The Tapir Scientist

by Nic Bishop and Sy Montgomery

Book Overview

If you've never seen a lowland tapir, you're not alone. Most of the people who live near tapir habitat in Brazil's vast Pantanal ("the Everglades on steroids") haven't seen the elusive snorkel-snouted mammal, either. In this arresting nonfiction picture book, Sibert winners Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop join a tapir-finding expedition led by the Brazilian field scientist Pati Medici. Aspiring scientists will love the immediate, often humorous "you...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547815484
• ISBN13: 9780547815480
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7