilliant Southwestern palette are perfect for the tale's milieu.