The Amazon: River in a Rain Forest (Rivers Around the World)
Grade 3-5–These overviews provide information on geologic and social history; exploration; tributaries; basins; current uses such as fishing, agriculture, and tourism; and environmental issues. In addition, each book discusses features that are unique to the waterway, such as, inAmazon, the river's importance to the surrounding rain forest, and, inGanges, the millennia-long use of the river as a sacred site. Each title includes an identical, full-page table, Comparing the World's Rivers. The clearly written texts are accompanied by several useful maps per book and sidebars in the shape of the relevant country. Though the titles will be useful for reports, teachers and librarians will have to introduce them–many of the photos, unfortunately including those on the covers, are dull and grainy, meaning that children will not gravitate toward these sources.(c) Copyright 2010.  Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc.  No redistribution permitted.--This text refers to theLibrary Bindingedition.