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Filled with rich, glistening colours and abundant, carefully-studied details, The Great Kapok Tree is a rainforest packed into a book.
Other than that, the only thing that could've made this better is if it were actually set in Panama. While he sleeps, the many species of animals that live in the tree (including frogs, snakes, sloths, birds, anteaters and monkeys) come down to speak to him.The lowland rainforest of its origin nation contributes to its usually massive size compared to other trees. It is to be noted that kapok trees do not necessarily bloom every year, but when they do, they look beautiful and add to the beauty of the wild.
The year 1's in the class struggled to understand some of the concepts and language such as deforestation. The beautiful illustrations really make you feel for the animals and the habitat and it opened my son's eyes to how we're all living things are dependent on each other.In the end, the man awakens and picks up his ax, starts to aim for the tree, and then suddenly turns and walks out of the forest. Text-to Teaching Connection: What is a response activity that you can do in a classroom with Children in response to the book? Successive animals, birds, insects and finally a child of the Yanomamo tribe all whisper in his ear cogent reasons for why he should not continue.
At Kidadl we pride ourselves on offering families original ideas to make the most of time spent together at home or out and about, wherever you are in the world. As the unopened fruit doesn’t sink inside the water, it is believed that the fruit of the tree floated from Latin America to Africa through the ocean. This book still rather annoyed me, though, following a bit too close to one of the lines that I find extremely afrustrating in much of the conservation literature, etc. We also learned a lot of new animals, and we loved looking at the world map, a map he's become intimately familiar with.The Great Kapok Tree has absolutely gorgeous illustrations and a beautiful message about wildlife preservation. The people who are cutting down trees in the rain forest are not going to read a children's book printed in English in the United States. The ability of the kapok to attract wildlife to the forest is one of its most notable physical characteristics.