Hachette India

Rainforest Warrior

Anita Ganeri

Margaux Carpentier

A fascinating tale of one of the first well-known environmental activists Chico Mendes who fought tirelessly to save the Amazon rainforest as well as fighting for people's rights.

This is the story of Chico Mendes a Brazilian rubber tapper and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest and advocated for the human rights of other rubber tappers who lived in the forest. Tragically he was assassinated for trying to protect these rights.

Grippingly written by award-winning author Anita Ganeri and vibrantly illustrated by Margaux Carpentier throughout the story we see the wonders of the Amazon rainforest and learn why it is so important that global rainforests are protected.

Tell this tale and inspire a new generation of environmental heroes who will speak up and take action to protect our natural world.

Great support material for children's study of habitats rainforests and their importance for biodiversity and helping to combat climate change

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Classification : Others
Pub Date : MAR 10, 2022
Imprint : Wayland
Page Extent : 48
Binding : HB
ISBN : 9781526314468
Price : INR 999

Anita Ganeri

Anita Ganeri is an award-winning author of children's information books. She has been a writer for 20 years, after working in-house for Usborne Publishing and Walker Books. She specialises in the natural world, religion and mythology but is always looking for new challenges. Among her many titles are the best-selling 'Horrible Geography' series for Scholastic Children's Books which won the Blue Peter Book Award for the Best Book with Facts in 2009 and the Tivy Education Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for an outstanding contribution to geographical education. Anita lives in northern England with her husband, children, dogs and cat. She enjoys reading, walking the Moors, playing tennis and dreaming of winning Wimbledon.

Margaux Carpentier

Gwendolyn Hooks (Author)
GWENDOLYN HOOKS is the author of Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas, which received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children. Hooks was born in Savannah, Georgia, and thanks to her Air Force dad, she also lived in Texas and Washington in the United States, and Italy. After teaching middle school math, Hooks decided to follow her passion to write books for children. Since then she has written several popular early readers for Stone Arch Books (Capstone), Just for You! (Scholastic), andBebop Books' (Lee & Low). Hooks lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with her husband.

Margaux Carpentier (Illustrator)
Margaux Carpentier is a painter and illustrator based in London. She works on all kind of projects, ranging from illustrated books to large scale painting and murals, and sometimes even sculptures.

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