Dream The Forest Wild: How Children Saved a Rainforest, Children's Eternal Rainforest, Bosque Eterno de los Ninos, Monteverde, Costa Rica, Kids' Book Project to illustrate the story, kids saving rainforest now

	Dear Visitor: This site is for kids, teachers, parents, and anyone else who knows a young person. And -- much of it is addressed to KIDS! Teacher information can be found on the Kids' Book Project, Note from Jim, Acknowledgments and Contacts pages.

"In Wildness is the Preservation of the World"

..........................---Henry David Thoreau

DREAM THE FOREST WILD
How Children Saved a Rainforest

.....By Sue Memhard with Jim Crisp, forest founding Director

is the remarkable and true story of a beautiful rainforest and its wildlife, and of children in over 40 countries who save a forest they have never seen -- in a Dream that's dreamed around the world.

To honor the children, the forest is named

El Bosque Eterno de los Niños

(affectionately called the BEN)

Called in English:
The
Children's
Eternal Rainforest

Today, after over 20 years, the Dream of the forest wild continues to inspire kids everywhere. Now, it can be YOUR turn.

Help Save Rainforest NOW

Read the STORY,

and be part of the
KIDS’ BOOK PROJECT

"Coatimundis hurrying to join the Kids' Book Project"

Dream The Forest Wild

JOIN THE KIDS' BOOK PROJECT

"Sounds like a good idea to us!"

-- Children's Tropical Forests UK

...(More CTS info & video on the BEN)

Most images on the site are CLICKABLE

Resplendent Quetzal
Flying Through the Rainforest

Courtesy of National Geographic................photo by Steve Winter

WELCOME from authors Sue and Jim

August 2010
In the Costa Rican rainforest, it's the wet season. The forest's Resplendent quetzals migrated to lower elevations back in late spring and are waiting out the rains until the dry season comes once again to their forest home.

Half of the year, this dazzling bird lives in the Children's Eternal Rainforest, in the swirling cloud mist of Monteverde, Costa Rica. The forest is also known as Bosque Eterno de los Niños –or, the BEN.

When Sue saw a quetzal she was with this fellow Jim Crisp, who had been the forest's founding Director. He told her the amazing story of how the forest came to be saved.

Sue wanted to tell everyone! So together they wrote this book. It's here on this site to celebrate the BEN and the next generations inheriting our world (YOU).

But---the story needs KIDS' ART. And so we hope you'll join the KIDS' BOOK PROJECT to illustrate the story. At the same time, you can help save more necessary forest for the BEN, which will protect the currently threatened migration of the quetzal and other amazing species. By joining the project, you'll meet some of the BEN's wiild inhabitants, have creative fun, and at the same time know that you are keeping alive the dream of a forest saved by, and for, the children of the world.

We invite you to Dream The Forest Wild. Fall in love forever with the beautiful and precious rainforest --the rainforest that belongs to you.

About Sue and Jim

.................Sue Memhard in the BEN
Co-author, Dream The Forest Wild: How Children Saved a Rainforest

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"I heartily endorse this project and hope
that it will reach thousands of children."

--Rachel Crandell
President in Memoriam, Monteverde Conservation League US

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by Sue Memhard with Jim Crisp