As dawn breaks in the Amazonian rain forest, a bat ends its nocturnal hunting and a harpy eagle takes off from its perch in a kapok tree. A direct, descriptive text accompanies this lushly visual journey through the rain forest, making observations about the flora and fauna, as we move down from the emergent layer, through the upper and lower canopies, down through the bushy under story to the ground layer. The text moves smoothly, stressing the interrelatedness of all life-forms, but it is the vibrant full-color paintings that steal the show. A final full-page spread pulls the perspective back to encompass all the layers of the forest , showing the activities described in the previous pages occurring simultaneously.