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Come along on an adventure through the rain forest. Along the way, you'll meet new friends big and small, see amazing sights, and learn all about the creatures that make their home in the rain forest. Told in simple yet lively text built with sight words and using picture icons to aid reading, National Geographic Pre-readers will enchant kids just beginning their journey with books.
4) The umbrella
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unpaged : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
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English
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Carlos goes into the cloud forest to look for animals, but he manages to miss seeing them even though they have an adventure with his umbrella.
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 20 cm.
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English
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Tropical rain forests today are threatened with extinction. Many of them are being cut down for roads, farms, and other reasons. Learn about the hundreds of known species that may disappear when their habitats are threatened.
8) Sloths
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
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English
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Simple text and color photographs describe the slow-moving, leaf-eating animal known as the sloth.
12) Monkey time
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"Monkey tries to catch the brightly colored--and tasty-looking--minutes on the minute tree in his forest. Introduces basic concepts about time and how time passes and is measured"--
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Bats and big cats. Armies of ants. Squawking parrots, Strangling figs. From the ground up to the tree tops, the tropical rainforest teems with life. Stunning drawings, step-by-step experiments, fun-to-do activities, and fascinating facts abound in this magical exploration of an essential ecosystem, in danger of disappearing forever.
16) Selva tropical
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64 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm.
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Español
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Showcases each layer of the jungle ecosystem, from canopy to floor, with unbelievable factoids and unparalleled detail.
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35 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 31 cm
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English
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"Conservation biologist Martin Jenkins and acclaimed fine artist Vicky White expertly guide readers into the complex ecosystem of Malaysia's Taman Negara. Conversational prose and photorealistic black-and-white artwork--punctuated by four jaw-dropping full-color spreads--evoke the whir of cicadas and the low call of a pheasant. Pages fill with ants and elephants, leopards and hornbills, gibbons and bats, as animals spread and fertilize seeds to help...
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Magic tree house volume 6
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67 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.
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"This is a place that hums with life. all the world's living things depend on healthy forests. They are home to so many amazing plants and animals, all depending on each other. Open this book and dive into the strange interwoven lifecycles of fig trees, the wasps that live inside them, and the beautiful creatures that eat them. Everything is connected" --
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