Reading About
the Rainforest

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  • 17 Kings and 42 Elephants
    by Margaret Mahy
    Seventeen kings and forty-two elephants romp with a variety of jungle animals during their journey through a wild, wet night.

  • Aardvark's Picnic
    by Jon Atlas Higham
    When he misplaces the ants he needs for his picnic treats, Aardvark asks his friends to help him find some more.

  • Bats, Bugs, and Biodiversity: Adventures in the Amazonian Rain Forest
    by Susan Goodman
    A group of middle schoolers are followed on a week-long trip to the rainforests of Peru.

  • Crafty Chameleon
    by Mwenye Hadithi
    A chameleon bedeviled by a leopard and a crocodile uses his wits to get them to leave him alone.

  • Jungle Sounds
    Rebecca Emberley
    Pictures of jungle animals are labeled with the sounds that those animals make.

  • Junglewalk
    by Nancy Tafuri
    A little boy falls asleep after reading a book about animals in a jungle, and then he meets them all in his dream.

  • Little Gorilla
    by Ruth Bornstein
    Little Gorilla's family and friends try to help him overcome his special growing pains.

  • The Monkey and the Crocodile
    by Paul Galdone
    A retelling of one of the Indian fables relating to the former births of Buddha in which as a monkey he manages to outwit the crocodile who decides to capture him.

  • A Nice Walk in the Jungle
    by Nan Bodsworth
    Tim repeatedly tries to warn his oblivious teacher on the class nature walk through the jungle that they are being followed by a very hungry boa constrictor, until it is almost too late.

  • Rainforest
    by Edward R. Ricciuti
    The authors explain how forests come to be and how they change over time; their different layers; the insect and animal life they support; and present-day threats to them.

  • Traveling to Tondo
    by Verna Aardema
    On his way to his wedding, with his friends as attendants, a civet cat meets with extraordinary and unexpected delays.

  • Where the Forest Meets the Sea
    by Jeannie Baker
    On a camping trip in an Australian rain forest with his father, a young boy thinks about the history of the plant and animal life around him and wonders about their future.

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