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The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
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What if the Lorax had been successful in dissuading the Once-ler from chopping down the Truffula Trees? Cherry’s colorful drawings of the beautiful rainforest and all its inhabitants will capture any young nature lover’s heart.
A modern fable with an urgent message for young environmentalists. "Spectacular." (School Library Journal)
Lynne Cherry journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illustrate this gorgeous picture book about a man who exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest’s residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how "all living things depend on one another" . . . and it works.
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