This Place Is Wet

Can you imaging living in a place where there is so much water some houses need to be built on stilts to protect them when the river rises? Or where it is so wet that some plants can grow on the sides of trees with their roots gathering water from the air? In this book you'll find out all sorts of things about what it's like to live in the rain forest of Brazil. Try to imagine living there!

Focuses on the land, ecology, people, and animals of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil, presenting it as an example of a place where there is so much water that some houses need to be built on stilts.