Eight-year-old Omar Castillo resolved to travel someday to see the rainforests in southern Mexico about which he heard from his grandfather. He became alarmed by TV news indicating that the last rainforest had become endangered, i.e., excessive logging to increase grazing land for beef cattle, creatures such as toucans being sold as pets, changing climate, etc. Omar wrote to the President of Mexico but received no reply. The boy then resolved to walk from his home in Mexico City to Lacandon Rainforest. Omar's journey evolved into a 870-mile pilgrimage on foot with his father, an odyssey of survival and environmental activism for both boy and man. The full-color art illustrating every page of the unique documentary creates a fictional mood, but the color photograph of 11-year-old Omar on the final page expresses his personal realism about the potential impact of youth activists everywhere. (Ages 6-11)

Eight-year-old Omar Castillo fulfills his dream of visiting the endangered rain forest of southern Mexico and wins an audience with the president of Mexico to express his concern.