The Great Kapok Tree
Ranked #23 in English For Beginners, Ranked #73 in Social Studies — see more rankings.
The author and artist Lynne Cherry journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illustrate her gorgeous picture book The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest (1990). One day, a man exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest’s residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how "all living things depend on one another" . . . and it works. Cherry’s lovingly rendered colored pencil and watercolor drawings of all the "wondrous and rare animals" evoke the lush... more
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The Great Kapok Tree is ranked in the following categories:
- #76 in English
- #73 in Geography
- #74 in Learning English
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