Washoe County Library System

Illustrated guide to the plants, animals, and insects found in the world's tropical rain forests.

Colin Tudge's The Secret Life of Trees: How they Live and Why they Matter explores the hidden role of trees in our everyday lives - and how our future survival depends on them. What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. Yet while the stories of trees are as plentiful as leaves in a forest, they are rarely told. Here, Colin Tudge travels from his...

Follows the changing seasons in a forest as trees and animals are nourished and are dependent on each other.

"Pine forests sees how large and small animals - from the moose, the largest hoofed animal in North America, to the chipmunk, the small rodent that fully utilizes the towering pines - have adapted to these environments"--On container.

"Color photos and simple text describe animals and their adaptations to a rain forest habitat"--Provided by publisher.

Briefly describes rainforests, telling where they are found and what lives there, particularly in the upper levels known as the canopy.

Describes the role of an oak tree in the ecology of the Pennsylvania forest in which it lives.

Forests are biomes in which trees are the main life form, but what makes a forest deciduous? Students will explore these colorful woodlands that change with the seasons.

Introduces the plants of the rain forest, discussing both the forest floor and the treetops and examining how plants interact with the animals and provide food and other products.

A child visitor observes as one tiny scratch in a tree develops into a home for a variety of woodland animals over many years, even after the tree has fallen.