Exploring the Rainforest Canopy
By Kathryn Lasky
Photographs by Christopher G. Knight
This is the story of scientist, Meg Lowman, and what she does for her job. Meg spends five days a month, in the canopy, the the very top layer of new growth. Meg studies plants, leaves, flowers, and insects. When she is not at the top of the rainforest, she is on the bottom, looking up, standing in mosquito larvae, tarantulas, salamanders, and fungi. The understory is full of stinging ants, rotten trunks, and thorns. In the canopy, there are monkeys and birds.
This book has a variety of beautiful pictures. I used this book when I taught the Island Series, by Gordan Korman, to give students background knowledge and a visual on how it was to live in the rainforest. At first, they pictured woods like in Wisconsin. We also talked about the tropical fruits that could be found, like durians. There is a glossary in the back, also, set in a 4th grade reading level so students can do some of their own research.
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