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Plant Attack!

The Fascinating Ways Flora Defends Itself

March 11, 2025 | Children's hardcover
ISBN: 9781459837973
$21.95
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Description

Just like people and animals, plants need to defend themselves.

They can't scream or run away from danger, but many have developed surprisingly cool and courageous ways to keep themselves safe from pesky bugs, hungry animals and even large-clawed crabs. Plants can stab, poison, drown and even suffocate their predators. Discover the corpse flower, which smells like a combination of rotting wounds, garlic, cheese and sour sweat. Then there is the touch-me-not balsam that explodes, flinging anything that touches it through the air. Plant Attack! The Fascinating Ways Flora Defend Themselves explores 15 different plants and the unique, and sometimes bizarre, ways they defend themselves from predators, including us.

Praise for Erin Silver:

?"Enthralling...Empowers readers to understand their own human coping mechanisms, while colorful, detailed images soaked in softly muted earth tones build a base of strong general knowledge. The challenge for readers young and old will be to see who says 'ew' first! A thoroughly engaging, fact-filled book with audacious and memorable animal responses to predators. A must-have for every library."--School Library Journal, starred review for Mighty Scared

About this Author

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 ThemselvesIn 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.

ISBN: 9781459837973
Format: Children's hardcover
Pages: 32
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2025-03-11

Reviews

"McLaughlin's bright and lively digital illustrations depict all the plants on the opening spread. At times, the artwork personifies both flora and fauna, to readers' delight. Entertaining."

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