Imaginations will soar from the forest floor, up through the canopy and back
down again, following the circle of life in
this clever adaptation of the song “The Green Grass Grew All Around." The jungle comes alive as
children
learn about a
wide variety of the animals (jaguars, emerald tree boas, leafcutter ants, sloths, poison dart frogs,
toucans, and bats)
and plants (kapok trees, liana vines, and bromeliads) living in the lush Amazon rainforest. Delve even
deeper into the
jungle using sidebars and the three-page “For Creative Minds" educational section.
This non-fiction picture book with a cuddle factor and rhyming text includes a
3-page For Creative Minds section in the
back of the book and a 23-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. The Rainforest Grew
All
Around is vetted
by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers
with
time-saving
lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based
learning to help
build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and
dual-language
programs. The
interactive ebook reads aloud in both English and Spanish with word highlighting and audio speed
control
to promote oral
language skills, fluency, pronunciation, text engagement, and reading comprehension. Tap animals and
other things that
make noise to hear their sounds.
Author: Susan K. Mitchell
Susan is a children's author with many hats in her collection: author, mom, wife, pre-school teacher,
and Spanish teacher. Susan loves creating a silly world of words for kids. The idea of Kersplatypus
quite literally came from a word she made up when her youngest daughter fell down one day. Surrounded by
kids all day, every day, she has no shortage of story ideas. Susan is also the author of two other
picture books: The Rainforest Grew All Around and Stone Pizza. She has also written more than fourteen
non-fiction chapter books for older readers on topics ranging from entertainment. to architecture, to
animals. Susan, her husband, and two wonderful daughters live outside of Houston with their dog and two
crazy cats.
Illustrator: Connie McLennan
Award-winning illustrator Connie spent years as an advertising illustrator before venturing into the
world of children's picture books. Before writing and illustrating The Forest in the Trees, she also
illustrated Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls; The Rainforest Grew All Around; River Beds:
Sleeping in the World's Rivers; Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean; and Octavia and her Purple Ink Cloud
for Arbordale Publishing. A fine artist as well, Connie is married with one grown son and lives in
northern California.
Book Details:
- Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
- Format: Paperback
- Print length: 32 pages
- Dimensions: 21.59 x 0.64 x 24.77 cm
- Reading age: 5 - 8 years old
- Publication date: June 2010
- ISBN: 9780977742387
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