![]() Do the monkeys live in the tree? They don't say that. The snake says, "Generations of my ancestors have lived in this tree." The bee says, "Hey, I pollinate things?" The monkeys say, "If you chop down this tree, you're going to chop down another one," an unintentional lesson in the slippery slope fallacy. ![]() The animals all speak English except for the word "Senhor," the Portuguese word for "Mister", so it's a wonder the presumably Brazilian man understands them at all. The pictures are beautiful, the words are true, and the message is true, and it's a good message, but who is this book written for? The people who are cutting down trees in the rain forest are not going to read a children's book printed in English in the United States. While he's asleep, various animals come and lecture the crap out of this guy about how chopping down trees in the rain forest is bad. Two men go into a forest, one of them points at this kapok tree, and leaves, and the other one takes an axe and starts cutting it down, then gets tired and goes to sleep. ![]()
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