Poor Jungle Girl! She falls into quicksand. Jungle Boy finds her. Jungle Girl starts to sink while Jungle Boy tells her:

• where and how quicksand forms
• why people sink in quicksand
• what happens to animals in quicksand
• how people can watch out for quicksand
• what people should do if they fall into quicksand

But Jungle Girl does not sink forever. There is a happy and surprising ending. And a quicksand experiment.

For someone who has not fallen into quicksand, author-artist Tomie de Paola knows a lot about it.

From the dust jacket