Rain Forests and Reefs: A Kid's Eye View of the Tropics

by Thane Maynard and Caitlin Maynard

Book Overview

The Cincinnati Zoo, a renowned educational and wildlife research facility, joins Franklin Watts in a series of books introducing the threatened animal and plant species of the world. Dramatic,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531158063
• ISBN13: 9780531158067
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.1" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 8

Customer Reviews

The best darn book I ever read

I believe that Caitlin Maynard has done a phenomenal job of conveying what it was like to explore a tropical ecosystem for the first time as a junior highschool student, while simultaneoulsy teaching the reader all about the wild creatures and plants of Belize. It's especially amazing, given the fact that she was so young when she wrote it. My favorite part was the photo of the whole group taken just before they embarked on their journey. The kids on the trip must have had lots of fun. Many of them were probably entranced by the multitude of new species they were seeing. Especially the girl on the front cover--I bet she did not even know she was being photographed! I also enjoyed the miraculously clear underwater photos of eels--however did the photographer get those pictures?