(4) K-3 Bumba Books: Rain Forest Animals series. Examining one animal per volume, this early science series offers quick, overly broad surveys of rainforest animals. Colorful layouts and close-up photographs enhance simple descriptions of each creature's appearance, behavior, life cycle, and habitat. Critical thinking questions scattered throughout provide the option for a more interactive reading experience. A basic anatomy chart is appended. Also available in Spanish. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Bumba Books: Rain Forest Animals titles: It's a Chimpanzee!, It's a Jaguar!, and It's a Vampire Bat!

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(4) K-3 Bumba Books: Rain Forest Animals series. Examining one animal per volume, this early science series offers quick, overly broad surveys of rainforest animals. Colorful layouts and close-up photographs enhance simple descriptions of each creature's appearance, behavior, life cycle, and habitat. Critical thinking questions scattered throughout provide the option for a more interactive reading experience. A basic anatomy chart is appended. Also available in Spanish. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Bumba Books: Rain Forest Animals titles: It's a Boa Constrictor!, It's a Chameleon!, and It's a Red-Eyed Tree Frog!

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(4) K-3 Bumba Books: Rain Forest Animals series. Examining one animal per volume, this early science series offers quick, overly broad surveys of rainforest animals. Colorful layouts and close-up photographs enhance simple descriptions of each creature's appearance, behavior, life cycle, and habitat. Critical thinking questions scattered throughout provide the option for a more interactive reading experience. A basic anatomy chart is appended. Also available in Spanish. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Bumba Books: Rain Forest Animals titles: It's a Chimpanzee!, It's a Jaguar!, and It's a Vampire Bat!

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(4) K-3 Bumba Books: Rain Forest Animals series. Examining one animal per volume, this early science series offers quick, overly broad surveys of rainforest animals. Colorful layouts and close-up photographs enhance simple descriptions of each creature's appearance, behavior, life cycle, and habitat. Critical thinking questions scattered throughout provide the option for a more interactive reading experience. A basic anatomy chart is appended. Also available in Spanish. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Bumba Books: Rain Forest Animals titles: It's a Chimpanzee!, It's a Jaguar!, and It's a Vampire Bat!

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(4) K-3 Bumba Books: Rain Forest Animals series. Examining one animal per volume, this early science series offers quick, overly broad surveys of rainforest animals. Colorful layouts and close-up photographs enhance simple descriptions of each creature's appearance, behavior, life cycle, and habitat. Critical thinking questions scattered throughout provide the option for a more interactive reading experience. A basic anatomy chart is appended. Also available in Spanish. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Bumba Books: Rain Forest Animals titles: It's a Boa Constrictor!, It's a Chameleon!, and It's a Red-Eyed Tree Frog!

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(4) K-3 Bumba Books: Rain Forest Animals series. Examining one animal per volume, this early science series offers quick, overly broad surveys of rainforest animals. Colorful layouts and close-up photographs enhance simple descriptions of each creature's appearance, behavior, life cycle, and habitat. Critical thinking questions scattered throughout provide the option for a more interactive reading experience. A basic anatomy chart is appended. Also available in Spanish. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Bumba Books: Rain Forest Animals titles: It's a Boa Constrictor!, It's a Chameleon!, and It's a Red-Eyed Tree Frog!

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(3) K-3 Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest series. Elementary-level texts introduce freshwater fish predators of the Amazon, exploring each creature's habitat, diets, adaptations for survival, and life cycles. Abundant labeled photographs, additional facts, and discussion questions throughout promote further engagement with the material. Squeamish readers may balk at photos of half-eaten prey. A "Science Lab" activity is appended. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest titles: Arapaima, Bull Shark, and Electric Eel.

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(3) K-3 Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest series. Elementary-level texts introduce top predators of the Amazon rainforest, examining each creature's habitat, diet, adaptations for survival, and life cycle. Abundant labeled photographs, additional facts, and discussion questions throughout promote further engagement with the material. Squeamish readers may balk at photos of half-eaten prey. A "Science Lab" activity is appended. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest titles: Giant Otter and Jaguar.

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(3) K-3 Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest series. This elementary-level introduction to harpy eagles uses simple text to examine the Amazon rainforest raptor's habitat, diet, adaptations for survival, and life cycle. Abundant labeled photographs, additional facts, and discussion questions throughout promote further engagement with the material. A "Science Lab" activity is appended. Reading list. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(3) K-3 Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest series. Elementary-level texts introduce reptilian predators of the Amazon rainforest, examining each creature's habitat, diets, adaptations for survival, and life cycles. Abundant labeled photographs, additional facts, and discussion questions throughout promote further engagement with the material. Squeamish readers may balk at photos of half-eaten prey. A "Science Lab" activity is appended. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest titles: Black Caiman and Green Anaconda.

