Fourteen Monkeys: A Rain Forest Rhyme

by Melissa Stewart (Author) Steve Jenkins (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Travel to a tropical rainforest where fourteen species of monkeys live in harmony in this playful, fact-filled book from award-winning author Melissa Stewart and Caldecott honoree Steve Jenkins. In Manú National Park in Peru, an amazing fourteen different species of monkeys live together. That's more than in any other rainforest in the world! How can they coexist so well? Find out in this lyrical, rhyming picture book that explores each monkey's habits, diet, and home, illustrating how this delicate ecosystem and its creatures live together in harmony. From howler monkeys to spider monkeys to night monkeys, young readers will love getting to know these incredible primates and seeing the amazing ways they share their forest.
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$17.99

Melissa Stewart
Melissa Stewart has written more than 200 science books for children, including Tree Hole Homes: Daytime Dens and Nighttime Nooks; the ALA Notable Book Feathers: Not Just for Flying and the SCBWI Golden Kite Honor title Pipsqueaks, Slowpokes, and Stinkers: Celebrating Animal Underdogs. She co-authored 5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books and edited the anthology Nonfiction Writers Dig Deep: 50 Award-Winning Authors Reveal the Secret of Engaging Writing. Melissa maintains the award-winning blog Celebrate Science and serves on the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators board of advisors.

Rob Dunlavey is the illustrator of In the Woods by David Elliott, which received three starred reviews, and Owl Sees Owl by Laura Goodwin, which garned four starred reviews and was named a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, among others. His artwork has been featured in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Businessweek, and the Los Angeles Times.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781534460393
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Publication date
July 06, 2021
Series
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BISAC categories
JNF051150 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Zoology
JNF003010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Apes, Monkeys, etc.
JNF013030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Concepts | Counting & Numbers
Library of Congress categories
Behavior
Monkeys
Peru
Parque Nacional del Manu (Peru)
Parque Nacional del Manu

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