Over in the Jungle A Rainforest Rhyme

• Ages 3-7
• Publisher: Dawn Publications
• Author: Marianne Berkes 
• Illustrator: Jeanette Canyon

Illustrated 

Over in the Jungle A Rainforest Rhyme is great for young kids! The book is based off of the 19th century song "Over in the Medow".  This childrens book starts off in the rainforest where the reader meets a marmoset.  On each page the reader will meet a new animal counting each time.  The last page ends in the den of ten monkeys.  The illistrations in this book are un like any other.  All of the animlas are made from polymer clay and then photographed.  In the back of the book the layout switches and the chilren can veiw the rainforest from top to bottom and find all of the animals they have met along the way.  The book also includes a Song Over in the Jungle.  There is also a spot in the book to learn more information about each animal.  

This is an example of the Polymer Clay animals

              






In the classroom teachers can have students make up their own rhyme or song about animals in the rainforest.  The children would have to do their research so that they know what each animal is what the animal looks like and where they life in the rainforest.  A teacher can also integrate music into this lesson by talking about rythem in music and how the book is based off of a song.  If a teacher also wants to integrate art into a lesson with this book, chilren could make their own animals out of clay.