Reading AMOAKO AND THE FOREST, Author: Deborah Cowley, Photos: Kathy Knowles. The book is about a Ghanaian forester named Amoako. He tells us about his job with a legal logging company. He explains how trees are chosen, how they are felled, the dangers of the work, and how logs are taken to the timber yard to make furniture. He says they never cut trees on Friday because it is a taboo in their culture. He also shows that they plant new trees to replace the ones they cut, and they use leftover wood so nothing is wasted.