The Rain Forest Storybook: Traditional Stories from the Original Forest Peoples of South America, Africa and South-East Asia

This work aims to bring alive the human voices behind a major environmental tragedy. It takes children on a fascinating journey to meet some of the peoples who live in the world's disappearing rain forests. Readers share their traditional stories, absorbing many new ideas about the natural world, their fellow human beings and even about themselves. They travel to the Amazon to hear about the mysterious transformations of Jaguar-Man; and then to central Africa to discover what happened when the Most Beautiful Song in the Forest was destroyed. The book also contains much factual information about the original forest people's ways of life.