Rainforests
- ISBN-10
- 0746090072
- ISBN-13
- 9780746090077
- Series
- Rainforests
- Category
- Rain forest animals
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Usborne Books
- Authors
- Lucy Beckett-Bowman, Catriona Clarke
Description
An illustrated presentation of the rainforest and its creatures and plants, and covers its products, such as soap, chocolate, bananas, and kawakawa, and the destruction of the lush habitat that results in extinction of animals such as the Bali tiger.
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