Text and photographs introduce the rain forest biome, including the environment, plants, and animals such as snakes, tree frogs, and apes.

Describes the importance of rain forests, types of plant and animal life that live there, and how rain forests are threatened by deforestation.

Tells about a variety of rain forest plants, how they are used, why they are in danger, and how they are being protected.

Cumulative text presents the animals and plants of the tropical rain forest and their relationship with one another and their environment.

Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the