What's up in the Amazon rainforest / by Ginjer L. Clarke.
Material type: TextSeries: What's up inPublisher: New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 144 pages : color illustrations, color map 19 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780448481036 (pbk)
- 0448481030 (pbk)
- What is up in the Amazon rainforest
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 577.34 C598 | Available | 33111008116994 | ||||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Where in the world will you find 427 different types of mammals, 1,294 birds, 2,200 fishes, 378 reptiles, 428 amphibians, and about 1 million insects? The Amazon Rainforest, of course! Get lost in the largest rainforest in the world to climb trees that are 500 years old, swim with a pink dolphin, avoid the deadly poison dart frogs, and sleep with a troop of twenty howler monkeys. In What's Up in the Amazon Rainforest , you'll learn all about the plants and animals, as well as the people that live there and the habitat itself.
Introduction -- What Is the Amazon Rainforest? -- The Amazon River -- The Rainforest Floor -- The Understory -- The Canopy -- The Emergent Trees -- Who Are the People of the Amazon Rainforest? -- How Can We Save the Amazon Rainforest? --- Bibliography -- Index -- Credits.
Ages 8-12.
"Where in the world will you find 427 different types of mammals, 1,294 birds, 2,200 fishes, 378 reptiles, 428 amphibians, and about 1 million insects? The Amazon Rainforest, of course! Get lost in the largest rainforest in the world to climb trees that are 500 years old, swim with a pink dolphin, avoid the deadly poison dart frogs, and sleep with a troop of twenty howler monkeys. In What's Up in the Amazon Rainforest, you'll learn all about the plants and animals, as well as the people that live there and the habitat itself."-- Provided by publisher.
What is the Amazon rainforest? -- The Amazon river -- The rainforest floor -- The understory -- The canopy -- The emergent trees -- Who are the people of the Amazon rainforest? -- What do we get from the Amazon rainforest? -- How can we save the Amazon rainforest?
Includes bibliographical references (page 140) and index.