Brazil

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)

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)

Visit a village of the Yanomama people, deep in the Amazon, where they farm crops in the jungle, hunt for food with bows and arrows, fish in the rivers, swim for fun, and celebrate a funeral with dance and song. (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)

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)

You'll see three-toed sloths sleeping in the trees in Brazil. What happens when the trees are uprooted by bulldozers? This is a marvelous pop-up story of a forest destroyed, the sloth swinging from one remaining tree ... but when the forest is re-planted, once more the sloth sways in the treetops.
(Pop-up book)

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, fun for little kids. (Picture book)

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)

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

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)