Kid's Nature Magazines – Issue 140 – The Amazon River

The Amazon doesn't break its banks. It dissolves them. For half the year, vast stretches of rainforest live underwater, fish forage through the canopy, and a whole other world wakes up.

 Issue 140 takes curious 7–11s straight into it.

Inside this issue:

• The River That Swallows the Forest – meet the várzea, the flooded forest where fish swim between tree trunks and dolphins hunt in total darkness
• Charlie Meets a Pink River Dolphin – why she blushes bright pink, what she eats (turtles and piranhas, since you asked), and the legend that kept her safe for centuries 
• Arapaima: the Amazon's air-breathing giant – the endangered fish that surfaces for a gulp of air, and how local communities are bringing it back
• Astonishing Amazon Animal Showdown – a trumps game with seven Amazon legends, from the electric eel to the world's largest rodent
• Lazy Rivers & Crazy Rapids – a wild river board game for 2–4 players
• Amy's Amazing Amazon Adventure – ten days by boat from Belém to a Yagua village deep in Peru
• A Letter from a Hoatzin – the bird whose chicks are born with dinosaur claws
• Pull-out jaguar poster, Quiz Planet, a micro-mission inside a tree-top pond and a design-your-own-card competition

Plus Wildlife News, an Environmental Challenges board on the pressures facing the world's greatest river, and a 10-year-old's rare wild find under a bridge in Wales.

Ad-free, plastic-free, and made for kids who love real science and real stories.