Quest For The Tree Kangaroo:
An Expedition To The Cloud Forest Of New Guinea
Honors Include:
2007 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
2007 Orbis Pictus Award For Nonfiction
2006 John Burroughs Honor List
Booklist Editor's Choice for 2006
School Library Journal Best Book for 2006
NSTA-CBC Selector's Choice
Named one of top ten books of 2006 for children by The Washington Post
2007 Orbis Pictus Award For Nonfiction
2006 John Burroughs Honor List
Booklist Editor's Choice for 2006
School Library Journal Best Book for 2006
NSTA-CBC Selector's Choice
Named one of top ten books of 2006 for children by The Washington Post
Publisher's description. The tree kangaroo is one of the rarest, strangest, and least understood creatures on the planet. Making its home in only one place in the world — the cloud forest of the Huon Peninsula on the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea — the tree kangaroo and its home are being threatened as the cloud forest continues to be cut and destroyed.
When scientist Lisa Dabek first encountered the tree kangaroo at the Woodland Park Zoo of Seattle, Washington, she was captivated. "They were like monkeys up in trees — but they weren't monkeys," she recalls. "They looked a little like bears — but they weren't bears. And then they had a pouch for their babies — a totally different thing from most other mammals." Her fascination continues even some twenty years after this first meeting with the cuddly creature, and her drive to understand and protect the animal has become impermeable.
Accompanied by a team of native people, Lisa, her fellow researchers, and the award-winning duo of writer Sy Montgomery and photographer Nic Bishop have trekked deep into the heart of the cloud forest on a mission to learn more about the animal. Quest for the Tree Kangaroo offers a you-were-there recounting of the group's expedition into the wild, set against the backdrop of the visually stunning Papua New Guinea landscape.
When scientist Lisa Dabek first encountered the tree kangaroo at the Woodland Park Zoo of Seattle, Washington, she was captivated. "They were like monkeys up in trees — but they weren't monkeys," she recalls. "They looked a little like bears — but they weren't bears. And then they had a pouch for their babies — a totally different thing from most other mammals." Her fascination continues even some twenty years after this first meeting with the cuddly creature, and her drive to understand and protect the animal has become impermeable.
Accompanied by a team of native people, Lisa, her fellow researchers, and the award-winning duo of writer Sy Montgomery and photographer Nic Bishop have trekked deep into the heart of the cloud forest on a mission to learn more about the animal. Quest for the Tree Kangaroo offers a you-were-there recounting of the group's expedition into the wild, set against the backdrop of the visually stunning Papua New Guinea landscape.
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Houghton Mifflin ISBN 0618496416