Wow! Follow a bunch of kids one-week trip to Peru and the Amazon rainforest and that's what you'll say. These kids studied the rainforest for a year (by the way they are in Michigan and people from Michigan are likely to like that fact, including myself) and at the end got this trip to it.They learned amazing things -- I might be more surprised than they were since I didn't study about the rainforest. They definitely couldn't learn that just by reading books--for one thing, if they didn't go the book wouldn't exist! Just reading it you can't always visualize it--you might think they are exaggerating; that's part of the reason why they put photos in. They have to see it with their own eyes.
The most interesting part was the strange things like humongous lily pads that had razor sharp spikes on the under sides of them! At least to me, what properly would be considered interesting would be their opinions but I'm not sure who to choose to take the opinions of!
I think people should read this book because they have to know how amazing the Amazon is. Also they should read this because at the same time it explains that the rainforest is being destroyed and they need to help by not buying as much stuff that comes from it.
By the way, I had a similar experience except much nearer to home and not a rainforest. It was being at Camp Talahi, a place that I and the rest of my class at school went. I learned many things about the regular forest including building shelters just like they built thatched houses and someone (I believe it was my little sister) found a little tree frog. But that's another story that we wrote about in our Camp Talahi News.
I'm sure I'd like to read another one of the Ultimate Field Trip books, especially the Space one that I got the image of the cover of while we were looking for the image of the cover of this book that I'm talking about. That says that I really want to read all these books and whoever is reading this should too.
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