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Author:

Greenaway, Theresa, 1947-

Title:

Jungle / written by Theresa Greenaway ; photographed by Geoff Dann.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Publisher:

DK Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

72 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Jungles--Juvenile literature.
Jungle ecology--Juvenile literature.
Jungle plants--Juvenile literature.
Jungle animals--Juvenile literature.
Rain forests--Juvenile literature.
Rain forest ecology--Juvenile literature.
Ecology--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Dann, Geoff, illustrator.

Notes:

Includes a glossary, list of useful websites, and an index.

Contents:

What is a rainforest? -- Types of rain forest -- At the top -- Forest canopy -- The forest floor -- In the water -- Epiphytes -- Climbers -- Central American jungles -- Sweet success -- Seed dispersal -- Dusk to dawn -- South American jungles -- Beside the water -- Hidden dangers -- Nature's architects -- House and home -- African jungles -- Medicines -- Forest primates -- Hunters and killers -- Tropical Asia -- Disguise and warning -- Tricks and traps -- Flying high -- Australasian rain forests -- Jungle produce -- Explorers -- Under threat -- Did you know? -- Endangered jungle animals -- Find out more -- Glossary -- Index.

Summary:

"Be an eye witness to all the action of the rainforest - watch gibbons swing through the trees, multicolored macaws squawk up in the open canopy, and insects scurry down below" -- Cover verso.

Series:

DK eyewitness books

ISBN:

0756696933
9780756696931

LCCN:

2009419057

Locations:

BRPD251 -- Adel Public Library (Adel)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

FJPC224 -- Elkader Public Library (Elkader)

NRPA983 -- Kensett Public Library (Kensett)

LASX353 -- CAL Community School District Library (Latimer)

8USX522 -- Lone Tree Community School (Lone Tree)

LEPI975 -- Woodbury County Library (Moville)

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)

VCPD034 -- Robey Memorial Library-Waukon (Waukon)