Fantastic Flora: The World's Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants by Staats, Ann McCallum
Fantastic Flora: The World's Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants by Staats, Ann McCallum

Fantastic Flora: The World's Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants

From deadly nightshade to the flying duck orchid, discover how some of the biggest, baddest, smelliest, and...
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Author: Ann McCallum Staats
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Fantastic Flora: The World's Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants by Staats, Ann McCallum

Fantastic Flora: The World's Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants

$51.74
Fantastic Flora: The World's Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants by Staats, Ann McCallum

Fantastic Flora: The World's Biggest, Baddest, and Smelliest Plants

$51.74
Author: Ann McCallum Staats
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From 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.

Ready 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 be 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.

Author: Ann McCallum Staats
Publisher: Mit Kids Press
Published: 05/20/2025
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9781536232837
Audience: Ages 9-12


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2025 pg. 89

About the Author
Ann McCallum Staats 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; The Secret Life of Math; and High Flyers: 15 Inspiring Women Aviators and Astronauts. She has a master's degree in education and lives in Virginia with her family.

Zo? Ingram 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 d?cor products. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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