One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest

Description: Today is doomsday for a young Venezuelan Indian boy's beloved rain forest and all of its wildlife--unless he and a visiting scientist can save it. "George makes drama large and small out of the minute-by-minute events in an ecosystem . . . gripping ecological theater".--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

Brief description:

"I began drawing before I could talk," says Gary Allen. "My family always knew I would become an artist, because I constantly drew pictures on the wall as high as I could reach." Gary Allen wen on to study art at the State University of New York College at New Paltz and is now a designer at The Culinary Institute of America In Hyde Park, New York. He lives in High Falls, New York, with his wife and stepson.