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(3) K-3 Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest series. Elementary-level texts introduce top predators of the Amazon rainforest, examining each creature's habitat, diet, adaptations for survival, and life cycle. Abundant labeled photographs, additional facts, and discussion questions throughout promote further engagement with the material. Squeamish readers may balk at photos of half-eaten prey. A "Science Lab" activity is appended. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest titles: Giant Otter and Jaguar.

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(3) K-3 Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest series. Elementary-level texts introduce freshwater fish predators of the Amazon, exploring each creature's habitat, diets, adaptations for survival, and life cycles. Abundant labeled photographs, additional facts, and discussion questions throughout promote further engagement with the material. Squeamish readers may balk at photos of half-eaten prey. A "Science Lab" activity is appended. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest titles: Arapaima, Bull Shark, and Electric Eel.

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(3) K-3 Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest series. Elementary-level texts introduce freshwater fish predators of the Amazon, exploring each creature's habitat, diets, adaptations for survival, and life cycles. Abundant labeled photographs, additional facts, and discussion questions throughout promote further engagement with the material. Squeamish readers may balk at photos of half-eaten prey. A "Science Lab" activity is appended. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest titles: Arapaima, Bull Shark, and Electric Eel.

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(3) K-3 Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest series. Elementary-level texts introduce reptilian predators of the Amazon rainforest, examining each creature's habitat, diets, adaptations for survival, and life cycles. Abundant labeled photographs, additional facts, and discussion questions throughout promote further engagement with the material. Squeamish readers may balk at photos of half-eaten prey. A "Science Lab" activity is appended. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Apex Predators of the Amazon Rain Forest titles: Black Caiman and Green Anaconda.

Reviewer: Russell Perry

(4) K-3 Zoom In on Rain Forest Animals series. This basic introduction to the spider offers cursory facts about appearance, habitat, food, and life cycle. A simple (if choppy) text for emergent readers is adequately reflected in the accompanying photos. The appended "Quick Stats" offers two random size and weight comparisons. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) K-3 Zoom In on Rain Forest Animals series. These basic introductions to rainforest mammals offer cursory facts about appearance, habitat, food, and life cycle. Simple (if choppy) texts for emergent readers are adequately reflected in the accompanying photos. Each book's appendix includes comparisons of average weight, length, or height, some of which won't mean much to kids (e.g., at one hundred pounds, "a chimpanzee weighs as much as a toilet"). Glos., ind. Review covers these Zoom In on Rain Forest Animals titles: Chimpanzees, Jaguars, and Orangutans.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) K-3 Zoom In on Rain Forest Animals series. These basic introductions to rainforest mammals offer cursory facts about appearance, habitat, food, and life cycle. Simple (if choppy) texts for emergent readers are adequately reflected in the accompanying photos. Each book's appendix includes comparisons of average weight, length, or height, some of which won't mean much to kids (e.g., at one hundred pounds, "a chimpanzee weighs as much as a toilet"). Glos., ind. Review covers these Zoom In on Rain Forest Animals titles: Chimpanzees, Jaguars, and Orangutans.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) K-3 Zoom In on Rain Forest Animals series. This basic introduction to the rainforest snake offers cursory facts about appearance, habitat, food, and life cycle. A simple (if choppy) text for emergent readers is adequately reflected in the accompanying photos. The appended "Quick Stats" section offers size comparisons; confusingly, the diagram comparing the twenty-six-foot long snake to a thirty-five-foot school bus shows the snake coiled up. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) K-3 Zoom In on Rain Forest Animals series. These basic introductions to rainforest mammals offer cursory facts about appearance, habitat, food, and life cycle. Simple (if choppy) texts for emergent readers are adequately reflected in the accompanying photos. Each book's appendix includes comparisons of average weight, length, or height, some of which won't mean much to kids (e.g., at one hundred pounds, "a chimpanzee weighs as much as a toilet"). Glos., ind. Review covers these Zoom In on Rain Forest Animals titles: Chimpanzees, Jaguars, and Orangutans.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen

(4) K-3 Zoom In on Rain Forest Animals series. This basic introduction to the colorful rainforest bird offers cursory facts about appearance, habitat, food, and life cycle. A simple (if choppy) text for emergent readers is adequately reflected in the accompanying photos. The appended "Quick Stats" section offers random size comparisons (e.g., at 17.5 inches, "a toucan is longer than a basketball"). Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen