Central and South America Reading List

This is what we read to complement our Classical Conversations studies on South America. In no particular order:


Atlas of South America (Foster)
Explore South America (Kalman)
Monkeys of Central and South America (Martin)

Rain Forest Animals (World Book Encyclopedia)
Lands of Grass (Fowler)
Red Eyed Tree Frog (Bishop)
So Say the Little Monkeys (Van Laan)
The Umbrella (Brett)
Central America (People and Places)
Cities of Blood (Ackroyd)- we just looked at some pictures
Love and Roast Chicken (Knuston)
The Inca (Takacs)
The Maya (Takacs)
Montezuma and the Fall of the Aztecs (Kimmel)
The Boy Who Wouidn't Obey (Rockwell)
Aztec, Inca and Maya (DK)-mostly looked at the pictures
Machu Pichu (Somervill)
Score One for the Sloths (Lester)
Amazon Basin ( Reynolds)
Exploration into Latin America (Alda)
Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, Said the Sloth (Carle)
The Great Kapok Tree (Cherry)
A True Book (Brazil)
A True Book(Venezuela)

We also learned the Geography Songs pertaining to Central and South America, played
with South American puzzles, looked at videos of Sloths on youtube.