Title: Rain Forest Colors

Author: Janet Lawler and Photographs by Tim Laman

Genre: Informational

Summary: This book opens with the sentence: “learn the colors while exploring tropical rain forests”. There are ten animals; each animal is a color of the rainbow or a neutral color. Thus, it both teaches the students about the animals that can be found in the rain forest and it also teaches them about the different colors that can be found as well. There is a brief description about the animals on their page, and in the back of the book there is a fact page that gives more information on the animals.

Review: This book would be good resource for kindergarten through second grade students. I would recommend using this book a whole class read to teach the students about the animals in the rain forest and what colors can be found as well. It is developmentally appropriate for students in the younger years of elementary school. This would be an excellent book for a second grader who is working on their first research task. Overall, it is a very informative fun book.

Content Area Connection:

• Art: This is a great book to use when teaching younger students about the many different colors found in the animal kingdom.
• Science: This book is also great for teaching students about the rain forest biome and all the different types of animals that can be found in it. This book is a great segway into the types of animals in our world: mammals, insects, reptiles, and many more.