El Gran Capoquero / The Great Kapok Tree : Un Cuento de la Selva Amazonica / A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest (Hardcover)

from hhuget

The Great Kapok Tree is a fiction story about rainforest animals who try to stop a man from cutting down their trees. The details illustrations give life to the story as well as the descriptive language. This story could be used in language arts as well as science, as it deals with environmental ...

from t1bclasslibrary

A man has been instructed to cut down a kapoc tree in the rainforest by his boss. He begins, but takes a nap because he is tired. While he sleeps, all the animals that live in the forest (and one native) whisper in his ear about why they need the tree. He looks at them after waking up, drops his ...

from jhill06

Genre: Fantasy/Informational Critique: This a a good example of a fantasy book because of the actions of the animals in the story. They all took turns trying to convince the man to leave them alone, and that is impossible. It is an informational book too though, because it is full of information ...

from lauraklandoll

This is the story of animals saving their rain forest. When a human tries to cut down a great Kapok tree, they convince him not to. I liked this book very much. It went straight to the point, don't cut down the rain forest. I almost hear the talking animals as they convince the human, while he sl...

from missmichelle

Age Appropriateness: Primary Genre: In this book the rain forest animals talk to a man sleeping by a tree, which makes this story fit into the fantasy category. The author creates a imaginative world with believable characters to get the message of the importance of saving the rain forest across....