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Chn were able to use different textures to resemble the parts of the rainforest that they were drawing. Maya said, "We shouldn't take the ecosystem of other animals because if they took our ecosystem, we wouldn't be happy. Each page is full of details to keep my little guy's eyes occupied while I read -- although not quite enough for the length of the text, which I usually have to cut shorter and shorter as we get through the book. It was recommended reading for his lesson on South America and it's all about saving the rain forests. The animals that depend on the tree appear to the man on his dreams and tell him why he shouldn't cut it down.
We discover what a kapok tree is (they had never heard of it), where it grows (rainforest), where the rainforests are (social studies), and the animals/insects in the rainforest (science). Also, I am all for the message of conservation--this one wasn't too heavy-handed, but still will help raise children's awareness that it is important to preserve nature. One by one, the animals and one indigenous child come to plead with the man to spare the tree, each offering up one of the many reasons trees are needed. Also it did a great job of explaining the different levels of the rainforest as well and what animals lived in each level! Lulled by "the heat and hum of the forest" the other woodcutter falls asleep beneath the Great Kapok Tree.The name ‘kapok’ comes from the cotton-like pile acquired from the seed pods of these trees, which is a Malay-derived name and is known by many other names in different regions. I loved the message of respecting nature and thinking of the bigger picture instead of just one's immediate needs. He considers what the animals have told him, and decides to leave the tree standing, dropping his axe and departing from the rainforest a changed man. The Ceiba Pentandra tree of tropical rainforests is famous for various reasons and is cultivated on a large scale for production.
The book is dedicated to Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper trying to protect the rainforests, who was murdered in 1988. I mean, as a kid I always though, well, gosh, OF COURSE I want to save the whales, of course I wouldn't cut down trees, of course I wouldn't hunt elephants!Furthermore it enables them to form a personal opinion on the global issue and give arguments for both sides of the argument as to whether or not the man should cut the tree down. Then the birds come down from the canopy and, again, they don't say, "We need this particular tree," but, "When you chop down the trees, then people will set fire to the underbrush to clear the land, and that's bad.
However, the large color illustration from the book that accompanied this review piqued readers' interest and paved its path as a best-seller.Cherry's take home message though is that if enough people learn about the diversity of the forest, maybe it can be saved. She said that Cherry was "jumping on the environmental bandwagon" but, actually, for years, Cherry had been leading the bandwagon. Kimberly Olson Fakih in the Los Angeles Times praised it for its "splendid paintings in tropical colors" but said the story was undermined by "soap-box oratory". The trees’ roots are said to reach the underworld, while the giant tree is upheld the world from above. It was written and illustrated by Lynne Cherry and was originally published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1990.
The siren of syzygy: A textual hermeneutic study of the embrace of the anima/animus in Yucatec Maya culture as seen through the myth of La Xtabay (Thesis). The first printing of 15,000 copies sold out within a few weeks after the book's release, [2] by 1995, it had sold a quarter-million copies, and it has now sold over a million copies including many foreign language translations. The animals remind the man that the tree is apart of their life and some of the animals live in the tree. Also, in the daylight, the kapok tree provides food and shelter for several different species like monkeys, frogs, birds, and various insects.And then a little boy, a noble savage "rain forest child" from the Yanomamo tribe who lives in that forest, approaches the man, apparently buck naked, and says, "Hey, wake up and look at us.
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