Who Grows Up in the Rain Forest?

• Ages: 7-9
• Publisher: Picture Window Books
• Author: Theresa Longenecker 
• Illustrator: Melisssa Carpenter

Illustrated:
This book talks about all of the baby animals that grow up in the Rain forest. The book describes animals that grow up with their parents and others that grow up on their own. All of the animals in the Rainforest have different types of families. Some of the baby animals talked about in the book are a chick, baby gibbon, and a cub. There are also did you know sections in the book that describe facts about the differnt animals.


Teachers can talk about how animlas grow up and the ways that they are born during a science lesson. Teachers can also incorperate their own students into the lesson. A teacher can talk about how everyones home life is different and how children have different types of families.

A lesson plan I found talks about different types of families.  A book that goes along with this lesson is All Kinds of Families.  A teacher can read these books simultaneously and talk about animal families and their students families.