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Where is the Amazon? / by Sarah Fabiny ; illustrated by Daniel Colón.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Where is (Grosset & Dunlap)Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2016]Description: 108 pages : illustrations, map (1 color foldout) ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780448488264
  • 0448488264
  • 9780399542336
  • 0399542337
Subject(s):
Contents:
Where Is the Amazon? -- The River Changes Course -- First Settlers -- Search for the City of Gold -- More Discoveries -- The People of the Amazon -- Layers of a Rain Forest -- Incredible Creatures -- Protecting the Forest -- A Trip down the Amazon -- Timelines.
Scope and content: "Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is ...? title. Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the 'population' of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life--animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 981.1 F119 Checked out 06/29/2024 33111011083199
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 981.1 F119 Available 33111008443133
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is...? title.

Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the "population" of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life-animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet.

"Without risking life or limb, readers can explore the wonders and beauty of the Amazon in this Where Is ...? title. Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the 'population' of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with life--animal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet"-- Provided by publisher.

Ages 8 to 12.

Includes bibliographical references (page 108).

Where Is the Amazon? -- The River Changes Course -- First Settlers -- Search for the City of Gold -- More Discoveries -- The People of the Amazon -- Layers of a Rain Forest -- Incredible Creatures -- Protecting the Forest -- A Trip down the Amazon -- Timelines.

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