One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest

George, Jean Craighead

ISBN 10: 0064420167 / ISBN 13: 9780064420167

Published by HarperCollins, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0064420167
• ISBN 13: 9780064420167
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Allen, Gary
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

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)

About the Authors

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.