Gila Monsters Meet you at the Airport (ISBN 0-689-71383-5) is a 1980 children's book by Marjorie Sharmat, illustrated by Byron Barton.
A young boy from New York City must confront apprehensions about his new life as his parents move West. He soon finds his fears that the region is populated by baseball-hating buffalo chasers are unfounded, and that he can indeed find room to sit among the cactuses.