One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest

Informationen zum Autor Jean Craighead George  wrote over one hundred books for children and young adults. Her novel Julie of the Wolves won the Newbery Medal in 1973, and she received a 1960 Newbery Honor for My Side of the Mountain . Born into a family of famous naturalists, Jean spent her entire career writing books that celebrated the natural world. "I began drawing before I could talk," says Gary Allen. "My family always knew I would become an artist, because I constantly drew pictures on the wall as high as I could reach." Gary Allen wen on to study art at the State University of New York College at New Paltz and is now a designer at The Culinary Institute of America In Hyde Park, New York. He lives in High Falls, New York, with his wife and stepson. Klappentext Today is doomsday for a young Venezuelan Indian boy's beloved rain forest and its animal life?unless he and a visiting naturalist can save it. "George makes drama large and small out of the minute-by-minute events in an ecosystem . . . gripping ecological theater." ?C. "An example of nonfiction writing at its best." ?SLJ. Notable 1990 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1990 (NSTA/CBC) Zusammenfassung Today is doomsday for a young Venezuelan Indian boy's beloved rain forest and its animal life—unless he and a visiting naturalist can save it. "George makes drama large and small out of the minute-by-minute events in an ecosystem . . . gripping ecological theater." —C. "An example of nonfiction writing at its best." —SLJ. Notable 1990 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1990 (NSTA/CBC)

Product details

• Authors: Jean Craighead George, Jean Craighead/ Allen George
• Assisted by: Gary Allen (Illustration)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 6 to 10
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.1995
• EAN: 9780064420167
• ISBN: 978-0-06-442016-7
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 194 mm x 4 mm
• Series: Trophy Chapter Books (Paperbac
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; JUVENILE NONFICTION: Animals / Jungle Animals, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Science & Nature / Trees & Forests, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Animals / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Science & Nature / Zoology, JUVENILE NONFICTION: Places / Caribbean & Latin America