Erin Silver

Gebundenes Buch

Plant Attack!

The Fascinating Ways Flora Defends Itself

Illustrator: Mclaughlin, Julie

Beschreibung

These plants put up a fight! Plants can't scream or run away from danger, but they do have some tricks up their stems. The corpse flower smells like, you guessed it, rotting wounds, and the touch-me-not balsam explodes! Explore 15 plants that can stab, poison, drown or use other unique and sometimes bizarre ways to defend themselves from predators, including you!

Autor

Erin Silver is an award-winning children's author and freelance writer. Her books for children include Rush Hour: Navigating Our Global Traffic Jam (Blueberry Award winner), Sitting Shiva (Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor, Vine Award finalist, TD Canadian Children's Literature Award finalist), Good Food, Bad Waste: Let's Eat for the Planet (long listed for the 2024 AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books), Mighty Scared: The Amazing Ways Animals Defend Themselves, In It to Win It: Sports and the Climate Crisis and All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet. Erin lives in Toronto. Julie McLaughlin is an award-winning illustrator of numerous children's books, including Pride Puppy!, Little Cloud, and Why We Live Where We Live , winner of the 2015 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction. She also illustrated three books in the Orca Think series: What Animals Want, Breaking News and Fresh Air, Clean Water. Her work with various editorial, advertising and publishing clients can be seen around the world. Julie grew up on the Prairies and now resides on Vancouver Island.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orca Book Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Altersempfehlung: 3 bis 5 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 227mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781459837973
• ISBN-10: 1459837975
• Artikelnr.: 71206571