Out on the Prairie

Mixed media art transports readers to the rolling grasslands of Badlands National Park. Learn about the animals that inhabit this semiarid environment where baby critters and their mothers wallow, run, call, bark, hop, scurry, nod, slither, howl, and jump all day long and all through the night.

Count animals from one to ten in the rhyming text modeled after the traditional song "Over in the Meadow" by Olive A. Wadsworth. A guide to prairie flora and fauna is included.Donna Bateman is the author of DEEP IN THE SWAMP and OUT ON THE PRAIRIE. She lives in Bridgeton, Missouri.Out on the prairie where the snakeroot greets the sun,
Lived a shaggy mother bison and her little calf One.
“Wallow!” said the mother. “I wallow,” said the One.
So they wallowed in the dust where the snakeroot greets the sun.