Describes what a rain forest is, shows how plants and animals depend on each other and their environmment to survive, and tells us what to do to preserve the rain forests.

Introduction to the life cycle of an oak tree.

"What are forests? What kinds of animals and plants live in forests? Why are forests important?"--p. [4] of cover.

Explore the forest and see how it might be to touch forest creatures and other things. With the lift a flaps and touch and feel components, children can feel the different textures they might find in the forest.

A blend of music, puppetry and animation in 4 unique earth celebrations.

Open your eyes to a world of discovery. Prowl through the undergrowth and meet the amazing creatures that lurk there. Favorite animals such as tigers, snakes, and chimpanzees rub shoulders with marmosets, katydids, and sloths, and every animal is shown in its correct layer of the forest. Dramatic, atmospheric photography provides a wealth of visual information. Packed with facts and written in an accessible style, Eye Wonders are the perfect educational...

Readers will learn about the three major forest biomes, which are temperate, boreal, and rain forests. The text will focus on the climate, plants, and animals that are found in forests around the world. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

"In this easy reader, kids will have fun seeing photographs and reading about the animals that live in the forest, the plants that grow there, the rivers that flow through them and much more."

The author repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world to stop, listen, and look, exploring each tree's connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants, and demonstrating how the lives of trees and people are deeply interwoven. Several trees, including a balsam fir in Ontario and an Amazonian ceibo, are located in areas that seem mostly natural, but which are affected by industrial...

"From the DNA contained in an apple seed to the great choiring branches far beyond a young boy's reach, Heinrich explores a natural world in scientific and personal terms. Heinrich is a scientist, but his words speak with the power and subtle grace of a poet. He uses this gift and his intimate knowledge of his three hundred acres of Maine forest to expose the forest's rhythms, and in doing so, he illustrates the tenuous but vital link among man, trees,...