The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest
- ISBN-10
- 0152026142
- ISBN-13
- 9780152026141
- Series
- The Great Kapok Tree
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 40
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Lynne Cherry
Description
The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.
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- 1990
- 46 pages
- Paperback
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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- 2014-11-01
- 74 pages
- Paperback
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