What's Up in the Amazon Rainforest
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Publisher Description
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.
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Clarke launches a nonfiction series with an in-depth look at the Amazon rainforest. Faded map backgrounds, faux "taped-in" photographs, and pages marked with colored pencil create the feeling of an explorer's notebook as Clarke walks readers through the history of the Amazon, threats like deforestation, and the animals and humans that populate it; noting that some 500 tribes live in the Amazon (and not all of them communicate with outsiders), Clarke introduces a handful of peoples, including the Yanomami, Matis, and Kayap . The Amazon itself is enormous ("almost as big as the United States"), and Clarke capably covers substantial terrain in this book, too, making it an asset for readers looking to learn about one of the world's most vibrant and important regions or as Clarke puts it, a "crazy, cool, and crucial habitat." Ages 8 12.
