{"product_id":"fantastic-flora-the-worlds-biggest-baddest-and-smelliest-plants-isbn-9781536232837","title":"Fantastic Flora: The World’s Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom deadly nightshade to the flying duck orchid, discover how some of the biggest, baddest, smelliest, and strangest plants around the globe earn their reputation as masters of survival.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReady to meet some far-out flora? Leaf through this book and you’ll unearth some of the amazing adaptations that help plants thrive: Seeds that explode. Leaves that look like stones. Berries so deadly that swallowing just a few will stop your heart. A plant that eats meat, and another that pretends to \u003ci\u003ebe\u003c\/i\u003e meat—rotten meat, with a smell so rank you’ll want to plug your nose. Dig in to the science of plant survival in a botanical book blooming with lush illustrations and filled with engagingly narrated, fascinating facts about how plants flourish, even in the most extreme environments on earth. A glossary, source notes, index, and select bibliography round out the back matter for readers eager to know more.Budding botanophiles won’t be the only audience for this widely focused ramble through the plant kingdom, as the author charges up general introductions to flowers, seeds and seed banks, plants in space, and more, including basic plant parts in general, from cellular leaf structures on up, with a dozen extreme, uncommon, or sometimes downright lurid examples.\u003cbr\u003e—Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese smoothly written, chatty entries cover a great deal of material, such as scientific names and details about related plants. . . . Ingram includes both lush, striking illustrations of the plants as well as diagrams and close-ups of individual elements. . . . An attractive package that will intrigue and enlighten readers.\u003cbr\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003cb\u003eAnn McCallum Staats\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of numerous children’s books, including the Eat Your Homework series, which garnered two Junior Library Guild Selections and a Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Book of the Year; \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of Math\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eHigh Flyers: 15 Inspiring Women Aviators and Astronauts\u003c\/i\u003e. She has a master’s degree in education and lives in Virginia with her family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eZoë Ingram\u003c\/b\u003e is an artist, designer, and author. With an honors degree in industrial design for textiles and a career in graphic design and the creative arts spanning over twenty years, she primarily works with mixed media and digital applications, often combining both traditional and digital techniques. You’ll find her work on fabric, stationery, greetings cards, magazines, books, and home décor products. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Rumble. It’s the sound of your stomach begging for food. You might wander into the kitchen to grab a snack. \u003ci\u003eBrrr\u003c\/i\u003e. It’s your body shivering when the temperature drops. Maybe you snuggle into a sweater. But what about plants? When the going gets tough, plants don’t have the same options as us humans. They need a savvy way to survive in all kinds of conditions. Limited nutrients. The coldest cold, the driest dry. Cracks in sidewalks. Murky water or a moderate fire. Pests that want to eat them to death.\u003cbr\u003e   When plants face a problem, it’s not like they can run away or pack up and move somewhere else. That’s why plants thrive using brilliant—and bizarre—adaptations. They use these features to help them succeed no matter what the environment throws at them. Some have thorns to discourage hungry predators. Others scam their way close to helpful pollinators so they can reproduce. Some ask for insect assistance using chemical signals. Wherever you look, plants are masters at survival.\u003cbr\u003e   With a focus on some of the biggest, the baddest, the smelliest, and the strangest plants around the globe, the facts you’ll encounter may seem a little . . . unnatural. They’re not. Plants can’t talk or walk and don’t have a brain protected inside a bony skull, but they’ve figured out how to flourish.\u003cbr\u003e   In this book, you’ll meet plants that eat meat and one, dead horse arum, that pretends to \u003ci\u003ebe \u003c\/i\u003emeat—with a smell of rotten flesh that’s so rank you’ll want to plug your nose. Crane your neck back to marvel at plants taller than a twenty-story building; crouch down to unearth plants smaller than your toenail. Find out how—and why—certain plants live for centuries or generate enough heat to melt snow. Uncover bold vegetation that disguises itself to look like something else. Have you ever seen plants that look like stones?\u003cbr\u003e   As you leaf through this book, you’ll discover the wildest plant traits. Exploding seeds. Fireproof trunks. Deadly berries. Adaptations so strange you’ll need to know more. Get ready to dig into the sensational science of plant survival!","brand":"MIT Kids Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305136705765,"sku":"NP9781536232837","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781536232837.jpg?v=1767726713","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/fantastic-flora-the-worlds-biggest-baddest-and-smelliest-plants-isbn-9781536232837","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}