Where Is the Amazon?
Item #: | 064484 |
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ISBN: | 9780448488264 |
Grades: | 3-7 |
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Human beings have inhabited the banks of the Amazon River since 13,000 BC and yet they make up just a small percentage of the "population" of this geographic wonderland. The Amazon River basin teems with lifeanimal and plant alike. It's a rainforest that is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees, 2.5 million species of insects, and hundreds of amazing creatures and plants that can either cure diseases, or, like the poison dart frog, kill with a single touch. Where Is the Amazon? reveals the amazing scale of a single rainforest that we are still trying to understand today and that, in many ways, supports our existence on this planet.
Joining "Who is/Who was," this new series takes children on an exciting journey to learn the geography and history of renowned natural and man-made locations. Engagingly written with abundant black and white drawings, the stories are sprinkled with topical fun facts. For example, in Where is the White House? "Only one president was married in the White House-Grover Cleveland. President Richard Nixon's daughter, Tricia, held her wedding in the White House Rose Garden in 1971. Delivered on airplane, her wedding dress had its own seat." Some titles include evolutionary content. Each soft cover book includes a colorful, double-sided map that measures approx. 9”x 7.5”. 108 pgs, SC. ~ Deanne