Reviews for The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy

The average rating for The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-08 00:00:00 Robert Partridge Kathryn Lasky's The Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Canopy is both informative and engaging (Dr. Lowman is inspiring, and I appreciate that when she is introducing her two sons to the rainforest canopy, she is first and foremost concerned with and for their safety and that they do not needlessly interfere with the rainforest's diverse ecosystems). For a rather dense non fiction offering on the science of rainforest canopy exploration and research, the presented narrative actually reads very much flowingly and generally keeps one's interest throughout (although I do find the sequence at the end where Dr. Lowman is reading to her sons before bedtime, while sweet and poignant, somewhat distracting and keep catching myself skimming and rushing). As to Christopher G. Knight's accompanying photographs, while I (personally) would prefer a combination of photographs and line-drawing like illustrations, they do provide a realistic mirror of and to the author's narrative, and I also have to wonder if my somewhat lacklustre reaction to them might be due to the fact that I am reading The Most Beautiful Roof in the World on my Kindle (which seems to make many of the photographs appear somewhat unclear and overly small).

Review # 2 was written on 2015-10-12 00:00:00 Josh Martin We first started reading this book on in October 2015, but I didn't get very far reading it aloud with our girls. They told me that they were burnt out on rainforest books. So I ended up borrowing it again and reading it on my own. It's a fast read and very informative and educational, if a bit dated (the book was first published about 19 years ago and you can see that by the clothing styles). Still, there are a lot of colorful photographs that really help to depict the information provided in the narrative. This book was featured as one of the selections for the September 2015: Rainforests discussion for the Picture-Book Club in the Children's Books Group here at Goodreads.