The solid back matter includes source notes. Christy's digital illustrations nicely support the text. A final spread depicts the levels of a Peruvian rain forest and the various creatures that inhabit the environment. Lang describes her personal encounter with 'Canopy Meg' when Lowman served as a guide for a 2017 citizen-science trip to a rain forest in Peru. Relevant information about rain forests appears in leaf-shaped text boxes. Nearly every spread features a direct quotation, which is highlighted in a different color typeface. Lang's poetic text showcases engaging language, alliteration, and appropriate metaphors. Climbing ropes were succeeded by the first canopy walkway, and later, a raft placed on the treetops in Cameroon, Africa. She graduated from Sydney University with her PhD in Botany, and then explored the rain forests. In college, Lowman faced sexism, but she persevered. The narrative introduces her as Meg, a shy child with a passion for the natural world. She invented new ways to study trees and their leaves: by exploring their canopies. 1953), a white American biologist, turned a childhood fascination with leaves into a career of rain forest exploration, education, and conservation. PreS-Gr 3-This title spotlights a pioneering female scientist. Working closely with Meg Lowman, author Heather Lang and artist Jana Christy beautifully capture Meg's world in the treetops. She studied, invented, and persevered, not only creating a future for herself as a scientist, but making sure that the rainforests had a future as well. Male teachers would not let her into their classrooms, the high canopy was difficult to get to, and worst of all, people were logging and clearing the forests. But she encountered challenge after challenge. As a scientist, Meg set out to climb up and investigate the rain forest tree canopies- and to be the first scientist to do so.

The colors, the branches, and, most of all, the leaves and mysterious organisms living there. Meg Lowman was always fascinated by the natural world above her head. Meg's perseverance and creativity allowed her to achieve this goal, but when this fantastic ecosystem started to disappear, Meg needed to act quickly. Meg Lowman was determined to investigate the marvelous, undiscovered world of the rainforest treetops.

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