Review by Booklist Review
Gr. 4-6, younger for reading aloud. This fully illustrated book introduces the tropical rain forest, paying particular attention to the animals living there. Excellent photographs provide close-up views of the creatures, most from Central and South America and the rest from Southeast Asia and Africa. Written in the second person, the brief text carries readers through different times of day, observing the habits of particular animals. Meanwhile, the photos steal the show: a brilliantly colored tree frog clings to a leaf, a grasshopper sits on a leaf, camouflaged to near-invisibility, and a viper seizes and eats a lizard. Though too generalized for research, this still provides vivid glimpses of the rain forest and its inhabitants. (Reviewed November 1, 1997)0792270185Carolyn Phelan
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Review by Horn Book Review
Told in the second person, this somewhat shallow overview of the plant and animal life in tropical rainforests takes readers through a day's activities, including human scientific and commercial use. Though many of the color photographs are of high quality, the photos are either reduced or enlarged in service of the design rather than to enhance the brief, at times forced, text. From HORN BOOK 1997, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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