2. This book is about Tepui, an Indian boy. He lives in a Venezuelan rain forest. Tepui and Dr. Rivero (a biologist) have one day to find a butterfly without a name. If they find the butterfly, a rich man will name the butterfly after his daughter, and buy the rain forest. Will they find the butterfly in time? This book is cool because it has interesting facts about the rain forest.


Useful to teach many skills, and rain forest conservation   May 12, 1998
 10 out of 14 found this review helpful

This book is the basis of my most recent math unit. I used it for sequencing, story problems, and as a branching of point to other rain forest literature It's chronological angle provides an excellent sequencing and timeline project and the diversity in wild life shared gives more reason to save the ever dwindling forest. Last, but not least, it can be a tool to teach all about the importance of the rain forest.


A young boy's determination to save his beautiful homeland   April 22, 1998
 7 out of 8 found this review helpful

This is a great book. At the start I thought I was headed into a story of good versus bad, where nature played the good guy and man the bad. As if things could be that simple. Instead I found an honest well-balanced story that centers on a young boy's efforts to save his home in the rain forest. Ms. George provides fascinating descriptions of the many layers of animal and human life that are engaged in the same struggle for survival. All is brought to a satisfactory conclusion with the hidden acknowledgement that it still takes one kind of green stuff to save another kind of green stuff.