My daughter and I are currently on rain forests in our educational pursuits, so we checked this book out. It's not a fantastic book for a younger child; there's too much information per page, and the information is above her head. However, the illustrations are bright and colorful, so we spent some time simply looking at the pictures, identifying various animals, and counting how many of each thing were on a page. One great thing about this book is that each page has a middle half page that shows you different things. My daughter loved that.

All in all, I think this is probably a decent book for older children, but not so much for a younger child to whom you just want to introduce what a rain forest is in broad terms. ( )