fun things to do with kids in brazil    
  Travel for Kids
   
     
    Brazil

Brazil is big, the largest country in South America, and much of the country is tropical and south of the equator. The green, yellow and blue flag of Brazil is very representative – green rain forests, yellow metals and semi-precious gems, bright blue skies. Portuguese is the official language of Brazil, but traveling around Brazil with kids, you'll find a unique mixture of South American, Indian, African and European peoples. 

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Go on an expedition up the Amazon to look for jaguars, scarlet macaws, squirrel monkeys, tapirs, caimans, river dolphins, coatis, and vampire bats. Assemble the eight different rain forest animals and set them up in a stunning diorama! (Activity book)

 

     
The Great Kapok Tree
Lynne Cherry

In the Amazon rain forest, a tree-cutter falls asleep under a spreading Kapok tree. In his dreams, a boa constrictor, monkeys, toucan and macaw, tree frog, anteater, jaguar,and sloth, all speak to the man of the wonder, beauty and importance of a single tree in the rain forest. Marvelously illustrated! (Picture book)

 

 
The Great Kapok Tree
     
We're Roaming in the Rainforest  
We're Roaming the Rainforest
Laurie Krebs, Anne Wilson

Sunrise to sunset in the Amazon rainforest – monkeys hang by their tails, sloths snooze in the trees, pink dolphins swin in the river, poison dart frogs hide under logs, otters cuddle together till they fall asleep. Beautiful two page, colorful collage illustrations. (Picture book)

 

     

Maia and her governess Miss Minton travel up to the Amazon River to Manaus, where their journey begins. Unscrupulous relatives, a vanished boy, the Xanti people, secret worlds in the jungle, magical days, this is a super adventure. (Chapter book)

 

 
     
Afternoon on the Amazon
 
Afternoon on the Amazon (Magic Tree House)
Mary Pope Osborne

The magic tree house drops Jack and Annie into a tropical rain forest. On the run from army ants, floating down the river in a dugout canoe, Jack and Annie are saved by a monkey, but will they escape an angry mother jaguar? (Easy reader)

Also, the companion research guide: Rain Forests

 

     

Discover the Amazon River (teeming with pink dolphins, caimans, and piranhas), climb up through the understory to the canopy treetops, filled with monkeys, toucans, and bats; towering above it all are ceiba trees, home for colorful macaws.  Stunning scenes with see-through layers! (Pop-up book)

 

 
3-D Explorer - Rain Forest
     
Young Pele  
Young Pele: Soccer's First Star
Lesa Cline-Ransome, James E. Ransome

Story of Pele, who became one of the greatest soccer players of all time. Pele first played soccer with other boys in his neighborhood – even without shoes, the team played every chance they could, and they won. (Picture book)

 

     
Brazil
Tara Walters

Fun facts about Brazil – history, landscape and the Amazon, most popular sport (soccer, which is called futebol), festivals, language, school and music. (Picture book)

 

 
Brazil
     
1,2,3 Suddenly in Brazil  
1,2,3 Suddenly in Brazil
Cristina Falcon Maldonado, Marta Fabrega

Take a trip through Brazil, swim on the beaches of Rio de Janerio, explore cave grottos, sand dunes and lagoons, visit a Wajapi village in the rain forest, and stand under a rainbow at Iguazu Falls. (Picture book)