While accompanying his father on an expedition up the Amazon River to a jaguar preserve in Brazil, fourteen-year-old Jacob must contend with dangerous animals and fortune hunters.
A collection of original, rain forest-themed poetry accompanied by photographs, and presents a variety of common poetic forms with definitions of poetic devices.
This book describes animals that live in the rain forest, such as atlas moths, poison dart frogs, red-bellied piranhas, green tree pythons, keel-billed toucans, three-toed sloths, and orangutans.
Introduces children to the world's rain forests, describing the rain forests' climates, wildlife, plants, and role in the climate, economy, and medical field.
Describes the location, weather, layers, plants, and animals of the rain forest, explains how rain forest resources help people, and discusses the importance of preserving the rain forest ecosystem.