The Amazon rainforest and the challenges we face to save it are powerfully presented in The Great Kapok Tree in such a way that any readers of any age can understand what is at stake here. The Great Kapok Tree : A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry How about you? Have you visited a rainforest? What are your favorite rainforest books? Please share! Thank you! If you avoid buying processed foods that use palm oil, you help protect Orangutans. Palm oil is a substitute for butter used in candies, pastries, and other processed foods. Margarita Engle in Orangutaka tells us that Orangutans are critically endangered because their forests are being logged to plant oil palms. Is it going to be too late soon? Is there anything we can do to prevent this catastrophe? In reading these children’s rainforest books, it’s a relief to find that there are simple choices you and I can make every single day to help save the rainforests! Don’t you want to see one before it’s too late?” Her brother Jack persuades her to take a trip to the Amazon by saying, “… the rain forests are being cut down. Like Annie in The Magic Tree House, I don’t relish the bugs. I’ve traveled to the island of Kauai in Hawaii and Costa Rica, but I’ve never been to the rainforest areas of those regions. Inside: Discover these Amazon Rainforest books for kids! From nonfiction to picture books, learn about this amazing habitat important to the planet.
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