This book puts the Amazon rain forest, its people, plants and animals into perspective allowing children to make comparisons between this and the rainforests in the north-west coast of America to the tip of Australia and South-East Asia. Each continent is introduced with a large introductory map and subsequent feature pages highlight areas children will find particularly interesting.

 

This book features in the following series: The Wayland Atlas Of, Wayland Thematic Atlases .

This book is aimed at the following children: primary school, secondary school .

There are 96 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 1999 by Hachette Children's Group .

Anna Lewington is an experienced writer specializing in the indigenous people of South America. She has been visiting rain forests for many years to find out about the plants, animals, and people that live in them. She has written several books for children about South American rain forests. Anna lives in England with her husband, the writer and photographer Edward Parker, and their two children.