Deep in the forest, in the warm-wet green, 1 almendro tree grows, stretching its branches toward the sun. Who makes their homes here? 2 great green macaws, 4 keel-billed toucans, 8 howler monkeys, 16 fruit bats,
32 fer-de-lance vipers, 64 agoutis,
128 blue morpho butterflies, 256 poison dart frogs,
512 rusty wandering spiders, 1,024 leafcutter ants.
Count each and every one as life multiplies again and again in this lush and fascinating book about the rainforest.
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Kate Messner is the award-winning author of more than a dozen current and forthcoming books for young readers. Her first novel, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. , won the 2010 E.B. White Read-Aloud Medal for Older Readers, while its follow-up, Sugar and Ice (Walker/Bloomsbury, 2010), was a Junior Library Guild sel
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Giovanna Zoboli is an Italian children's book writer. In 2004, she co-founded Topipittori, a children's publishing house basedin Milan, where she currently serves as editor and art director.Her previous titles include Animal Supermarket, The Big Book ofSlumber, and I Wish I Had . . .(all Eerdmans).
