How Monkeys Make Chocolate Unlocking the Mysteries of the Rainforest

by Forsyth, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9781897066775
• ISBN10: 1897066775
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-12
• Publisher: Owlkids Books

Summary

First published in 1995 and now with a new cover, How Monkeys Make Chocolate was shortlisted for the British Columbia Library Association's Red Cedar Award, was a Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice selection and won the Canadian Science Writers Association Science in Society Children's Book Award.What do a candy bar, a glass of cola and aspirin have in common? Each is made possible by the world's rainforests. In How Monkeys Make Chocolate, internationally recognized biologist and writer Adrian Forsyth draws readers into the rainforests of South and Central America, Africa and Asia with first-hand stories and photographs of the people, animals and plants.Forsyth visits aboriginal shamans and imitates animals' behaviour to tap into their time-honoured knowledge of the rainforests' inner workings. His adventures reveal the amazing origins of familiar products such as chocolate, rubber and medicine.Exquisite photos illustrate the lush greenery and interesting lives of forest dwellers. Forsyth instills a deep wonder for the rainforests' web of life and a strong sense of the importance of conserving these forests of plenty.Ages 8-12.