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THE GREAT KAPOK TREE

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hello everybody I am back and I have another story for earthday birthday is so important in taking care of our planet is so important it deserves sorry this one it's called the Great kapok tree tale of the Amazon rainforest is interconnected forest and sky and Earth animals and plants and humans all day and on each other to make the planet survive and this is story that talks about being connected like that in the whole world being connected in many many different ways I'm going to read note from you on this page here rainforest is always hot and in that keep everything grows and grows and grows the tops of the trees in the rainforest are called the canopy the canopy is a sunny place that touches the sky the animals that live there like House of light colorful parrots fly from tree to tree monkey sleep from Branch to Branch the bottom of the rainforest is called the understory the animals that live in the understory like Darkness their silence Earl around Hanging Vine graceful Jaguar watch and wait and in this steaming environment the great kapok tree shoot up to the forest and emerges above the canopy dishes. story of a community of animals that live in one such treat in the rainforest so this is the great kapok tree I'm in cherry walked into the rainforest moments before the forest had been alive with the sound of squawking birds and Howling monkeys as the creatures washed the two men and wondered why they had come are Germans stopped and pointed to a great kapok tree smaller man took the ax he carry instruct the trunk of the tree sounds of the blowed rang to the forest the wood of the tree was very hard the man wipe off the sweat and ran down his face and neck. to the man who tired he sat down to rest at the foot of the great kapok tree before he knew it that he and hum of the forest and Mountain Tattoo contractor's lived in the kapok tree he slithered down is Trump to where the man was sleeping he looked at the gash in the treat then the huge snakes very close to the man and his in his ear yes my home with generations of my ancestors have lived a bee buzz in the sleeping man here can you lower my high dismiss kapok tree and I fly from tree to tree and flower to flower collecting pollen in this way I pollinate the trees and flowers in the rainforest you see all living things depend on one another a troop of monkeys Scamper down from the canopy of the kapok tree they chatted to the sleeping man we have seen the ways of bad you chop down one treat and come back for another the roots of Peace great trees will wither and die and there will be nothing left to hold the Earth in place when the heavy rains, the story will be washed away and the farmers will become a desert a toucan on McColl and a of the rock flew down from the canopy send a squad that you can you must not cut down this tree we have to go over the rainforest and see what happens once you begin to chop down the trees many people said Louisville and they set fires to clear the underbrush and soon the forest disappears where once there was life and Beauty only black and smoldering ruin a bright and small tree frog crawl along the edge of a leaf in a squeaky voice he piped in the man's ear everyone rainforest means ruin plaid Mini you leave many of us homeless if you chop down this great kapok tree a Jaguar have been sleeping along a branch in the middle of the tree because his spotted Code Blue send it into the dappled light and Shadows of the understory no one had noticed him now he looked down and Pat excitedly over to the sleeping man he ground is here how many birds die if you cut down where would I find my dinner fortree porcupines swim down from Branch to branch and we you know what we are animals and humans need in order to live oxygen do you know what trees produce oxygen if you cut down the destroy that which gives us all several anteaters climb down the kapok tree with their young cleaning to their backs the unstriped and either said to the sleeping man send you all your chopping down no thought for the future and surely you know that what happens tomorrow depends upon what you do today the big man tells you to chop down a beautiful tree he does not think of his own children for tomorrow live in a world without trees a three-toed sloth at Beacon climbing down from the canopy when the men first appear only now did she reach the ground plotting ever so slowly over to the sleeping man she spoke in her deep and lazy voice and you are how much is beauty worth can you live without it if you do Troy the beauty of the rainforest on what would you Feast your eyes a child from the Yanomami tribe who live in the rainforest sleeping man he murmured in his ear Senor when you awake please look upon us all with new eyes the man who woke with a star for him should the rainforest child and all around him staring with the creatures who depended upon the great kapok tree what wondrous and where animals they were the man looked about and saw the sun streaming through the canopy spots a bright light glow like Jews amidst the dark green forest strange and beautiful things to dangle in the air suspended from the great kapok tree the man smell the fragrance perfume of their flowers he felt the steamy Mist rising from the forest floor play Hurt no sound for the creatures with strangely silent the man stood and picked up his ex just won back his arm as though strike the tree suddenly he stopped he turned and looked at the animals with a child hesitated then he dropped the axe and wall out of the rainforest that is the great kapok tree why do you think the man walked out of the rainforest what do you think is going on in his mind you think he's going to think about the forest different is it going to take about the animals and the tree differently I hope so now there's a little letter note on this page from the author here's what she has to say dear readers I wrote The Great kapok tree to let the world know what happened to the rainforest creatures and to the entire planet when rainforest are destroyed I hope that after reading this book will help save the rainforest the great kapok tree is about the Amazon rainforest a tropical rainforest but we have a temperate rainforest in the Pacific Northwest of the United States that we must protect to please care for Mother Earth together we can make a difference please care from other what happens in the Amazon rainforest all the way down in South America affect stuff that happens up here what happened all the way on the other side of the world can affect our lives here everything is connected all people all plants and animals are all oceans All Rivers All Desert we are all connected and we need all of us to take care of our planet happy birthday my friend I will see you soon

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