‘Desert Friends: Travels with the Pack’ By Linda Harkey, illus. by Mike Minick Archway Publishing (2022, 36 pp.) Would it surprise you to learn that animals in the wild work together with domesticated animals in times of need, as well as to be chummy? Children’s book author Linda Harkey (“Chatty the Hen Pheasant”) finds a unique angle in sharing stories about hunting dogs who encounter then befriend the very animals they are supposed to track for “the Great One,” their master.
