A Walk Through the Rainforest

By Author / Illustrator

Martin Jenkins, Vicky White

Genre

Environment & Nature

Age range(s)

Publisher

Walker Books

ISBN

9781529518542

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

06-06-2024

Synopsis

A spectacular tour of the Taman Negara rainforest, with a convincing, affecting case to make - underscored by extraordinary illustrations.

Tropical rainforests are amazing places. More kinds of animals and plants live in them than live anywhere else in the world. This one is in Malaysia, in South East Asia. Let's go and take a look... So begins this magnificent new book from conservation-biologist Martin Jenkins and fine artist Vicky White, the award-winning team behind Can We Save the Tiger? and Ape.

The breathtakingly-detailed illustrations are packed with life, from hornbills to gibbons, bats and the much-loved Asian Elephant, while the conversational text expertly weaves in complex biology to show young readers both how life in the jungle is intrinsically linked, and why we must work to protect it. With a powerful environmental message, this is a tour de force from two remarkable talents - and a perfect choice for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris' The Lost Words, or Ben Rothery's Hidden Planet.

"Informative but never patronising, this book is guaranteed to instil in young readers a sense of the beauty and fragility of nature." The Independent on Sunday on Can We Save the Tiger?

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Reviews

Maria

A Walk Through the Rainforest is a fascinating book exploring rainforests. The author has cleverly written this so the reader feels that they are there, in the rainforest, with the sounds around them. The illustrations further support this by providing detailed, often close up, images of the habitat and the living creatures.

Children, and adults, will be fully engaged and immersed into a world of fascinating facts as this book is crammed full of information; a particular favourite of the childrens was the contents of elephant poo!

Through the use of the text, illustrations, maps and identification grids, this book acts as a fantastic learning resource, particularly when learning about habitats.

48 pages / Reviewed by Maria Faithorn, teacher