Authors' Note

Our narrative was inspired by a book written by Kathryn Lasky called The Most Beautiful Roof in the World. This book is about a rainforest scientist, named Meg Lowman, who is studying the biodiversity in the rainforest of Belize. Since we have never been to the rainforest before, we made sure to conduct research by reading The Most Beautiful Roof in the World and also researching on the internet. This allowed us to include many descriptive details in our narrative. 

We wrote our narrative from the perspective of Meg's son James, because we wanted to tell the story from a seven year old’s perspective, and also because if we wrote it from another character's perspective, it wouldn’t show the funny vibe that we were looking for. This point of view helps the reader understand how a seven year old brain would process falling off a bridge and getting a concussion. Throughout the story we carefully chose different phrases including concrete language and sensory details to convey the feeling of being a seven year old 57 feet high in the rainforest canopy.  For example when we write  “I quickly flip off the bridge like spiderman. It feels like I am in the movie, soaring through the sky.” and “We are high in the canopy when I think it would be funny to flip my harness around to look like a diaper.” We chose these specific words and phrases because they really explain how the brain of a seven year old would compare normal seven year old things to the amazement of the rainforest. 

Our purpose of writing this story is for your enjoyment, and to experience the fun of being 7 all over again. But now you are a seven year old high in the canopy, and not just at home watching spiderman. We hope this story made you laugh just as it did for us!