Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree

Description

Deep in the forest, in the warm-wet green, 1 almendro tree grows, stretching its branches toward the sun. Who makes their homes here? 2 great green macaws, 4 keel-billed toucans, 8 howler monkeys, 16 fruit bats, 32 fer de lance vipers, 64 agoutis, 128 blue morpho butterflies, 256 poison dart frogs, 512 rusty wandering spiders, and 1,024 leaf-cutter ants. Count each one as life multiplies again and again in this lush and fascinating book about the rainforest's abundant beauty and the wonderful multiplicity of life sustained by just one almendro tree.

Kate Messner is the award-winning author of Over and Under The Snow, Up In The Garden And Down In The Dirt, Over And Under The Pond, Over And Under The Rainforest, How To Read A Story, and The Brilliant Deep, as well as more than a dozen other books for young readers. Kate lives on Lake Champlain with her family. When she's not writing, she loves spending time outside - cross country skiing, hiking, swimming, and digging in her gardens.

"With a mix of math, literature, and science, this title has broad audience appeal."-School Library Connection SB&F Award of Excellence "Beautiful."--Imagination Soup "Enlightening..descriptive and poetic."--School Library Journal