The Vanishing Rainforest

• Ages: 7-10
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
• Author: Richard Platt
• Illustrator: Rupert van Wyk's 
  
  
  Fiction
  In this children's book the Brazilian Rain forest is vanishing.  The books focus's on a girl names Ramaema.  On her walk home one day she hears the sound of the nabe.  The nabe were the white people who were taking away the forest she lived in.  The reader finds out if there is a soulution that can be made and if Ramaema's home will be saved.  Children will love the whimsical illistrartions that are done in acrylics.  

In the classroom a teacher can use this book during a history lesson.  The class can talk about other times in history in which others take over the land where people were already living. During the Indian Removal Act, in the 19th century, Andrew Jackson forced many Indians off of their land and out of their homes.  Children could learn how to use a Ven Diagram to compare the two times in history by finding a book about the trail of tears and reading both in class.