Dance in the Desert Author:Madeleine L'Engle From the book jacket: This is a story in which the miraculous and near-miraculous freely happen. At an unstated time, long, long ago when the world we know was young, a father, a mother, and their infant son searched for a caravan to join so that they might safely cross the desert. For a family alone there was much to fear in the desert--feroc... more »ious animals, venemous snakes, marauding bandits--and the protection of a caravan was very necessary. This, then, is the story of the wondrous things that happened "the night in the desert when nobody was afraid and everybody danced." Written by the Newberry Award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time, with beautiful full-color illustrations by Symeon Shimin, who has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.« less