Ages 5 to 9 years. This informative book focuses on temperate forest food chains. It looks at the plants, herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores of this habitat and how they get food energy during the various seasons of the year. The book includes information on: forest herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores; how plants make food; animal adaptation in winter; decomposition and the forest floor; dangers to forest food chains and webs.