Pole to Pole

by Barbara Taylor

Published 1 May 1999
Explores the world's polar regions, focusing on their wildlife, from their social habits to the different ways each type of creature eats, sleeps, and avoids predators.

In the Rain Forest

by Barbara Taylor

Published 1 May 1999

In the Rainforest

by Barbara Taylor

Published 1 May 1999
This absorbing new series for older children explores different world regions and the people and other creatures that inhabit them. Vivid full-color photos, maps, and diagrams.

Great tropical rain forests survive in Central and South America, central Africa, southern Asia, and south-western Pacific islands. Here in words, stunning photos, diagrams, and illustrations is a survey of the awesome variety of plant and animal life that flourishes in this fragile environment.