Title: Quest for the Tree Kangaroo- an expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
Author: Sy Montgomery
Photographs by: Nic Bishop
Date of publication: 2006
Publishing Company: Houghton Mifflin Books
Awards: Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
Genre: Non-Fiction
Subgenre: Informational
Theme: A photographic journal searching for the rare tree kangaroo in New Guinea
Primary Characters: Sy Montgomery
Secondary characters: the crew
Classroom Use: good photographic book of a search through New Guinea’s rainforest looking for the rare Matschie tree kangaroos and the strive to help them from becoming expired.
Summary: The book gives a pictorial journey/memoir of the author and her crew’s adventure into the Cloud Forest of New Guinea. They travel through the forest to find Matschie tree kangaroos. They hope to capture, study, exam, and release them back into the wild. They also tag them with monitors so that they can be tracked in case of emergency and give them help if needed. Their goal is to help them from being extinct. Very informational.
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