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Lush rainforests form dense jungles with multilayered canopies and heavy, year-round rainfall. This ecology book introduces beginning readers to layered jungles where emergent trees, canopy bridges, and forest floors pulsate with activity. Aided by vivid photographs, playful facts, and comic-style speech bubbles, kids will explore rainforest features like emergent layers, understories, and riverbanks, and discover how jaguars, toucans, sloths, and epiphytic orchids survive and flourish. A labeled diagram supports visual learning and deepens understanding. Includes a glossary, index, and recommended books and websites.

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Kate Riggs is a Minnesota-based editor and author of children's and young adult nonfiction books. In 2012, her book Dolphins was honored as the winner of the Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award for Transitional Nonfiction.

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